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2024-05-31 -Great Cultural Revolution

The pendulum has swung too far and we're the ones that pushed it

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Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-31 07:34|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top

#1 TikTok
But the woman's remarks resonate.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-31 08:02|| 2024-05-31 08:02|| Front Page Top

#2 The bad women consider this to be a desirable outcome. For some of them it moves them up from status of a 4 to a 5.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-31 10:58|| 2024-05-31 10:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Online constant lamentations. 30+ years old and alone. Childless, single and alone with their bills. Cats will not help. When they are on the hunt all the men can see are dollar signs. I know of one woman who has taken three different men to court for sexual harassment. She won of course.

Posted by Dale 2024-05-31 11:01|| 2024-05-31 11:01|| Front Page Top

#4 I somehow found a good one. Nearly 50 years now. If she goes first... gawd forbid, I will be flying solo until the end. All in all, much better than I have deserved I assure you.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-31 11:08|| 2024-05-31 11:08|| Front Page Top

#5 re: #4

Besoeker, 51 years ago I found the right one. Still together working at it successfully. The right one is the only one you need.

Posted by alanc 2024-05-31 11:56|| 2024-05-31 11:56|| Front Page Top

#6 These 35+ unhappy women are the product of their parents, who bought every misery sold to them because it had a pretty bow, so they are selling the misery even harder now to show you just how sure they are that they are right. Hence, The View.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-05-31 12:05|| 2024-05-31 12:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Fourth Wave Feminists Harpies - Misery likes company

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-05-31 13:07|| 2024-05-31 13:07|| Front Page Top

#8 My husband and I just celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. We've loved, respected, supported, and challenged each other for more than half a century.

I am not fond of nor support what 4th-5th wave feminism became. But before the men here become TOO congratulatory, I invite you to view such things as nearly a century of movies and other media that portrayed women as silly little things.

Or read 19th century works which explicitly state that women cannot be educated or trusted to do things like vote or manage finances.

Those were real - and they were pernicious and finally triggered a real backlash to the detriment of many, not least children.

Posted by lotp 2024-05-31 14:01|| 2024-05-31 14:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Detriment that has now extend to, inter alia, our fundamental military capability.

And that in turn is enabled by systemic corruption inside the Beltway, which I saw up close during my last stint in that ecosystem in which I interacted with DHS, FBI, DOD branches, the IC, and several congressional staff. I resigned and walked away from my career rather than collaborate.

Our cultural rot goes deep. Failing to respect and uphold ALL truth - including, along the way, the truth about the capabilities that men and women share as well as those ways in which they differ - has fostered the dangerous rot we're facing.

Posted by lotp 2024-05-31 14:08|| 2024-05-31 14:08|| Front Page Top

#10 a century of movies and other media that portrayed women as silly little things.

Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Davis, our Louis Brooks?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-05-31 15:04|| 2024-05-31 15:04|| Front Page Top

#11 American women were silly.
Take Sophie and Myrna and Billie
And Alice and Trixie
And Della and Dixie...
But finally we fixed that. No, rilly!

"Hey, what about me?"
"Say goodnight, Gracie."
"And what am I, foie gras?"
"You gotta lotta splainin go do!"

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2024-05-31 15:57|| 2024-05-31 15:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Video Games today are media. Interactive media, but media nontheless. Even pinball games tell a story.

No Big Name game producer, famous for sports, has put women into Major League Baseball. Not a separate softball mode (which actually has a lot of potential especially with modern force and directional sensitive controllers), but in The Majors. IIRC, the promo had a woman playing short stop. You know, like Alcides Escobar, Ozzie Smith, Derek mf'n Jeter. Short and 3rd, players have to throw at least as hard and accurately as top-tier NFL quarterbacks.

But there's Kim over there, with a shift towards 3rd but eying 2nd to cover the steal, with her star on the cheek face paint and her pony tail which totally doesn't get in the way of tracking down a short Texas Leaguer.

Big Video Game seems to have been put in a collar by middle age women feminists and gay men, all selling this very real, very harmful lie to younger women.

All you have to do is work hard, be a girl boss, and you too can be as good, if not better, than boys at sports. Or this one, you don't have to study or prepare for unknown situations, all you have to do is use your girl magic and you solve the problem, just like in the movies. That one is actually worse, because it is used in unmeasurable circumstances like social interactions.

Its good to see some waking up and even push back.

I'm open, I'm neutral, I hated all the players, dude brahs I think they kids call them now?, in Jersey Shore.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-05-31 18:55|| 2024-05-31 18:55|| Front Page Top

#13 51 laps last January. Easy? Not always. But looking at the green-eyed Mrs. Ret. still brings same reaction as when I first saw her in Gull Lake Band Room as The New Girl in School (there should be a song about that…).
Easy? Not always, but if it were there would be an EZ Button, or something.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2024-05-31 20:06|| 2024-05-31 20:06|| Front Page Top

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