Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Margot is upset with this visual, opting to headline it “If you don’t see the sexism in this ad, imagine a boy in it.”
Well, I don’t; I did; and, still, I see nothing out of place. I can very easily see the same advertisement with a boy. What am I missing.
If I still commented there, that’s about all I’d have to say about it. But someone else piped in with,
When I showed this to a real existing female friend of mine, a mother of two (one boy, one girl), she noted that the superwoman in your Reel Girl logo is rather sexy and should perhaps instead be overweight, have short hair, and no make up to avoid promoting gender stereotypes.
Another female friend said that she’s fine with dancey pants for all people and that you should perhaps get over your own white privileged self, and if this was your definition of sexism, you might need a cold hard look at the real world. She added: “I’m a feminist , a single mom of a mixed boy, and we are fine with dancey pants. It’s not like the girl in the ad was wearing an apron and holding a spatula. #getoverit”. Her beautiful boy wears dancey pants and pink – regularly.
I will add that I regularly see an approx. 5 year old boy in my street playing in dresses and that I see no harm in that, nor would I if he were to be featured in an advert for children’s health. Quite the contrary. What I personally don’t like is that your title seems to suggest that if one doesn’t subscribe to your idea of sexism, one is a sexist.
Margot replied coolly and cheerfully, as she is wont to do with things like this. She’s had ample opportunity to demonstrate this over the years, you can see that mil-fems do a lot of bickering. The woman in the graphic is gorgeous looking because her face is made up of the features of Margot’s three beautiful daughters.
Which raises an — ahem — ugly question of sorts: How far do we want to take this? “Overweight, have short hair, and no make up to avoid promoting gender stereotypes”? Can it be said that a political movement, or a social movement, is good for us when it insists that beauty, once inserted into something, must be mutated into something it is not? Is it okay for us to admit it’s a destructive force, when it stops nothing short of putrefying fruit on the vine and souring the milk in its vessels…consciously and on purpose? Isn’t that what the witch trial prosecutors were accusing the “witches” of doing? And here we are in modern times, watching the mil-fems actually doing it, deliberately and all the time.
And what’s up with this remark about “you should perhaps get over your own white privileged self.” Why all the hate? I just don’t see a call for it. Other than, perhaps, you could make the case that Margot is finding a lot of negativity after she went out looking for it, and perhaps it’s the writer’s intent to fling a little bit of that back in her direction. But if that’s the intent, it was not artfully done. Before the reply, the matter under discussion is sexism, and after it’s posted we’re talking about race as well. That can only mean the commenter is bringing in new grudges, no longer limiting himself to discussing what’s already there.
I just find this all so exhausting. There are some misguided souls out there who say all blogging is like this; everybody is minding everybody else’s business, which causes yet more bloggers to start minding everybody else’s business instead of their own. They say if we all went back to keeping our own houses in order, everything would be all wonderful and perfect or some such. How I wish their opinions were as verifiable in correctness as they are stout and eminent in their confidence.
But they dream of a simpler world, one that may have existed before many events we’ve seen, in which we as a society have lost our innocence. Like Henry Rearden in Atlas Shrugged, we’re slowly discovering, and far too late, that “minding your own business” in this day & age has taken on a new layer of complexity. Keeping your own house in order before worrying about the houses of others, means noticing, calling attention to, and acting on the fact that there are a lot of other people out there minding your house, who aren’t tending to theirs. It’s the price we pay for all living together, I suppose. We’ve got these militant feminist ninnies out there, some of them men, who are bound and determined to do more and more complaining until they get what they want, which starts with having an effect. We’ve already tried ignoring them. What happens is, they don’t achieve everything they want, but they do disrupt the lives of everybody else with their negativity. It isn’t even that hard for them to do it, it seems. Now they want more ugly-woman superheroes, and to get rid of good-looking women in comic books, blogger mastheads, and everywhere else.
What a terrible thing to do to a civilized society: Get rid of all the beautiful women. It’s as if they’re carving out a special, isolated existence, custom-designed, feature by feature, experience by experience, and attribute by attribute, to be not very enjoyable. Like a special aquarium in which one would keep frogs and lizards, when one doesn’t like the frogs and lizards and wants to punish them. For what? Simply being frogs and lizards?
What sort of people think this way? Who has the tolerance for such negativity, to crave it so much? They want to say how we should live together, and can’t even get along with each other. And who has the time?
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And what’s up with this remark about “you should perhaps get over your own white privileged self.”
I can decode that one for you. It means: “I don’t like what you said, but I don’t have anything insightful — or logical, or even coherent — upon which to base my objection, so I’ll register my distaste with a bit of meaningless leftist sloganeering.”
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