Raging Sexism
Aug. 29th, 2008 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI made a post under my Sexuality filter a few minutes ago about an article sent by an old friend that pissed me off. I just went back and re-read it, and keep seeing more to get angry about.
This bit for example:
Men have it within their power to stop contaminating the future-wife pool.
Because of course all women really want to do is be Good Wives, and they certainly would never willingly choose to do anything on their own -- like have premarital sex -- to "contaminate" themselves and render themselves less fit to be Good Wives, now would they???
Gack!
(Note: if men -- or women -- want to refrain from pre-marital sex on moral grounds, more power to them. What I object to is this author's placing the entire responsibility for women's choices on men, and making it seem like a woman's primary purpose is becoming a wife.)
This bit for example:
Men have it within their power to stop contaminating the future-wife pool.
Because of course all women really want to do is be Good Wives, and they certainly would never willingly choose to do anything on their own -- like have premarital sex -- to "contaminate" themselves and render themselves less fit to be Good Wives, now would they???
Gack!
(Note: if men -- or women -- want to refrain from pre-marital sex on moral grounds, more power to them. What I object to is this author's placing the entire responsibility for women's choices on men, and making it seem like a woman's primary purpose is becoming a wife.)
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Date: 2008-08-30 10:07 am (UTC)They use those words, but I don' thin' they mean what they thin' they mean...
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sexistspit-for-brains>Waaal I wouldn't call it contamination! More like "breakin' in" in a new car so she runs good.
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sexistspit-for-brains>furrfu!
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Date: 2008-08-30 03:51 pm (UTC)Written by someone, male or female, who is scared shitless of female sexuality.
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Date: 2008-08-30 06:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-30 05:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-30 05:18 pm (UTC)Yeah. . . This post and the filtered one were made last night, and when I get spun up I do have a tendency to keep spinning: not just staying focused on what's upset me but getting more and more upset. (Fortunately I don't get really angry very often.)
I've pretty much let it go now. We'll see what happens when/if the friend who sent this trash responds to the emails the Ex and I blasted back.
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Date: 2008-08-30 05:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-30 06:48 pm (UTC)I have no idea how he'll respond. I'm not sure if the fact that he hasn't written a reply means that he's thoroughly chastened or morally appalled.