Tuesday, November 08, 2005
We're whiny!
Oh, sheesh, women are so damn whiny.
Let's start with the gracefully named Rachael Alyn Petach. As if women didn't already have a reputation of being pointlessly whiny, Petach continues to undermine any progress towards gender equality by throwing a fit about The Patriot's joke in some issue:
On page 21 of the aforementioned magazine, there was a simple page with contains the heading "A Coherent Argument for Feminism" followed by a complete absence of text and in small text at the bottom right corner of the page, the instructions, "See page 33." Page 33 does not exist.
Now, the joke is lame, not because it attacks feminism, but because it's not specific to it. I could make that joke about any topic. Still, the reaction to this lame joke is astounding, and is making it better and better (this is the third objection I've seen).
You see, feminists have a reputation of being shrill and whiny, so feminism gets lumped into that, rather than being "equality of sexes" as feminists seem to desire. When, for instance, someone throws a fit that my mother is the cook in the family, in the name of feminism, it's hard to take the movement seriously. (Sorry, RebC) Responding to a lame joke with "Articles or insinuation such as this one simply undermine decades of work by strong, intelligent and highly coherent women," doesn't help matters.
Seeing as a representative of the magazine can take the time to stand on our campus and pass out that issue, it would be appropriate that in their next issue the same page is occupied with a short piece of the validity of women's rights.
Look for it on page 33. Write it your own damn self. Saying "someone else should write my opinion" is so ridiculously lame.
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