Echidne of the Snakes on an… interesting tendency in comments to posts by or about women
Imagine if I wrote like that about men! I wouldn’t do it, of course, because I don’t believe in reverse sexism any more than the old-fashioned sexism, but I would never get away with it. Yet these guys do seem to provoke no real outrage. I have read comments like these on Huffington Post, attached to various stories at mainstream news sites, on YouTube (OK, I give you the fact that YouTube commenters seem to come from some kind of green algae society but the sexism in the comments following women performers’ songs is stunning.), and now even at the website of the Finnish state television.
Yet the mainstream argument is that it is feminists who hate men!!!
It occurs to me from time to time that it doesn’t help, at all, that the majority of anti-feminist motivation derives from the also-interesting belief that women are moral paragons not so much because they’re naturally more moral, tidy, and virtuous but because (the belief goes) men are animals who would lick their butt the way dogs do if they could just reach it, and who would drink out of toilets too but for their moms telling them not to. With the result that every flaw in any man’s character “just goes to show” while any hint of clay in a woman’s feet becomes ZOMG!!!THEMBETRAYINGBICHESAREDRIVINGSOCIETYTORUIN!!!!!
Sigh.
It’s as if they see their “policing” of women as proof of their own desperate need to be lifted out of the sewers… they don’t recognize they actually occupy by choice.
