@bourbon_warrior said:
@spaceinsomniac said:
Wait, didn't you leave? I could have sworn that you said something about that.
Well, since you're still here, how about one more quote from my "hero" girlwriteswhat.
http://owningyourshit.blogspot.com/2012/03/transcript-of-those-privileged-blue.html
In the school attended by my friend's son, games like dodgeball and tag have been prohibited, because they encourage aggression and lead to bruises. The new, PC mantra, "We don't keep score here, we are all winners," stifles boys' natural competitiveness, and turns even sports into an exercise in going through the motions as pointless to boys as all that open-ended cutting and pasting and rote memorization. And when those boys then turn tovideo games to exercise the hardwired skills, learning styles and interests more common to them--hands on "doing", achievement, competition and score-keeping--that have been fully excised from the school environment, they're written off as lazy time-wasters.
But she still advocated domestic violence...
She "advocated domestic violence," as did the feminists at the very blog you linked to in an attempt to discredit her. To quote that again:
I used to live under a young couple with a baby. I’d listen as she followed him from room to room upstairs, stomping, slamming things, throwing things, screaming. After about an hour, he’d eventually hit her, and everything would go quiet. An hour after that, they’d be out with the baby in the stroller, looking perfectly content with each other.
Now this is CLEARLY an unhealthy relationship. There's no doubt about it. But it's extremely telling that you are telling me to "stop trying to justify domestic violence against women," when the point that she's trying to make is that society completely ignores domestic violence against men. To further illustrate my point:
Normally I would say that violence towards your husband is never justified, however, I did see my mom hit my dad twice. She stayed and put up with him because of me, and every few years he would get in one of these moods where he would ride her ass and tell her what a loser she was for being a lousy mother, gaining weight, or whatever, put his finger in her face, scream at her, shove her, etc. This would go on nightly for weeks until she would beg him to stop because she was about to snap, which only encouraged him. He got off on it. She would try to go for a walk to get away from him before she lost it, and he would grab her and keep on and on, until she would start shaking and crying uncontrollably, and then she would snap. She said he would literally see red, then have no memory of what happened. I have snapped like this once after having been bullied for years and years, and I couldn’t remember, either. She felt cornered and tried to do the right thing and take a walk, but he wouldn’t let her. I can’t fault her for that. If anyone deserved a backhanding, it would have been him.
How did it make you feel reading that? Did you want her to simply hit him once, or should she have picked up the nearest heavy object and beat the shit out of him? Perhaps you wanted to see him sent to jail for a very long time? No matter what you thought, I would imagine that you had a very different reaction than the first time you read that paragraph.
To be honest, without even thinking about it, I'd be guilty of the same reaction. Society has created a situation where we simply don't give a fuck about men being mentally or physically abused by women.
I would absolutely say that no man should ever hit a women, but why should that be a one way street? Isn't that the very definition of the word sexist?
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