This week on Where Are All the Women, Mary Lou and Meghan discuss the heterodox men obsessed with prostitutes, the latest in Canadian politics, and more!
Thinking about the whole "just be kind" mantra regarding pronouns from oblivious men with massive blind spots to women's reality - I grew up with a mother who could not get a credit card because they did not give them to females without a male co-signer. I recall the dominant narrative re: women drivers was that females were so shallowly obsessed with our appearance that we were so frequently checking our makeup in the mirror and drying our nails out the car window, that we could not safely drive.
During that time and well into the 80s, the main means of shutting down women's speech regarding injustice was that we were too sensitive. We couldn't take a joke. etc etc etc.
So all of a sudden we are supposed to do an about face and care for the frivolous sensitivities of delusional men? The double standards never end.
Another random thought regarding relentless double standards: if those of us who hold the wrong beliefs are "transphobes" and "whorephobes", aren't phobias mental illnesses by definition, and aren't the mentally ill a special group who must be accommodated, cared for and given special indulgences? Should I not be eligible for government support as well as love and understanding given my "irrational phobias"?
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Thinking about the whole "just be kind" mantra regarding pronouns from oblivious men with massive blind spots to women's reality - I grew up with a mother who could not get a credit card because they did not give them to females without a male co-signer. I recall the dominant narrative re: women drivers was that females were so shallowly obsessed with our appearance that we were so frequently checking our makeup in the mirror and drying our nails out the car window, that we could not safely drive.
During that time and well into the 80s, the main means of shutting down women's speech regarding injustice was that we were too sensitive. We couldn't take a joke. etc etc etc.
So all of a sudden we are supposed to do an about face and care for the frivolous sensitivities of delusional men? The double standards never end.
Another random thought regarding relentless double standards: if those of us who hold the wrong beliefs are "transphobes" and "whorephobes", aren't phobias mental illnesses by definition, and aren't the mentally ill a special group who must be accommodated, cared for and given special indulgences? Should I not be eligible for government support as well as love and understanding given my "irrational phobias"?
Haha yes! We should all be on disability, apparently.