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calendar   Sunday - August 05, 2012

I don’t know where to begin

Sometimes I find things online that I disagree with so damn much it’s staggering. I sit in front of the PC shaking my head, going “huh??” and wondering just what planet these people live on ... and then it hits me that there’s only one answer to that question, which makes me sad because it shows just how far apart some of the sides are ... and never the twains shall meet.

the “point” which labors under a false assumption:

As women have moved into traditionally male spaces, the argument goes, men have begun to feel unneeded, redundant, disposable. Rather than adapt, many guys are disappearing into the online worlds of porn and gaming where they can, at least for a while, feel powerful once more. If we want men to “show up” again, the ladies need to go back to feigning helplessness –- or so the conservative argument goes.

the “counter-point” comment which did NOT start a rational and reasoned discussion:

This article shows how stunted the male voice in gender studies really is. Can we imagine an article that stated there was a nation-wide organization to teach women to give amazing hand-jobs, hand-jobs that made men come for 15 minutes . . . and that this was the way for women to be socially empowered, happy, confident and successful?

Framing men’s empowerment in terms of pleasing women is equally as erroneous as framing women’s empowerment in terms of how to please men.

The article, at the web site Jezebel, which has long had the power to annoy me: How a Woman’s Orgasm Can Save a Man ... because, now that women have nearly achieved full equality, men can only find some sort of self-worth by being (literally) digital vibrators.

Oy vey. At least there’s a link to a pretty decent country video


On the third hand, this is the same Cosmopolitan Magazine kind of web page blog that tells me in no uncertain terms that to be human is to be their kind of feminist, or else: “If you are not a feminist ... then you are a bad person. Those are the only options. It also puts me in my place for being critical of gold medal winning Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas because of her hair??? I wasn’t aware that there was any such issue, and I find it difficult to accept. It’s the Olympics. I’ve seen some godawful hairstyles on nearly every athlete. Who cares? I’m proud of Miss Douglas for her achievement, but if someone asked me to comment on her appearance her choice of hairstyle worn during competition would be about the last thing I’d notice.


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