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Posted on 10/11/2020 4:11:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
Let’s face it, there is nothing that won’t offend a Democrat. They get up every morning actively seeking something to bother them after waking up in a cold sweat and dreaming of microaggressions. They aren’t normal people; you wouldn’t wish their lives on your worst enemy, you also wouldn’t have to because they already have them. Liberals being miserable is nothing new, they’ve just gotten more forceful in projecting their misery on everyone else. If they get their way in the election, they’ll be able to mandate their misery and punish those who don’t comply. How that will manifest itself is always on display, just flip on MSNBC or CNN for two minutes and you’ll see it.
This week’s examples are about sexism, which at least is a nice change of pace from Democrats calling everyone racist.
Since its inception, feminism told everyone they were fighting for equality. That’s a noble goal. It’s also one the feminists achieved, whether they want to admit it or not (and they don’t want to admit it because there’s no money or power in admitting it). But equality brought with it something unexpected and inconvenient – literal equality.
No one is screaming about how women can’t be this, that, or the other thing anymore. There are more women in college today than men, for example. But with that success came expectations, particularly that men could treat women the way men treat other men. As we see regularly, that’s not allowed.
College professors demand more women authors to be taught rather than the classics written by men. Museums want to display more female artists, and the list goes on and on. No one dare say to women, "write better books, create better art, and produce classics."
The same demand for preferential treatment was on display in the vice-presidential debate. Mike Pence committed the “sin” of treating Kamala Harris like he has treated other men he has debated. Rather than being applauded, or better yet simply unremarked upon, for treating Harris as an equal, Pence was accused of “mansplaining,” a made-up crime to perpetuate the progressive feminist grift.
The truth of the matter is feminists, leftists, and pretty much anyone claiming to be pursing equality are actually seeking preferential treatment. No one wants to be “treated equally” because, on average, people treat each other pretty poorly.
I’m not saying we’re abusive to each other, though some can be. Mostly we simply don’t care. We don’t care about people we don’t know. We don’t wish them ill. It’s not like we walk around cursing the strangers we pass in our heads; we just simply don’t give them a second thought.
It’s not wrong when people pretend not to notice someone begging for money at an intersection or step over an unconscious homeless person sleeping on the sidewalk. It’s human nature. We only have so much bandwidth. What isn’t human nature is pretending to seek equality while demanding special treatment.
Should a woman never be interrupted by a man? That’s not equality. Yet, it’s what the self-professed seekers of equality demanded this week. It’s what they demand every week and every day of every week.
What the left demands publicly and how they pursue it are incompatible. They’re also destructive.
The Governor of Michigan blamed President Trump for an alleged plot to kidnap her by a group whose members, it turns out, include people who hate the president and attended Black Lives Matter protests (figure that one out). Trump said mean things about her, so she lied and said they were inspired by him, which was enough for her to claim victim status. It had to be Trump’s fault because Trump hates women, and Gretchen Whitmer is a woman. The media eagerly parroted her lies as fact, not mentioning the unpopularity of her own decisions and abuses as governor (declared such by the state’s Supreme Court).
Two weeks earlier, a woman mailed the poison ricin to the White House hoping to kill the president. You likely never heard of it. One event, thankfully, never made it past the planning stage. The other happened. The president’s criticisms were blamed for what happened in Michigan, four years of relentless slanders, accusing Trump of being everything from a puppet of Russia to Hitler reincarnated. The slanders, repeated endlessly on two cable “news” outlets, were not even considered to be a possible inspiration for an assassination attempt against the president
When progressive “Bernie Bro” James Hodgkinson opened fire on Republicans practicing baseball because of an endless stream of “reports” claiming their health care plan would lead to the deaths of 10,000 people per year, the leftist media moved on before Congressman Steve Scalise was off life support. It was inconvenient to the narrative that Republican rhetoric leads to violence, so after three days it was like it never even happened.
One side gets treated one way, the other treated differently. You can call that a lot of things, none of which are equality.
Equality is not what Democrats want, and it’s not what they would ever accept. Democrats are above criticism and not responsible for anything. Everything is the fault of Republicans, even when the evidence clearly shows it isn't. Repeating Gretchen Whitmer’s whining about Trump’s rhetoric doesn’t make her lies true. Complaining about Kamala Harris being interrupted “because she’s a woman” doesn’t change the fact that she was interrupted not because of which bathroom she uses but for the lies she uses. Demanding equality while insisting on being treated differently does not make liberal women victims. It makes Democrats hypocrites.
Not about equal rights... it is about SPECIAL rights. Example 1: the female sentencing discount. Female criminals are much more likely to get off with a lighter sentence than a male for the same crime committed.
Example 2: “child” (aka matriarchy) support. In a divorce custody almost always goes to the female even if she is a raving drug addict/lunatic. The male then has to bankrupt himself by supporting two families. When the male rarely gets custody, no “child” support is ever automatically granted as it is when mommykins gets custody.
Example 3: Female with custody almost always alienates the children against the male and his side of the family. Happens with stunning predictability. Then the male has to spend even more money fighting in court to preserve the speck of rights the “family” court gives him; usually to no avail. An honest attorney will tell the male to just give up and “drop the rope” as there is no point in fighting the government machine. Even schools don’t recognize the father as a decision maker despite what it may say on paper (”joint legal custody”).
Very good points.
Compliments to the author.
>> it is about SPECIAL rights
It’s about the Left having a bigger voice than the male counterpart.
Every male needs to view the Left as a bar thug hitting on his babe.
The upside to having all these sports leagues allowing “transgender” men compete as women is that it is going to put a lot of the conversations about “gender equality” to rest.
Yes, the government machine is crawling with deep state leftists. I live in a blue state where this is particularly true.
The destruction of the black family has long been complete and now the destruction of the suburban white family is 90% there by incentivising non nuclear families with gov’t subsidies.
After voter ID, I hope the President does something about this massive assault on the father and children. Most of these mass shooters come from fatherless homes where soccer mommy was ladling ADHD meds down their children’s throats. We don’t hear much about these mass shooters right now as they have all joined Antifa or so it seems.
From the article: “ you wouldn’t wish their lives on your worst enemy”
They are our worst enemy. And I wish them worse than that!
Government is now the father and husband to many women, instead of men. Unnatural, impersonal and inhuman, that.
Leftists have purposely indoctrinated women for many decades, with “equality” as the cover, but male-bashing as the goal.
(Actually) Christian, conservative and/or patriotic women are publicly demonized by the left/Democrats, as is happening to Amy Coney Barrett now. The same thing happens with blacks; women are just another Democrat plantation for D votes, in the end. Will women awaken, as blacks are beginning to?
Its emotionally how ever they feel in any situation. They right the ticket, there is no debate, there is no discussion, they are right always. This is just one part of the de masculinazation of the male gender. They are doing it already to our young boys in school. Couple this with being white and the other side of racism white privilege and hating yourself for being born white indoctrination. This is the evil of the left
I sincerely hope so but I have my doubts. As a woman myself, I see many have been brainwashed over the sacrament of abortion.
We’re often exposed to the worst, but I have absolute faith in the Black family, and all families for that matter. The nuclear family is an instinctive construct — heck, we’re predominantly made of Carbon ;)
This Marxist distraction is temporary — we’ll make sure of it.
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Yup, that same cycle of chaos was referenced in another thread where I mentioned complacency — the complacency regarding telecom’s ownership and direction of Rat media.
I like the Biblical answer to the question of equal but different.
The man was constructed first.
Upon reflection, the need for binary sex reproduction arose. So the woman was built around the rib taken from the man.
Equal, and different.
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