Uh, sweetie, there is no such thing as patriarchy. Men are not watching you, aunt Lydia is. The police of women is and always has been women. Men are too mysogenic to bother.
BTW, patriarchy and mysogenic were autocorrected to pastries and mystified, so that's pretty funny.
One thing that became clear to me when I became a dad to a daughter is that, yeah, boys are pretty stupid. Not just by their own natural talents, but society actually tolerates and enables it.
"...Misogyny — along with racism and antisemitism — is the greatest security issue that the American people face today, because the people entrusted with maintaining our information ecosystem are presenting skewed versions of the world to the rest of us, because they are not examining their own biases and the cultures that produce them."
As a practitioner of INFOSEC in my shoot gig, let me say "LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!"
I saw a headline in the washington post…Trump seems to have mislead gold star families about the number of deaths in Afghanistan during his administration” then the analysis (facts) show that many died in Afghanistan while he was in office. Wtf? Seems to have misled….i reiterate WTF
As an ancient, whose mother was Sister Mary Misogynist, I'd like to say that the worst fcking misogyny, which happens to conceive, incubate, welp, and finish ALL misogyny comes from women. A lot of those gals will be voting for PO1135809 and JealousDude Vance. Both my sisters will, Haley will, 80% of Texas women will and all will swear it's "the issues." It's not.
I was interning at a local TV station when I walked across the set to give the male anchor a script he'd requested. He thanked me, and then I heard a voice behind me saying to the anchor "You fucking her?"
The anchor looked shocked, I turned around and there was our news director, the shit. I ignored him, walked past him, and went back to work. I got a million of 'em.
Early in 2016 I started noticing women killing themselves. Each report came as an isolated story but patterns coalesced: they were middle-aged, self-supporting, "successful" and lived alone, often in beautiful places like southwestern Colorado, which particularly struck me since I'd been there once and wanted to return.
It did not seem like coincidence that this was happening at the same time Donald Trump captured the imagination of so many, including those in the media, with his Rosie O'Donnell attacks in that infamous debate. It was implicitly open season on imperfect aging women, and we felt it.
I pursued this into the world of true crime TV, where I found a barrage of messages about women aimed squarely at us. In the prestige world of Dateline, 2016 culminated with one resounding one: You are guilty, and you deserve what you get.
We have been struggling to free ourselves ever since.
Boomer here - and you are right one the money. Hearing Kamala say "I'm talking" thrilled me to my toes. Two words, that most of my generation of women NEVER SAID. We plowed the first few rows, but many of us got worn out fighting the fight. Keep taking to them.
“becoming convinced that a big chunk of the world’s population is inferior and untrustworthy”
Yeah, about that. Where the problem arises is a big chunk of the world’s population - or at least America’s population - IS inferior and untrustworthy. Fortunately for the rest of us, they’ve taken to wearing these red hats that make them fairly easy to identify.
