I was gifted a once-a-day Shakespearean Insult calendar last Christmas. Since then I have enjoyed William Shakespeare’s daily insults. I was motivated to read each quote. I didn’t want to forget and let a whole month slip by. Once I planned to memorize all of Shakespeare’s sonnets and only got up to three so I didn’t want to let Mr. Shakespeare down once more. I suppose the makers of the Shakespearean Insult calendar had a sense of humor on International Women’s Day when the Shakespearean quote read:
For women are shrews,
both short and tall. (Henry IV, Part 2)
I was then curious to see how the world was fairing on this International Women’s Day and could only guess to how Shakespeare would see the women of today. I’ve noticed that many women are either too busy or just unmoved to march and mostly make a spectacle of themselves with their funny hats and silly slogans. Perhaps this isn’t the march for Civil Rights or the movement to end slavery. Maybe these issues have been won and it is still illegal to pay women less for the same work and there wasn’t a male movement to perpetuate a “Rape Culture” (whatever chimerical delusion that is).
It is remarkable to see the most rabid (calling themselves “feminists” when other saner women won’t even mark themselves with that label). Many of us can’t help but stand back and witness those misguided fools “eat each other alive” by taking issues on such things as their silly “pussy hats” because the hats that they are wearing are the wrong social justice warrior color. I am reminded again that truth can be stranger than fiction. Recently someone questioned that a story I wrote wasn’t realistic and the characters in it didn’t appear to act true to life, but when it was my turn to speak I explained that this piece of writing was autobiographical. Hopefully today will just be another sad story that more reasonable college students in the future will no doubt believe ever happened and miraculously their professors will have their own autobiographical stories and indeed say it was a tale of woe.
It was only recently that I took note of these people. I think with the advent of social media they are able to amplify their voice many times their actual numbers and then businesses fall under the weight of these squeaky wheels before the masses that didn’t have a problem with any of it. Everyone was forced to bend backwards on the smallest factions of society. There is no reason to victimize people, but sweeping changes for the few or the one shouldn’t overpower the masses. That is the tyranny of a ruling class and I thought free people didn’t want to be ruled.
Some of these “progressive” people are happy playing with their “good guy” status, but I believe a sleeping giant has been awoken by these absurdities, absurdities not of a passing storm, but of a monumental quake. I knew the lines were drawn when a feminist took aim at my childhood and declared Ms. Pacman sexist because a yellow circle was wearing a bow and a little lipstick.
I also took note of a poster today named: AssAssIn46. They had some interesting thoughts that I had hoped to enlist:
What I've come to realize over time when it comes to things like objectification, stereotypical portray or men and attitude towards men in the workplace is that men don't give a shit about the former and suck it up when it comes to the latter.
I'm not saying all women just complain about it or they're inherently inclined to complain about it. I am saying that the feminist's narrative is that they are victims, even in the small of things which are in no way related to gender. Somehow the idea of being sexist towards women has given them a mindset of a victim.
You especially see this when you talk to older women compared to younger women and young girls. Older women understand that society has certain aspects to it which due to circumstances and not individualistic ideals, ends up affecting individuals in a discriminatory manner without the issue being related to gender.
They also understand that things like objectification are done for various purposes like business and entertainment and that there is nothing wrong with it because people are able to separate perfume adverts to people in real life. What younger women have been told and what I've learnt from personal experience in the school system is that people are taught ideas, not explanations behind them e.g. objectification of women = bad. Why is it bad? Of course that isn't covered.
Ask any young girl or women (generalizing for simplicity) and they'll tell you objectification of women is bad but they won't explain why. Ask an older women and they'll often say "let men enjoy it, I don't care" which seems to be the attitude that men have towards objectification of women, "let women enjoy it, I don't care". The fact is, due of years and years of misinformation and what is essentially indoctrination of children in schools, women have been taught that objectification is inherently bad and the fault for that lies with feminism.
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