House of Eratosthenes

You’re not supposed to change Your mind when You’re a Replacement-Jesus. But I suppose if you watch any one thing long enough, you’ll see there’s a first time for everything.

[President Barack] Obama called [California Attorney General Kamala] Harris earlier in the day to offer an apology, according to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.

“He called her to apologize for the distraction created by his comments,” Carney said during a Friday briefing at the White House. Carney acknowledged later that the president had also “apologized for the remark” during the conversation with Harris.

Obama “did not want in any way to diminish the attorney general’s professional accomplishments and her capabilities,” Carney said. “He fully recognizes the challenges women continue to face in the workplace and that they should not be judged based on appearance.”

Hat tip to Reel Girl, who views the apology with a much greater sense of approval than I.

The irony is, in my view feminists should not have pressed this. And I think I’m right. It does the movement enormous damage. It does nothing to make opportunities enjoyed by the two sexes more equal, since women can tell men how handsome they/we are pretty much all the time. It’s even happened to me a couple of times. What am I to do, now, sue someone? Was I the victim of discrimination? The question cannot be answered for it cannot be seriously asked; no one’s wondering.

A lot of other things are failing to arouse anybody’s curiosity too. Has Rush Limbaugh finally been proven right about his most controversial item within the thirty-five undeniable truths of life: “Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society”? Who criticized him when he said this? Many, as I recall. Are they going to line up to start offering their apologies now? You might say, it isn’t called “undeniable” for nothin’.

Did Obama decide He was in the wrong on this thing — this one thing, since Obama’s job description is to prevail in every conflict, all the time, anywhere — when someone from the White House perused this blog and saw I was defending Him? There’s an entertaining thought. Or, did He come to realize, without the benefit of me pointing it out to Him or anyone in His administration, that He had dared to offer resistance against The Culture That Must Always Win?

Feminism doesn’t always have to win; “black power” doesn’t always have to win. Even Barack Obama doesn’t always have to win. But this weird culture that doesn’t even work, and is opposed to children and adults knowing how to confront the challenges that life has to offer, has to win. All of the time.

Did someone happen to read those words, and decide “Hey, what this Freeberg character said doesn’t make any sense, we’d better do something to make it make more sense”? Because they just proved this right, too. “Barack Obama doesn’t always have to win…[b]ut this weird culture…has to win. All of the time.”

And now, most pressingly, we have to ask: What else are we not allowed to notice about nice-looking women? This becomes a social slight if they happen to have a job with authority, that has nothing to do with being pretty? Okay, I think I get that; but what if I don’t know? If I mention to my wife that a woman way across the room is pretty, and she turns out to be the Chairwoman of this-that-or-some-thing, and I didn’t know, does that mean I have committed a faux pas?

How about that dumb slut Sandra Fluke? What if I decide she’s a good-looker, and make the mistake of saying so? I get in trouble twice?

And where does feminism go, from here, I wonder? Part of the reason I see it as hurting itself by insisting on things like this is, it highlights that part of feminism that makes that least sense, that is destined to lose. When it presses the demands of quivering neurotic females, who require constant reassurance of that which is not true, and cannot ever be true: That everyone, everywhere, agrees with them about everything. The truth is that everyone doesn’t. As long as they deal with that truism by forcibly muting any expression of any undesirable opinion, they cannot sincerely promote themselves as champions of freedom, or of equality either.

My mother-in-law was very proud of my personal growth, as I saw the light and defended Obama about something. She and I now share the disappointment that He decided the apology was (somehow) necessary. I believe this is the first time I’ve seen Barack Obama reverse course and apologize for/about something. It interests me that, to the best I can recall, this is the first time He could have made the country stronger by sticking to His guns. If He’s making it His mission to make the wrong decision all the time, He’s doing pretty well.

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- House of Eratosthenes | 05/01/2013 @ 08:19

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