Irony is one of my favourite things in this world. I have found here a perfect example of just that. It might also be a case of supreme idiocy-- though, I suspect that it may be a political move that was from the very start intended to be counterproductive to its purported agenda.
The supposed goal is to erect a 45 foot statue of a nude woman in Washington DC, across from the "patriarchal symbol" of the obelisk, which represents the male phallus. The artist who created the structure, Marco Cochran, claims that the statue is part of a group of three which are supposed to represent what women would be like "if they were safe."
Furthermore, he says that he is doing this because of his childhood friend who was sexually abused. In this article he is quoted saying the following;
"It was incomprehensible, horrible, I never forgot, I never understood...it still haunts me," Cochran said. "I thought...that man couldn't have realized my friend was a person...if he really could see her, this wouldn't have happened."
So essentially what we have here, is an artist who claims to be against the objectification of women, because he believes it leads to rape, hoping to put an end to the objectification of women, by turning women into objects.
Naked objects, I might add. Massive, naked objects that bring attention only to the aesthetic beauty of the nude female form, and completely overlook the deeper aspects of humanity.
If anyone can explain to me how a lifeless statue of tits and arse, big enough for people to see from very far away, is going to do anything other than reinforce the growing sentiment among men that women are nothing but sex objects, then please do share.
It is far too difficult for me to believe that the feminists behind this, or even the artist himself, are stupid enough not to see that this will help reaffirm the ideology that they claim to be working towards putting an end to.
To a viewer, looking at a large, inanimate, faceless female figure, with such limited detail that the focus is drawn towards the sexual organs, is going to lead them to think of women as inanimate sex objects that have nothing more to offer than the statue has-- tits and arse.
My question to you is;
Why do you think there is such frequent reports of feminists taking actions that are counter-productive to the goals they are claiming to be chasing? What's really going on here? Because it is certainly nothing to do with equality, or with protecting women. I will share my own thoughts in the comments section a bit later. I first want to see what you guys have to say without influencing your answers.
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The rendering of the statue looks like it is enjoying thin privilege. Why is Martha such a hater?
I should be triggered.
The statue should be placed atop the Washington monument, and not on it's feet, for accuracy.
The reasons for the apparent self-destructive behaviors of feminism, like all leftist "ideology," are:
Extolling the demands of entitlements (desires) over the virtue of responsibility
Basing their behaviors solely upon their emotional state rather than upon reason and thought
Focusing upon perceptions rather than reality in formulating opinions
Feminism is a symptom of a disease that is modernism. As with any disease, it eats away the host from the inside, thus, the self-destructive and auto-cannibalizing nature of all leftist movements.
It seems to me that people like to always have an opinion about something, a fresh outlook. If it makes no sense it doesn't matter, as long as it seems intellectual.
Lol. Yes. Reminds me of Modern "Art".
The problem is that the patriarchy really exists, in the heads of feminists.
They are fighting an invisible boogyman that only they can see.
To them, it is everywhere. Everywhere they go, they see it.
The reality is that unmarried females are the largest voting block. And the voting variance is lower than any other group. They have basically decided all of the elections.
What they are upset with is that men have gone out and conquered the world. Men have made the world safe. And they resent that, because they cannot do the same. (it isn't enough that they exclusively make babies)
So, self destructively, these, the safest women who have ever lived, want danger and excitement. Narcissistically they want to put it all out there and get all of the attention, while remaining safe and further, they want to decide who gets to see their public displays.
It is my understanding that the people's vote is really just for show, and that it is the electoral college that ultimately decides on who will be president. Am I misunderstanding this? And if not, why would it matter about keeping a redundant voting constituency happy?
Layers upon layers.
Currently, each state has so many electoral votes, and so they hold an election to see who those electoral college people will vote for. Some states have laws that say the electoral college must vote the way the people said. However, those people do decide who will be president. But, there has never been a time they have gone against what the media has reported as the winner during the election.
So, in theory, we vote for the president indirectly.
