Rant O' the Day!
Sep. 29th, 2018 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraRANT
So, I guess one of the things that’s bothering me about this whole Kavanaugh horse and pony show is that I’ve been fending off sexual advances my entire life—well. Until I got too old to be a sex object.
I never thought of them as “assaults.”
I thought, There are a lot of assholes in this world. Take steps to avoid those assholes.
I started taking Tai Kwon Do! I got two-thirds of the way to a black belt before the birth of my first son cut into the time I had available for such endeavors.
The incidents were upsetting, yes, but I never felt derailed by them or traumatized in any ongoing sense. I sure didn’t feel like a victim.
So, is something wrong with me because I didn’t feel like a victim?
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Also, I can’t quite get it out of my head that this is a class issue in the most privileged, namby-pamby nation on the face of the planet. The age of consent in Mexico is twelve. Congo militias are weaponizing rape, and forcing women to squat on hot coals afterwards to prevent conception. Acid attacks in India. Child marriage in Pakistan. Machismo in all its permutations and combinations throughout Central and South America.
One notes, too, that except for the accusations against Russell Simmons, the #MeToo movement has been conspicuously silent about male-on-female violence in the African American community.
So, I’m mildly disgusted by all these fragile, entitled women on American social media wailing, And then he brushed his hand against my nipple! And I did-ent like it!
And I’m even more disgusted with the dopey guys who white-knight them. Particularly because—since my FB friend list is kind of a sagittal slice through my past—I know, sometimes from personal experience, what absolute d-a-w-g-s many of these guys were back in the day.
I do think it’s wrong for me to feel disgusted. I get it: Any cleanup campaign begins by picking up your own backyard.
But, you know. You feel what you feel.
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I don't think it's wrong to feel the deepest contempt for the social media lynching of Brett Kavanaugh.
Too bad for him that he’s the poster boy for White Privilege! (Well. Not really. ‘Cause he’s a Catholic. But close enough for government work.) I don’t like the guy, but no one should be subjected to this type of public humiliation.
Everyone is entitled to due process. Everyone.
It’s just amazing for me to watch this mob that howls for “justice” when one of its own tribe members is on the chopping block unleash this tsunami of self-righteous cant punctuated by asinine, elementary school jokes. Plus that never-ending streams of Big Reveals! But, of course, the reason people flock to social media is to sniff each others' butts. Good times are had by all!
If these people were really interested in changing the rules of the game, they would get up off their asses, turn off their computers, and begin canvassing and campaigning for female political candidates. Women currently comprise a mere 20% of the voting members of Congress (84 Congressional representatives; 23 Senators.) If these people really cared, they would begin educating themselves about what’s going on in the rest of the world and try to do something about it.
But they’re sheep.
Being manipulated by the media.
Which has figured out that political soap opera gets higher ratings than scripted drama and is so-o-o-o much cheaper to produce.
And they're having so much fun playing, No!-I'm-the-Bigger-Victim! on social media.
/RANT
So, I guess one of the things that’s bothering me about this whole Kavanaugh horse and pony show is that I’ve been fending off sexual advances my entire life—well. Until I got too old to be a sex object.
I never thought of them as “assaults.”
I thought, There are a lot of assholes in this world. Take steps to avoid those assholes.
I started taking Tai Kwon Do! I got two-thirds of the way to a black belt before the birth of my first son cut into the time I had available for such endeavors.
The incidents were upsetting, yes, but I never felt derailed by them or traumatized in any ongoing sense. I sure didn’t feel like a victim.
So, is something wrong with me because I didn’t feel like a victim?
###
Also, I can’t quite get it out of my head that this is a class issue in the most privileged, namby-pamby nation on the face of the planet. The age of consent in Mexico is twelve. Congo militias are weaponizing rape, and forcing women to squat on hot coals afterwards to prevent conception. Acid attacks in India. Child marriage in Pakistan. Machismo in all its permutations and combinations throughout Central and South America.
One notes, too, that except for the accusations against Russell Simmons, the #MeToo movement has been conspicuously silent about male-on-female violence in the African American community.
So, I’m mildly disgusted by all these fragile, entitled women on American social media wailing, And then he brushed his hand against my nipple! And I did-ent like it!
And I’m even more disgusted with the dopey guys who white-knight them. Particularly because—since my FB friend list is kind of a sagittal slice through my past—I know, sometimes from personal experience, what absolute d-a-w-g-s many of these guys were back in the day.
I do think it’s wrong for me to feel disgusted. I get it: Any cleanup campaign begins by picking up your own backyard.
But, you know. You feel what you feel.
###
I don't think it's wrong to feel the deepest contempt for the social media lynching of Brett Kavanaugh.
Too bad for him that he’s the poster boy for White Privilege! (Well. Not really. ‘Cause he’s a Catholic. But close enough for government work.) I don’t like the guy, but no one should be subjected to this type of public humiliation.
Everyone is entitled to due process. Everyone.
It’s just amazing for me to watch this mob that howls for “justice” when one of its own tribe members is on the chopping block unleash this tsunami of self-righteous cant punctuated by asinine, elementary school jokes. Plus that never-ending streams of Big Reveals! But, of course, the reason people flock to social media is to sniff each others' butts. Good times are had by all!
If these people were really interested in changing the rules of the game, they would get up off their asses, turn off their computers, and begin canvassing and campaigning for female political candidates. Women currently comprise a mere 20% of the voting members of Congress (84 Congressional representatives; 23 Senators.) If these people really cared, they would begin educating themselves about what’s going on in the rest of the world and try to do something about it.
But they’re sheep.
Being manipulated by the media.
Which has figured out that political soap opera gets higher ratings than scripted drama and is so-o-o-o much cheaper to produce.
And they're having so much fun playing, No!-I'm-the-Bigger-Victim! on social media.
/RANT
