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Dreaming of right-wing women

Saturday, 25 March 2017, 19:00 MJA Uncategorized 6

Letters To Hannah:

Dear Hannah,

I don’t believe (whatever Paul and Schopenhauer said) that women in general are stupid, but I don’t believe the rumor’s existence is entirely the fault of our men. The women seem to have brought it on themselves.  If all our men were to start calling our women ugly nobody would believe it, mostly because there is nothing more true than that women are one of the only things we stare at so desperately that some of us end up in jail.  But even if men tried spreading the lie, the truth of an assertion lies not in its totality but in its probability.   Too many women are beautiful for us to call them ugly.  We might even say the concept of beauty revolves around women*.  But are too many women intelligent for us to say they aren’t stupid?

In woman’s defense the problem lies more in the fact that some women are speaking for women than that all women are speaking for women.  The same has gone for every other group  since the beginning of history.  A part must represent the whole or there will be chaos.  The problem with womankind’s representation is that femininity isn’t a representative organization (or even an organization) at all; and the women who speak for women are never elected by womankind to do it.  We might even go as far as saying they have a problem of suffrage.  The feminist of the modern age is much less an envoy than a usurper.  She speaks for the totality of her sex when she represents easily far less than half**.
But let us dispense with the abstract and move on to the concrete.  When Donald Trump became the president nearly two months ago it was said that “women” went mad over it; and when they went mad they “all” took to the streets.

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6 Comments on Dreaming of right-wing women

  3. I like the way this man thinks and writes. I’m impressed by the depth of his examination of things taken for granted; that is implicit in most of his commentary.

    And then there are the little delicious tidbits like this one:

    …suffragettes were never the majority of women…They were simply obnoxious and motivated and organized and violent — like the Bolsheviks and the Snowflakes and the Nazis.

    Such a wonderful implicit equivalence.

  4. We’ll ignore women whom nobody would have sex with demanding we keep our hands off their vaginas; and that we would keep our politics out of vaginas while they are putting vaginas into our politics. We’ll ignore the consoling embraces given to people who are not raped, and the cold shoulder given to children who are actually dissected.

    So much truth in so few words.

  5. A beautiful woman is rarer than you think. How many do you see on a daily basis? At the grocery store, the mall, the bar? And how many still are without makeup? TV and movies makes it seem like they’re everywhere.
    I went to the state fair that had over 200k in attendance that day and didn’t see one beautiful woman.
    Beauty AND brains is even rarer.

  6. A non,

    Depends on if you are talking about the kind of beauty that is in contention for a blue ribbon first place in a beauty contest or the women I consider beautiful that would never enter a contest.

    To me, there are lots of beautiful women around.

    I wouldn’t even bother with the contest winner. Make up, clothing, and all the other things that go into “outstanding beauty” kind of disqualify them for me.

    I don’t feel like I’m looking at the real person if they need to do that to themselves every day,

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