Misogyny? Well, DUH! [View all]

[Loaded Liberal Dem]

I'm a straight white male who is turning 51 on Sunday. Have I objectified members of the opposite sex in my lifetime? Again, DUH! When I was in high school and college (especially the latter), getting laid > getting grade. Sleeping with a gal when we were both blitzed out of our minds was standard operating procedure. Perhaps some of the girls we fucked felt violated afterward. I don't know, as none of the ones I was with actually told me such was the case.

Of course, as I grew into my mid-to-late 20s, I realized how me and my buds had been total assholes. But a funny thing happened on the way to repentance: A lot of women actually seemed to start embracing the misogynistic tropes that I was learning to abandon.

Item: Man-sharing. This was a prominent argument put forward by some "women's" magazines in the late 80s and early 90s like Redbook and Cosmo, the idea being that there was a "man shortage," and that smart gals should reconcile themselves to membership in a mini-harem in order to achieve happiness. This occurred at the same time that fashion mags, officiallly edited by women, began running lingerie ads using barely-pubescent girls as models.

Two decades later, where are we as a society? Well, girls and young women have role models like Lena Dunham, whose TV show Girls appears to have no problem whatsoever with guys who abuse their girlfriends, borderline raping them, and are rewarded for this behavior, while young men who dare to show "respect" (ugh!) for the female gender are cast aside.

Then, of course, we have the "properly-programmed" like Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, et al, made to specification by the Humbert Humberts of Hollywood. Sadly, these girls are now "legal" in all 50 states, so you can bet dollars to dimes that a new crop of Lolitas is on its way.

And then there's this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/19/blondie-bennett-barbie-woman-hypnotherapy-stupid_n_4815495.html

And this:

And then, saddest of all, there are these:

Hey, guys, our society is truly fucked up!