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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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 Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 4:36 am Post subject: Are Women The Real Misogynists? |
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Seeing as the topic of feminism has been all the range here these past few weeks:
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The really bad girls
Those who collude in the public degradation of gifted young women are beneath contempt
Who doesn't love to speculate about good girls gone bad? Well, people who like and respect women don't. Nor do people who recognise that the rules prescribing what constitutes a "good" female are bigoted and hypocritical. A good girl is charming and comely, and never does anything to upset the status quo. A good girl does not dare to challenge the position society has put her in. A good girl is the ideal helpmeet for a man, with neither a hair nor a thought out of place.
So it's a nasty shock for reactionaries to see Lindsay Lohan's latest police mugshot, in which she sends a fabulous look of "Yeah, I've been arrested. So what?" straight through the camera into the miasma of prurient dreck that is pop culture. So Lohan likes a drink. What's the problem? Women get drunk, fall over and hit the double standard face first. Further proof that womankind is pushing things a step too far is the news that Britney Spears acted brattishly at a recent photoshoot, wiping her hands on one dress and letting her pooch defecate on another.
Again, so what? Male power players have been abusing subordinates ever since they created the first hierarchies. Nobody points out that male violence is destroying the world. A drunk young rich guy is a crazed creative genius and cultural messiah who lives on the edge; his female counterpart is a sad strumpet. Or, in Britney's case, it's all put down to her ongoing "meltdown". |
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It is women (writers and readers) who are enjoying and encouraging the exposure of Lohan's drink and drugs hell or Spears's identity crisis, while saving space for a snide comment about their outfits. It is women who are getting off on other women's difficulties, while men in power carouse, abuse (and self-abuse) with impunity.
Who are the real "bad girls"? Not Lohan or Spears. The gossip magazines may be as punchy as a dose of Splenda, but they offer evidence that women have obediently taken on the values of a woman-hating world. We must recognise the part women play in the degradation of women: the ultimate betrayal. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 5:17 am Post subject: |
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| Oh those poor babies Lindsay and Britney. Women are so horrible. Wah wah wah. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 5:31 am Post subject: |
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| I think the article is tripe, but some women certainly do buy into the"the values of a woman-hating world." When they do, they know how to hurt with greater effect than most men too. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:19 am Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| I think the article is tripe, but some women certainly do buy into the"the values of a woman-hating world." When they do, they know how to hurt with greater effect than most men too. |
Had a teacher in junior high school and I interviewed him for a journalism project. Don't know why the question occurred to me but I asked him whether fights between guys are harder to break up or the ones between girls. No hesitation.
"Guys tend to stare really hard at each other for a while, then one will push the other one on the shoulder. Takes a while before the first punch is thrown. Girls just jump in, with fingernails and hair-pulling and smashing faces in the sidewalk."
Years later, I thought it might be a good argument for putting women in combat positions in a war zone ...
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:37 am Post subject: |
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| Two words: high heels. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:32 am Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
| Two words: high heels. |
Always wondered what they were for. Smashing stuff, huh? Cool. |
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