However, do the people who we are allowed to vote for taken from the ranks of the people? No. All of them where selected to be presidential candidates well before hand. Any not in "the big club" are not allowed to rise up in the primaries. You can know this because of the number of presidents who have been in the "Skull and Bones" club. And the number of presidents who were part of Bohemian Grove. The odds that this is random would be similar to all the presidents being born on the same day of the year.
It's a good thing aunt-deb muted son of satire or you would have a most unpleasant conversation ahead of you, LOL.
I do agree with your second statement. Though your third...I find it hard to imagine the feminists I have encountered voting for our current president. They hate him. Unless you think they did it to have something further to complain about?
Ha, I'm not a feminist by any means- aunt-deb muted me too for defending the author of this blog and men in general- but even I'm cringing at statement number four.
I doubt the reasons for what they do are quite as simple as you summed up in your last statement. Though I've met my share of narcissistic feminists...I suspect there are a good number of narcissistic chauvinists as well ;)
There is a lot of study behind my statements. However, I do recognize that I am not the best when try to state things that are not already in the greater public sphere.
A few things on this last election.
On #4, let me try to put it another way. In a fight for your life kind of world, women are at an extreme disadvantage (individually). Men are stronger. Men can provide for themselves, even with no support. Men have the minds that think of community helping things (houses, etc). And, the society of men was built around this hierarchy of meeting needs. Basically, women are upset at their own bodies, for not measuring up (in a man's world) But, this seems to be more based on that we lost the woman's world. What used to be the feminine groups that held communities together. So, the two together have made women resentful and unhappy.
I do not put men above women. Men, indeed, have a great number of problems too. What I have seen lately, in the "rape hysteria" has been women who go out and get falling down drunk, and their response is to say, its men's responsibility to not rape me. Further, if you are not one of the top 20% of guys, approaching a woman can often get you a nuclear rejection. Its not, sorry, I am not interested... Its thanks for buying me a drink, now drop dead, because I wouldn't even give you the time of day if you were the last man on earth, and stop staring at me (and my extremely low cut blouse and shortest skirt) because you are being a real creep.
I think the generalizing is what will get you in trouble, saying 'women' rather than 'certain women'. I suspect you're right about a lot of what you say in terms of feminazis, and to a lesser degree women who consider themselves very independent.
The rape hysteria annoys the hell out of me, I do not believe that having sex when you're wasted is the man's fault or should be considered rape of any kind. If it were me I would take responsibility, I'm sure there's a good chance that the guy in the situation is pretty loaded too. If a woman is held down and forced when she clearly doesn't want it, that's rape. Using that word in all of these other situations is an insult to women who have actually been raped, which I imagine is a very traumatic experience.
Yeah, obviously when a woman dresses provocatively she is doing so to attract attention, and if she thinks she's only going to get the attention of those she wants attention from she's either a special kind of stupid or highly deluded.
I'm not really clear what constitutes a top 20% guy, do you mean wealthy? And I have to say it sounds as if you've had some bitter experiences. Maybe it's your location? What you're describing isn't as common where I'm from.
I actually think the real problem is men and women no longer know their roles in today's society. It's natural for a woman to want to be protected and provided for, to take care of the children and the home, but they're being taught that it's degrading. It's all part of an agenda to break down the family, which is evidenced by the extremely high divorce rates. Girls from a young age are being taught to use sex as either a tool or a reward, rather than it being a natural act of love. Over the years I've had a number of friends that withhold sex from their partners until certain conditions are met, then they're shocked when their men cheat. I try to explain to them that a guy needs to feel desired, and that most cheating is not about the other woman being more attractive but rather she makes them feel attractive.
Seriously, who would you rather go to bed with, a beautiful girl who's like "Fine, get it over with" or a cute girl who's like "Come here you sexy man". (Considering what you wrote at the end you might also want to think about the kind of women you're approaching and broaden your search a bit? Look for the ones with genuine smiles and especially laughter)
Good advice. But, its not about me. My mother destroyed me from ever being able to form a loving, sexual relationship.
