> You seem like a patronizing chap. > > Who taught you how to speak to women? Do you think you can you get your > money back? Your approach of nominally building community through > antagonism and alienation is unoriginal and ineffective. > > Oh well, I gave this list a try after being unsubscribed for a long > time, but the cost-benefit hasn't been much better than what I get on > myspace. See yaz around, and thanks for the recommendations on local > service providers. The archives are invaluable for that. Keep on!
In the above post, 99 wanted to take a shot at me. She wanted to take a shot at free speech. But she invoked a stereotype of women along with her ridiculous cost-benefit analysis. Now that she is gone back to the comfort of upscale censorship, I'd like to address this very oppresive stereotype. I am a male feminist. I have worked with, argued with, solved problems with women whose strength and intellect runs circles around our local civic association leaders be they men or women. Women are different from men, but don't need to be put on a pedestal protected by some dashing Mr. D'Arcy and his way of talking to women. The stereotype 99 relies upon to take her shot must be confronted. Women are not weak minded dainty creatures- A gender which must be put upon a pedestal and kept far beneath a glass ceiling, in a world that must be controlled by strong men. Their emotions will not control their intellect when the word, gal, is used to ridicule childishness. This stereotype is insulting to the women I know and respect. This stereotype justifies oppressing women as a gender emotionally and intellectually inferior. Women I know would not like to see this stereotype invoked because 99 is too pathetic to muster more than a cheap shot. There are childish and pathetic men, and there are childish and pathetic women. This stereotype 99 relies upon is one of the most dangerous insulting stereotypes available to subvert the feminist cause. If women triunph or make mistakes they deserve the same praise or criticism as men. Period. Glenn
