RE: Can we have an honest, balanced, down to earth discussion about feminism?
August 26, 2012 at 12:29 am
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2012 at 12:31 am by Shell B.)
No, no, no. I'm not victim blaming. Being oppressed in the sense of abuse or limited rights is absolutely no fault of women in general. Hence why I say "some" of the bias.
However, when women in the public put more emphasis on clothing choice than a job well done, they are creating a problem. When a woman in the media talks about what brand she is wearing instead of what she is accomplishing, she is contributing to the problem. When women feed into the money gobbler that is women's periodical "literature," they are exacerbating an existing problem. Women bombard themselves with oppressive shit all the time. They do it on purpose. I see women that absolutely love being useless. All they want is someone to buy them things and to pick what they want bought for them from some shiny pages. All the more power to those women. It is their right. However, we should not pretend that men put them in a position to be slaves to the pretties. They made those decisions themselves. When a women decides that children trump education, she decides to earn less than a man of the same age later. The list goes on. Are you a woman and want to be on the same footing as a man in the same trade? Act like a man in the same trade. It's that simple. I was in a man's industry for about a decade. I made more than every other man I worked with for most of that career. I went to school for metal fabrication, industrial technology and welding. I did not see anyone stopping me. I was the only girl in my shop. Where were the rest? Cosmetology. You know what that is? Hair and makeup. Yeah, no one put them there. They like being pretty.
However, when women in the public put more emphasis on clothing choice than a job well done, they are creating a problem. When a woman in the media talks about what brand she is wearing instead of what she is accomplishing, she is contributing to the problem. When women feed into the money gobbler that is women's periodical "literature," they are exacerbating an existing problem. Women bombard themselves with oppressive shit all the time. They do it on purpose. I see women that absolutely love being useless. All they want is someone to buy them things and to pick what they want bought for them from some shiny pages. All the more power to those women. It is their right. However, we should not pretend that men put them in a position to be slaves to the pretties. They made those decisions themselves. When a women decides that children trump education, she decides to earn less than a man of the same age later. The list goes on. Are you a woman and want to be on the same footing as a man in the same trade? Act like a man in the same trade. It's that simple. I was in a man's industry for about a decade. I made more than every other man I worked with for most of that career. I went to school for metal fabrication, industrial technology and welding. I did not see anyone stopping me. I was the only girl in my shop. Where were the rest? Cosmetology. You know what that is? Hair and makeup. Yeah, no one put them there. They like being pretty.
