Saturday, March 24, 2012

The thing is...

These kind of quotes are piling up daily, as if a dam has broken and all the sexism and hatred is flooding out for all to see.  These attitudes didn't suddenly spring up, they have been seeping up from deep underground for decades.  Fear of losing imagined dominance, fear of being emasculated, fear of powerful women who do not need men to live their lives....  if only those damned hussies would just get back into the kitchen....



(via Steve Bates)

6 comments:

Steve Bates said...

It's as if the "war between the sexes," never an amusing concept in the first place, has somehow become quite literally transformed into a "war on women." I doubt the men who say these things were ever any different in their attitudes from what they are now, but for some reason they now think it is socially acceptable to be a misogynist. Our task is to teach them otherwise, the hard way if necessary.

ellroon said...

It staggers me that in 2012 we have been forced back to discussing the bizarre idea that women are equal to men.

It's interesting that my daughter's peers accept women's equality as a given. Contraception, birth control, gay rights, equal pay for equal work... all these ideas are recognized as true and indisputable.

Thank goodness for the next generation...

Steve Bates said...

Maybe I should have had kids, if for no other reason than to inspire me.

ellroon said...

I don't think it's just these particular kids, although they are Californians and all.

Look at how the military brass found that a lot of their younger soldiers didn't care that one of their squad might be gay, didn't think it would affect morale, and thought the whole rumpus was unnecessary. It was them old farts who were having conniptions...

My CAPTCHAs have gone Greek: eeletra daropura....

Steve Bates said...

eeletra daropura....

I believe my regular Greek commenter, L'Enfant, mentioned her one time...

(My CAPTCHA is hardly exotic. Thank goodness, err, Google.)

ellroon said...

Mourning becomes eeletra?