I wonder if any of the modern-day feminist women who actively participate in awareness campaigns/publicity stunts like 'having the right to bleed' (..supposedly to fight for free sanitary products) ever realize that many of their requests have already been met. If they’ve ever considered how ridiculous and child-like stunts like a grown woman making a scene about the founder of Facebook’s preference for plain t-shirts being somehow sexist, makes them seem. It boggles my mind, to be quite honest, how anyone would ever expect to be taken seriously, if their complaints and demands for ‘equality’ were to be expressed like that.
What if there are just too many things to complain about?
What if this ‘feminist’ shit-show is what the complaining is actually designed to do? Not all that different from when an infant complains because that is the extent of the infant’s logic and/or seeking attention is the infant's primary aim?
This cyclical complaint-binge seems to be the tendency of what happens when children are given what they ask for. Have you ever been asked by a child for any sort of sweet/junk-food, and once they’re handed an icecream cone, they reply with their ‘thank-you’’s and continue on their merry way?
No. It’s usually met with a period of silence before they return asking for more, be it for a different food altogether or simply a different flavor. Almost like they were almost blind-sided for life will actually satisfy their needs/desires without there being any much, if any, coercion necessary.
Ensuring that when the endless supply of complaints hits the fan, this will result in even more complaints being scattered far and wide. When the fulfillment of these complaints or requests fails, you can’t expect much more than to hear the ‘wronged women’ to wail again. And again. And again. And again. And again.
Whether it be about how you’re waging a ‘war on women’ unless you agree to provide employees with free contraceptives and abortifacients or insist that mothers raise their daughters as strong, confident ‘tomboys’ because wearing ruffled, pink articles of clothing is downright shameful. (…my contradiction-detector is going off the charts now with how again, the only way to truly achieve success and independence in your daughters is by dressing/styling them as you would a boy. But.. I digress.)
All of these reactions display a level of hyper-sensitivity and emotional fragility. Treating women as equals in our culture and politics is, by definition, a matter of simple fairness. Modern feminism, by contrast, has nothing to do with fairness and everything to do with the special pleading of it’s entitled group of followers.
Treating women as equals should not mean that we will flat-out ignore differences as in how men and women tend to have different strengths and weaknesses, different likes and dislikes, and will often choose different career paths, family roles, television shows, books, and movies. Men and women tend to like that they’re different, and there's no reason as to why these differences should be celebrated.
Modern-day feminism, though, has reacted to this obvious reality by either arguing that our myriad differences are nothing but 'social constructs' or by arguing that men and women are the same (leaving a loophole to that philosophy when women are better).
One thing which ladies who refer to themselves as (modern-day) ‘feminists’ seem to have trouble understanding is success. How it’s next to impossible to become successful without having to endure failure after failure. Without realizing that masculinity or men throughout history didn’t get to where they are without willing to (or being forced to by law) put their lives on the line. To spend hours outdoors in the freezing cold to make sure that their wives and children would have a home to sleep and stay warm in. That they’d be able to enjoy food prepared by the women but purchased and put on the table by these men.
There has definitely been a shift toward telling women that they need help at every stage of their lives, and many even coming to embrace that. To embrace the idea that the easiest way to be accepted and ‘respected’ is by playing the damsel in distress, or playing stupid when it comes to shit as basic as asking a guy to come out of his way to help you ‘figure out’ how to plug in your USB.
I’m sorry but… no. All of this aimless whining and claiming that you’re a ‘real woman’ while you expect the men to do most of the dirty work, on top of parading around with your tops off/in pants that are theatrically blood-stained in hopes that you may raise funds for 'gender inequalities' is far from empowering.
It’s infantilizing.
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