Sunday, April 5, 2009

I've had just about enough of this

So, I'm reading this essay by a crazy feminist for this paper I have to write. She claims that a book about a man doesn't go in depth enough into women's lives. Quite frankly, ma'am, shut the fuck up. She completely overlooks the fact that the narrative is a perspective and that perspective is of the main characters, and if you were capable in the least of any free thought you would understand the ironies. This probably doesn't make much sense if you don't know what I'm talking about. The book is called Things Fall Apart, if you care to know, but that's not what I'm here to write about.

What I want to talk about is the use of the term "woman" as a derogatory term. On the surface, it makes sense. When a man calls another man a woman, one might ask "and what is so wrong about being a woman?" Well, there's nothing wrong with being a woman except, you know, he's a man! Why is this so hard for people to understand? They see the other side of it. Women don't want to be called "manly." And if they do, they're missing the insult and that's the real shame. Women who want to be men aren't examples of strong women, they are examples of women who are ashamed to be women. And that is the problem. Hence, if women wanting to be men is a problem, then men wanting to be men (and not women) is not a problem.

So, tell me, butch lesbians of feminism (what? you don't like being called butch lesbians? why not? is there something wrong with being a butch lesbian?) how is calling a man a woman insulting to women but calling a woman a man isn't insulting to men?

Seriously, people gotta understand this gender dichotomy again. Equality doesn't require things to be the same.

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