I couldn't agree more, although you were a bit more restrained than I would be. First, I am a 52 year old white male who has lived the majority of my life in the deep South. That said, the only demographic that I truly and deeply despise, are white males, many of them, originally from,or transplants to, the deep South. I remember the conversations announcing/explaining the wonders of Donald Trump giving a voice to those who haven't been heard...First off, if "they" hadn't been previously "heard", the main reason would be because they're Fucking ignorant (willfully AND inherently) and absolutely full of shit. And what have they stated, with said voice? Nothing but racist, sexist, bullshit and terroristic threats of violence if they don't get their way. Impotent cowards make threats because they can't make any rational, valid, arguments to 'validate' their views because it really comes down to the fact that they are angry and frustrated because, other than their lack of melanin ( which they seem to think , gives them special consideration, everybody gets a trophy!) and tiny dick-based rage, there is nothing remotely remarkable about them, other than a complete lack of self awareness and character. And in a just and reasonable world, they will be treated as they deserve to be; as pariahs and failures. But when that doughy, amoral, fucking clown entered the political arena, they had a Messiah who would protect them and raise them up to their rightful shrine of power and retribution. As if that draft-dodging coward and rapist could/would do anything for anyone but himself. And even if he wasn't a total twat, it's not as if he could magically fill their empty fucking heads and remove a lifetime of ignorance, dysfunction, amorality, and ingrained white supremacy bullshit from their psychology. He doesn't care any more about these fucking choads than I do, and I despise their fucking existence. And they aren't racists and misogynists because they believe they're superior. It's because deep down they realize that they are inferior. Like that blithering, sobbing, little fucking murderer Rittenhouse, they're scared, impotent, little dickless cowards clutching their AR-15s, instead of their pearls, and praying their fat, orange, God will vanquish everyone who sees them for what they are, hate-filled losers who are terrified of an America with an even playing field, where they won't get special treatment for being white, stupid, and pathetic. And I blame the media for treating Trump and his cultists like they aren't an abomination and an embarrassment, to serve their shareholders at the cost of 100,000's of lives and our national integrity, so the big pussy won't cry "Not fair!" if he gets treated like the shit stain he and his sheep truly are. And if that senile rapist asshole were to get into the white house again, this country doesn't deserve to exist. It's revolting that there were enough soulless turds in this country that looked at that lump of shit and said"That's my leader" to put his worthless fat ass in the white House. Until then, I had no idea how worthless and soulless so many of my "countryman" were. Fuck em.
And stupidity fuels their misogyny!
That is because misogynist’s world revolves around their penis.
That is not supposed to be the organ used for thinking.
Uh, sweetie, there is no such thing as patriarchy. Men are not watching you, aunt Lydia is. The police of women is and always has been women. Men are too mysogenic to bother.
BTW, patriarchy and mysogenic were autocorrected to pastries and mystified, so that's pretty funny.
Should be misogynistic. Mysogenic sounded like a word, lol.
One thing that became clear to me when I became a dad to a daughter is that, yeah, boys are pretty stupid. Not just by their own natural talents, but society actually tolerates and enables it.
Stupidity plus testicles makes you misogynistic.
Thank you so much for this piece, Ms Binkowski. Every single word of it.
Wow.
You write goodly, and
Honestly.
Thanks for reminding me about the unrelenting BS we have endured.
As a 70 year old white Midwest male, it's not easy being green.
And, I collect screenshots of
PLAID !
I might be Scottish.
"...Misogyny — along with racism and antisemitism — is the greatest security issue that the American people face today, because the people entrusted with maintaining our information ecosystem are presenting skewed versions of the world to the rest of us, because they are not examining their own biases and the cultures that produce them."
As a practitioner of INFOSEC in my shoot gig, let me say "LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!"
I saw a headline in the washington post…Trump seems to have mislead gold star families about the number of deaths in Afghanistan during his administration” then the analysis (facts) show that many died in Afghanistan while he was in office. Wtf? Seems to have misled….i reiterate WTF
He seems to be, maybe, a fascist too
As an ancient, whose mother was Sister Mary Misogynist, I'd like to say that the worst fcking misogyny, which happens to conceive, incubate, welp, and finish ALL misogyny comes from women. A lot of those gals will be voting for PO1135809 and JealousDude Vance. Both my sisters will, Haley will, 80% of Texas women will and all will swear it's "the issues." It's not.
I cannot really agree as long as Vance, trumpy, et. al., exist. They set a high bar for misogyny.
But, but but....they're all good yt Christians....
Sad…
I was interning at a local TV station when I walked across the set to give the male anchor a script he'd requested. He thanked me, and then I heard a voice behind me saying to the anchor "You fucking her?"
The anchor looked shocked, I turned around and there was our news director, the shit. I ignored him, walked past him, and went back to work. I got a million of 'em.
Early in 2016 I started noticing women killing themselves. Each report came as an isolated story but patterns coalesced: they were middle-aged, self-supporting, "successful" and lived alone, often in beautiful places like southwestern Colorado, which particularly struck me since I'd been there once and wanted to return.