There are studies and on going research.
Like one, that gave a random sampling of photos to guys and girls.
Men said they would date 80% of the those pictured.
Women said they would date 20% of those pictured.
This also holds with data from plenty of fish and other such sites.
You do realize that when you put together the two points you made :
and
together they make the point that women are completely justified in being very particular in trying to pick the the right man for her future needs as they (the women) are going to pay a high price if they choose badly. Many men seem to resent that women are so choosy if a woman decides on meeting him that another man might better suit her future needs. You don't end up married to the guys you don't date.
I would agree with you, accept for math.
Sure, from a woman's point of view, aiming for that top 20% is the thing to do.
Accept that, 80 women, (of each 100) are trying to marry 20 guys.
60 women are going to fail.
Unless of course, we start allowing multiple wives.
I will love to use the word of one of my lecturer. This is just a clear example of the "Thingification" of the female gender.
Just another way of presenting women as mere sex objects.
To your question, Feminism as a movement isn't unified. There are different forms of feminism coming up and they all have conflicting views. I think this is one of the problem.
Well I was going to say something here, but builder of castles has made me forget what it was entirely haha!
Now I'm just waiting for you to share your further thoughts...
My apologies. I forgot to share my thoughts until I just read your discussion with builderofcastles.
I have began to suspect that there is something deeper going on here. Something that starts in school and continues throughout our entire lives. I suppose you could call it, "cognitive dissonance by design." The idea was introduced to me when I was speaking to my brother about the amount of conflicting information that they give to him in university. It led me down a path where I thought on many of the contradictory facts that I had been taught while growing up, and also to the reverse nature of our world. By that I mean how the title of something is often counter to its actual function in reality.
I then started to consider if all of this was intentional, what effect it would have on the human mind. Obviously this is merely speculation, but it seems to me that if you continuously barrage someone with facts that contradict one another from a very young age, eventually the mind would reach a state of utter confusion. I feel at this point, there is one of two things that could happen. Either the mind continuously tries to make sense of all of its conflicting information, which would be a huge drain on resources which would surely impact other cognitive functions- or, the mind cannot deal with all of the conflicts anymore, and starts to ignore them, perhaps to again, save the mental resources that are being wasted trying to make sense of what does not make sense.
Both of these conditions could explain why logic is disappearing from society so quickly, and why it seems people are getting dumber and dumber as the years go on. And this condition of perpetual confusion, caused by induced cognitive dissonance, could easily be reinforced by information such as in this article- turning women into objects in order to stop them getting objectified, and also many other things we are seeing on the media lately.
I have failed to articulate this very well, but I do plan to write a much more in depth version of this as a post at some point in the future, once I have given it more thought. I feel I am onto something though. Perhaps not with why it is happening, or what it might do to the brain, but with this idea of conditioning us with cognitive dissonance purposefully from as early as possible. I am rather curious to know what others might think we would be subjected to this, if it is intentional, and what effects it would have on our minds.
But yes, I also think there is definitely an ongoing, and terrifyingly coordinated effort to skew men and women's viewpoints of one another to a point where they no longer recognise the opposite sex as human. You can love a human. And they do not want us to love one another. As cheesy as it may sound, love is far too powerful. Why? Because it binds us to one another. Divide and conquer, which is really what this and almost every other political ideology comes down to in the end, does not work on a community of people that love one another. They cannot be divided. I believe this is what all this labeling and dehumanizing of other groups is really all about. To make it too difficult for us to love each other the way we really ought to. Then we are only left with tiny groups of misinformed people who would sooner war with each other than the overlords who pit us against one another.
Well put. There is indeed a continuing move to insert illogic into every aspect of the public mind. We have, in law, the government now propagandizing the People, with our own money.
"Consent of the Governed", wait till I stop laughing. Oh yeah, it's not funny.
Remember, CIA director William Casey is reported to have said,
Those that wish to divide us will keep trying until every individual is divided against all the rest. Then we''ll have to have individual rights to protect us from everyone else. Hey wait, aren't we supposed to already have individual rights?
