In the culture wars of my youth, the conservatives lost, and the progressives (who one) have controlled the organs of propaganda ever since. They stated that being a gentleman was wrong. Now the complain that men do not act that way.
I’ve been sensitivity-trained over the years to not notice that professional women are women; they are professionals. If I perform some activity that could indicate a woman is a lesser person than a man, such as assisting with overhead luggage, there is a not-insignificant risk that I will be called on the carpet for my sexism and sent to sensitivity training, possibly sued and/or fired. That’s what women have demanded and that’s what they’ve got. I don’t know you: I don’t know if you’ll thank me, or berate me. Both have happened to me. I would love to help you, but it’s too a heavy risk to take.
It seems that the liberals work to a double standard. The Alinskyite rule — demand that people live to the standards they espouse — cannot apply to them. Michael Mann can abuse anybody who disagrees with him as retrograde and demand that they are expelled from academe, but he cannot handle satire.
This is seen in the dating marketplace, where one of the few groups who are doing well — the techie developers — is shunned.
Bill Price, who lives in the wetter geek centre (Seattle) comments.
So you’re making $35 per hour, which is significantly better than most of your young peers, and you don’t know the next thing about the city you’ve moved to. Never fear! Real estate developers have you covered. For only $2,000 per month, you can live in this swank, convenient apartment we just built on top of the rubble of a place that used to house low-wage workers. Nevermind that we built it on the cheap, and it will be a decaying eyesore within a decade’s time — the city is just so awesome and progressive you’ll have the time of your life in the few hours of leisure time you have every week.
This is the techie “dudebro” reality, and if you ask me, it kind of sucks. But the feminists hate these guys. Why?
It’s because they haven’t (yet) figured out how to take their money. Young professional men are not getting married at high rates, and most of them don’t have time for a girlfriend. Women are very time-consuming, hence the romance fantasy of the unemployed billionaire, who keeps up his fortune by issuing orders to subordinates every now and then like some contented silverback gorilla placidly munching bamboo shoots in a jungle grove.
The other problem is that as much as women like the idea of getting paid $100k per year, they don’t generally like spending 60 hours per week under a corporate whip. Not that I blame them for that, but come on girls, be realistic…
So the problem is really that all this profit is not going to the feministas. The traditional vector does not apply in this case. However, as we can see from the above, that isn’t the tech worker’s fault. No, it is all the other bastards who have figured out how to milk him for every ounce of energy and profit they can while he’s still young, leaving nothing for the girls.
Well, yeah. I’m putting this together on a Sunday evening while being connected to the library and writing lectures. Sixty hours a week? I did 80 to 100 hours a week, functionally, for most of the time I was a junior doctor, if you include studying for exams. Doctors consider part time to be 40 hours a week.
The high pay comes at a high cost. It’s either hours, the requirement for a rare talent, or risk. Common jobs are not commonly paid that well — because many people can do them, and many people are willing to do them. This is why I’d recommend young people do welding not teaching or nursing — we are oversupplying people with basic credentials at present. And it is also why senior medics get paid so much — I am responsible for what happens in my team regardless of when it happens. I carry the risk. And I expect to be compensated for that.
But that does not matter, because the narrative is controlled by the progressives, who have less morals than a bonobo.
Women just don’t think that a nerdy guy should have money. In high school, they were what women considered to be the bottom. Now that they make money, this 21st-century reality does not compute with the woman’s primate wiring. Women truly feel that the money these tech guys earns belongs to women. Hence the Sheryl Sandberg cult, as well as the push for ‘more women in tech’…
But we are not independent: we are Dependant on each other.
Here is my handy how-to guide for how one woman can spread feminism to the masses, based on my observations:
- Be a discontented misfit.
- Proclaim your independence from men despite the fact that no man has even claimed you.
- Brag about your independence in front of happily-claimed women.
- Verbally tear down these women’s men in front of them at every opportunity.
- Tell them they are missing out on something great.
- Encourage their self-doubt and envy.
- Start a movement that makes most people miserable.
It’s interesting the way that the two girls from Frozen, which is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s tale The Snow Queen, are being portrayed as Disney’s new feminist princesses. However, if you’ve actually seen the movie, you know that Princess Elsa messes everything up and runs away, while her sister Anna needs a man’s (Kristoff’s) help to come and get Elsa and set everything right again. Isn’t that just like feminists, to proclaim their independence but then to need so much help and support from other people to actually do anything?
And women choose who they consider to be of high value, there is a cost. The poetess of the feminist third wave have described this…
And if you don’t like Ani (who may be singing about a woman or man: she’s married now, but she was bisexual), Try Tori. The style changes, but the message is the same.
Peversity is when the consequences of what you are trying to get done do not fit with the goals you seek. It’s not merely a bunch of people flaunting their habits, sexual or otherwise. The messages from the elite fit within this. Don’t follow this: let the farce of this society be as a play, not something that you are acting in.
I was observing last night that the only sane tech at my husband’s employer is… my husband. He comes home to a warm and loving family every night. He works reasonable hours for an IT monkey, but he does it by working flat-out for every one of those hours. It’s not easy!