It did not seem like coincidence that this was happening at the same time Donald Trump captured the imagination of so many, including those in the media, with his Rosie O'Donnell attacks in that infamous debate. It was implicitly open season on imperfect aging women, and we felt it.
I pursued this into the world of true crime TV, where I found a barrage of messages about women aimed squarely at us. In the prestige world of Dateline, 2016 culminated with one resounding one: You are guilty, and you deserve what you get.
We have been struggling to free ourselves ever since.
Good men might, but it's trumpy who's running for President.
Boomer here - and you are right one the money. Hearing Kamala say "I'm talking" thrilled me to my toes. Two words, that most of my generation of women NEVER SAID. We plowed the first few rows, but many of us got worn out fighting the fight. Keep taking to them.
“becoming convinced that a big chunk of the world’s population is inferior and untrustworthy”
Yeah, about that. Where the problem arises is a big chunk of the world’s population - or at least America’s population - IS inferior and untrustworthy. Fortunately for the rest of us, they’ve taken to wearing these red hats that make them fairly easy to identify.
This might be of interest to you. Your article is linked over on Fark.com
Doing quite well. I've been a subscriber for a few years now. Like Wonkette, I enjoy their attitude.
I couldn't agree more, although you were a bit more restrained than I would be. First, I am a 52 year old white male who has lived the majority of my life in the deep South. That said, the only demographic that I truly and deeply despise, are white males, many of them, originally from,or transplants to, the deep South. I remember the conversations announcing/explaining the wonders of Donald Trump giving a voice to those who haven't been heard...First off, if "they" hadn't been previously "heard", the main reason would be because they're Fucking ignorant (willfully AND inherently) and absolutely full of shit. And what have they stated, with said voice? Nothing but racist, sexist, bullshit and terroristic threats of violence if they don't get their way. Impotent cowards make threats because they can't make any rational, valid, arguments to 'validate' their views because it really comes down to the fact that they are angry and frustrated because, other than their lack of melanin ( which they seem to think , gives them special consideration, everybody gets a trophy!) and tiny dick-based rage, there is nothing remotely remarkable about them, other than a complete lack of self awareness and character. And in a just and reasonable world, they will be treated as they deserve to be; as pariahs and failures. But when that doughy, amoral, fucking clown entered the political arena, they had a Messiah who would protect them and raise them up to their rightful shrine of power and retribution. As if that draft-dodging coward and rapist could/would do anything for anyone but himself. And even if he wasn't a total twat, it's not as if he could magically fill their empty fucking heads and remove a lifetime of ignorance, dysfunction, amorality, and ingrained white supremacy bullshit from their psychology. He doesn't care any more about these fucking choads than I do, and I despise their fucking existence. And they aren't racists and misogynists because they believe they're superior. It's because deep down they realize that they are inferior. Like that blithering, sobbing, little fucking murderer Rittenhouse, they're scared, impotent, little dickless cowards clutching their AR-15s, instead of their pearls, and praying their fat, orange, God will vanquish everyone who sees them for what they are, hate-filled losers who are terrified of an America with an even playing field, where they won't get special treatment for being white, stupid, and pathetic. And I blame the media for treating Trump and his cultists like they aren't an abomination and an embarrassment, to serve their shareholders at the cost of 100,000's of lives and our national integrity, so the big pussy won't cry "Not fair!" if he gets treated like the shit stain he and his sheep truly are. And if that senile rapist asshole were to get into the white house again, this country doesn't deserve to exist. It's revolting that there were enough soulless turds in this country that looked at that lump of shit and said"That's my leader" to put his worthless fat ass in the white House. Until then, I had no idea how worthless and soulless so many of my "countryman" were. Fuck em.
Angry, and frustrated, is right.
And yet, they tend to run things.
We are better than this.
"Our better angels"
Abe Lincoln.
Keep hope alive.
I was raised in segregated Texas, so I had *some* idea (not that I acted on it until adulthood). Other than that, I could have well written the above.