Bravo, well said. That last in particular, is so apparent to me at this point. It is why you'll often see me end comments with an endearment. The people I've gotten to know on steemit- I don't have to have met them to love them. Love is by far the greatest weapon we have at our disposal against the powers that wish to see us divided. I even think that it's the reason they haven't brought a ground war to the US, there are still too many small communities who would not be persuaded to turn on one another. The one I live in for example.
However when my parent's generation leaves this earth, a generation where they still exchange gifts and cookies and fudge with the neighborhood at Christmas, where if there is a crisis with one family the whole neighborhood comes together to help, the town even--I worry what will happen when they're gone. The generation just behind them still believes in community to an extent, but many of them have not passed this down to their children and so on. Instead they've allowed the schools to 'educate' them, not even realizing exactly what that indoctrination entails.
And it's much worse in the bigger cities. They've already lost all sense of community, they avoid their neighbors for fear of 'stranger danger'.
Oh, and I love you Scott ;) xo
There are so many people moving in and out of communities as jobs are less stable and moving and communicating is much easier. It's hard to commit to a community when people don't stay put.
Best Wishes and loving thoughts ;-)
That is a very good point. My husband and I moved to Florida for a number of years, we only returned when my dad's health began to fail and my mom needed our help and our company. The closeness of this particular community was far more apparent when I returned.
I really enjoyed Florida, the change of scenery and atmosphere, but it never felt like home. I like new experiences so now our plan is get a camper or RV and travel, but keep this as our home base :)
Much love to you too!
Whoo Hoo! Road Trip!
I'm almost convinced that the architects of 3rd wave feminism are a bunch of misogynists who wished to turn women into base consciousness sexual objects who are the antithesis of everything that has historically made women unique and awesome.
-The ability to literally grow life inside one's own body perpetuating the human race.
-Being mothers
-Raising a family
All of these things have either been demonized or dismissed as unimportant or oppressive.
Yeah let's get to the really important stuff, like being able to run around nude, engage in promiscuity, indiscriminately abort our children and get a job in some cubicle...
Like a bunch of mental retards, No, that's an insult to people born with developmental disabilities.
These are willfully ignorant dupes, marching into their own misery and self destruction.
Enjoy what ya get girls!
Ahhh, femisim...As a woman I am compelled to leave a comment :) human reaction,hahaha..Feminism and all the other 'isms'... Here another ideology is sprouted from the human mind , trying to make it's way to tangible reality! Good to see you're still rocking that pen Son! Provoking those thoughts!🤔 So my answer is ☯ Equality, a balance to attain, accepting the whole, the ying, the yang. As you said before it is love and compassion that can alter the balance. But are humans capable of evolution? To go past the fact that this world is full of suffering and people living injustice, fighting for acceptance, fighting to be heard, fighting each other, still fighting each other no matter what the cause. Forever in opposition to what is. The past cannot be changed, fighting does not produce love. Intelligent as we may think we are, we still end up acting primitive. We are men and women, two different sexes, deep in opposition but interconnected, interdependent, the ying, the yang... Will this world ever free itself from racism? Will any movement triumph over the other ?Will any total change ever truly exist,nope. For one to exist, so must the other. One battle is won,another is born... Women are awesome beautiful and complex creatures😘,men are mysterious beautiful and inspiring creatures too💪🏻😘 So maybe one day we will love ourselves for what we are🍾🤖
Thank you for the useful post. Continue in the same direction.
Thank you for carrying this flag for me. It was getting heavy.
You have Dreamcatchers as a username and yet you copy paste on sentence on so many posts ... So,is this the way you wanna make your dreams come true ..??
And now we also have Islamic feminists!!!
I might argue they are the only ones that should exist. Though, most of what I know of Islam was learned on a screen, so fuck knows if what I have seen is even what is going on. I can't believe anything anymore, man.
Whoo Hoo! This month the women in Saudi Arabia acquired the right to drive and to take tests for driving licences without needing approval from a male family member!