Quote: (09-22-2014 08:55 AM)StrikeBack Wrote:
Quote: (09-21-2014 03:55 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:
^ Welcome to the reality of an Educated Woman: constantly status-whoring by letting all and sundry know They're Educated.
The Educated SWPL Women on my Farcebook are diddling themselves to a collective orgasm over this Emma Watson's speech. They're sharing it all over their male friends' walls hoping we'd say something.
The response is radio silence from most guys other than the usual manginas.
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one among the guys I know who thought "TL;DR;WB"
I have my share of the chardonnay-socialist SWPL brigade as Facebook friends who wasted no time in trotting this landmark moment on my newsfeed, replete with such captions as "100 points for Gryffindor" and "Emma Watson is a goddess. One of them is an editor of mamamia.com.au (basically an Australian Jezebel). All but one of those shares were by chicks.
Was it a lack of courage that stopped me from commenting on how did acting in a spate of films revolving around magic spells and growing up qualified one to champion the cause of women's issues?
That her speech is fast on the way to being enshrined up there with Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech or Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" address smacks of white privilege in a time where women in white society couldn't have it any better.
The best case scenario in this appointment is a focus on women's issues in those parts of the world where it really matters, those regions where women are not legally allowed to drive a car, or go to school, or would be disowned for sleeping with a boy from a different tribe.
...you know, societies where women face far more pressing threats than being catcalled in the street or having an arse groped in a club.
As opposed to it being heralded as a foothold in the battle for women's recognition in the Western world, mental masturbation for the cause of first-world women's problems indeed.