Because The Comments Are Worth Reading
Yet again, we find that the victim group du jour’s distress is not predicated on any overt act of exclusion or discrimination, but upon the group’s own internal emotional hang-ups.
So writes R Sherman in the comments, regarding this latest fit of identitarian psychodrama, shared by Atempdog, in which implausibly delicate students and administrators rail against the “homonormative whiteness” of a campus LGBTQ centre. As commenter Farnsworth M Muldoon notes in reply, the students are, inevitably, also aggrieved, or pretending to be aggrieved, by a great many other things, including gay pride flags, which apparently perpetuate “a white gay ideal”; notions of fraternity and sorority, which are “problematic” and a cause of discomfort, albeit for reasons not entirely clear; and the campus gym, which, we’re told, reinforces “expectations of manliness” while simultaneously creating a crushing and intolerable “pressure to be fit.”
Being, as these things are, the result of pretension and personal dysfunction rather than anything approaching actual injustice, the umbrage on display is of course insatiable. There’s no way to please the compulsively, competitively, neurotically indignant, whose in-group status and sense of importance depend on disaffection and imaginary woe, and any effort to appease such creatures is likely to encourage further scolding and demands.
As illustrated, for instance, here and here.
some woke ladies seem keen to push into more physical territory
In my more self-indulgent fantasies I’ll contemplate being confronted by such a woman and asking her if she wants to be treated as an equal. When, in said fantasy scenario, she inevitably says “yes”, I then proceed to treat her as I’d treat a man who behaved in such thusly.
Of course in reality I’d go to prison for assault (at least) should I act in such a manner, but the fantasy scenario is often at least somewhat cathartic.
On which note: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDFN2xlo9mo
But as we’ve seen during various Mao-ling protests and ‘occupations’, some woke ladies seem keen to push into more physical territory, presumably while counting on the customary taboos regarding payment in kind, or on the fact that any physical retaliation would be a short-cut to that all-important victimhood status, with the retaliating male now deemed the villain of the piece.
What’s worth mentioning, and I’ve done so before, is that the women you describe choose their targets carefully, i.e. they make sure they’re nice, quiet middle-class men before screaming at them. Which is a problem if you are, like I suspect most on here, a nice middle-class man. Frankly, I’d never get myself anywhere near a situation like that.
Either way, it doesn’t much matter. They’re either not going to stick their necks out because their constituents see things similarly, thus democracy in action an a pox on the community or as R. Sherman says, It’s the 10,000 emails to their employers and the signs in their neighborhood threatening their kids..
Look, I’m with you in the condemnation from an absolute perspective. I’m just saying things are the way they are for a reason.
I’ve stuck my neck out in the business world on this sort of thing. What’s cute is how you get these private “atta-boys”, softly spoken, “Thank God someone said it”. But nobody is willing to do so publicly. They’ve got kids in private school, mortgages, boats, airplane hobbies, etc. And this is not just a political thing. It applies to a wide range of BS in society and business. People are afraid to speak up. What my inner feminist would like to see is more Italian-American women in engineering. While not a career killer (mostly because I’m an engineer and never much interested in management advancement, but also because I have some social respect in the worker-bee community), it’s not good for one’s “corporate image” when raises and promotions are being considered. And not something you want to explain to the wife when such stories come up with coworkers over beers.
But as we’ve seen during various Mao-ling protests and ‘occupations’, some woke ladies seem keen to push into more physical territory
I recall reading, many years ago, that women were often the most zealously cruel agents of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
Does anybody recall specific books that discuss or at least touch on this?
In a sleepy hamlet like New Brighton I think you are over estimating the threat…
As a resident of the Twin Cities, I will concede that New Brighton is indeed the sleepy suburb you describe. That being said, it’s a quick drive to New Brighton City Hall from Minneapolis’ 4th Precinct police station, and you can believe that the BLM organizers and the U of M feminist agitators and the various community organizers from both sides of the river would be more than happy to make an example out of any Privileged White Males who spoke out of turn. They’ve been looking for an excuse ever since the Castillo protests quieted down.
Given that these mobs are aided and abetted by the police and the Governor, I think you underestimate the potential (one might say probable) downside if these guys got picked up on Twitter and used to whip up the usual suspects.
Italian-American women are not to be messed with. Do not cross them.
There’s a certain celebrity
cultchurch that tried that with Leah Remini, to their ongoing dismay.