What movie did SSM watch? There wasn’t some evil feminist agenda in Frozen (although there certainly was a marketing agenda in it). The main characters weren’t independent wimmenz who created some Icicle Amazon-Kingdom. & if the plot of Frozen was meant to symbolize anything, like the original tale, it was probably mental illness (*Hans Christian Anderson most likely suffered from clinical depression).
Everything Queen Elsa touches, freezes. Including people. Since she cannot control her powers, she isolates herself to avoid accidentally killing her family. She does not want to be a Queen. She runs away to a high mountain and “Lets Go” to live in peace with magical talking snow-people, that she cannot kill since they are made of snow. Elsa never intentionally messed things up. I’m not even sure if her royal duties (that she abandoned to live in the frozen wilderness) involved administrative tasks. Like most Disney Princesses, Ana and Elsa are only shown singing songs and wearing pretty dresses. They don’t even come across as particularly bright – Ana almost married (and nearly murdered) by a con man trying to steal her fortune. Elsa didn’t realize making a giant magical snowstorm on a mountain would lower the temperature in the valley below. We can argue that they are the dumbest Princesses in the Disney animated canon. At least Snow White has the excuse of naivete (she was 13 in the original myth?) for eating the poison apple. Queen Elsa at least in her mid 20’s!
(*As you’re well aware, its a massive pet peeve of mine when Christians scrutinize children’s media and claim its evil. Frozen isn’t a plot to turn your child into a Feminist, Care Bears isn’t a plot to make your child worship Satan. However, they are plots earn toy corporations like Mattel lots of money)
FWIW the liberals are the ones crowing about the “independent women” in Frozen. SSM agrees with you.
I saw the movie and agree with both you and SSM. Oh, and the gay couple? Can’t tell from the .5 second the other dude is on the screen… he’s behind a steamy window in a sauna. -eyeroll-
I remember from my childhood, the rumor about Aladdin telling Jasmine to take her top off (I think he was telling her pet tiger take a hike? but the Tiger’s roar covered the last part) and some Christian group was “outraged” and wanted the video removed from store shelves/demanded Disney issue a full refund.
There was also the rumors about hidden phalluses on the Little Mermaid DVD cover, which triggered a similar outrage.
“SSM agrees with you”
No she doesn’t – she thinks Elsa froze her country on purpose and expected men to fix it. Elsa made the storm, but she wasn’t smart enough to realize the valley below would be effected (like I said before, rather dull for a Disney princess). & technically she was saved by a stone troll; IDK if that qualifies as a man. She also didn’t want anyone to save her – she just wanted to stop accidentally freezing people.
Too bad Elsa didn’t like in the Adventuretime World; she could’ve married the Snow King (he is looking for a Queen, lol).
PS Tell your son that you’re much nicer than my parents were when *I* was in my first two years of college… and had a 7am lecture…. nobody cooked breakfast for me!
He;’s just left the office — got a 4 PM and 6 PM lecture to go to … It was his first day. Protien increases concentration and doing that is ethical: neuromodulating his biochemistry to make him smarter (yes, I know what compounds could work) is not.
Dawwwh, I wish your son luck!
I think if you don’t cook for young men, they won’t eat well. Especially not guys in difficult science classes! (When I was hospitalized for an autoimmune liver failure complication a few years ago, I used to seek out the medical school students ’cause they always had the lowdown on the good Hospital vending machines. There was this one machine on the third floor with chocolate pudding).
Also, aren’t feminists always complaining about Disney Princesses
being some crazy plot to force women into domestic servitude? Example A: http://www.amazon.com/Cinderella-Ate-Daughter-Dispatches-Girlie-Girl/dp/0061711535
I think if American Christians spent more time thinking about Jesus’s
teachings and being decent people, instead of inventing new outlandish
boogie-men to fear (evil Care Bears, manhating Disney Princesses) –
American Christianity wouldn’t be the laughing stock that it is today. I
come from a generation of young adults that were constantly told the
above nonsense. Unsurprisingly, Millennials are abandoning the church
and think Jesus is a weak God and generally have a poor grasp of the
gospel.
I hate disney. Next question?
Even Disney-Pixar?
Finding Nemo was adorable!
Also, I liked the movie from last year (I don’t think it was Pixar though), Wreck it Ralph. That was adorable as well.
If I had little kids, though, I’d be wary of Disney. I’m a bit oblivious, but even I can notice their blatant marketing ploys. Lots of irrelevant plot-devices that serve no function besides being a tie-in toy. Magic wand/necklace/enchanted jewelry box. & don’t forget the soundtrack!
But, we can blame George Lucas and Star Wars action figures, for the push for tie-in toys.
Don;t worry about Star wars. Teenage boys read manga and similar murch more now….
Depends on the Pixar. Toy story can give little kids nightmares. But the tropes of facistprogressivism (I think I have just coined a word) are woven throughout the new stuff.
Give me road runner or bugs bunny. Beep Beep.
I didn’t like the recent Pixar movie, the one with the “independent” tomboy Irish Princess. She hired a witch to make a potion to poison her Mom, in an attempt to avoid an arranged marriage. I felt like the princess came across as unsympathetic and quite frankly, sinister.
It didn’t do too well in theaters (compared to other Disney Pixar films) and I don’t think the toys sold well either.