Snitty Women
Snitty Women
From the "Oh, please" files, women readers of the Times of London "expose casual sexism."
From reader Lucy Jenkins:
Megan Fox, rising Hollywood starlet: "I think all the women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandise, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's OK. I think women should be empowered by it, not degraded."Aggggghhhhhhhh. What happened to intelligence, talent, hard work, entrepreneurial spirit and personality? And since when have we been "products"? Women don't help themselves sometimes.
Ladies, save for men wanting to have sex with naked or semi-naked women with hot bodies (and the same goes for males of all species), the planet would be populated mainly by rocks, plankton, and weird spiny creatures.
When I want intelligence, hard work, entrepreneurial spirt and personality, I hang out with Barb Oakley, who happens to be one of the first women in the army to be trained on the M-16.
Tragically, when we're together, she tends to avoid leaping around Angelina Jolie-style, in a black leather bustier, and blowing away terrorists. For that sort of thing, I go to a darkened movie theater with Gregg.
Speaking of women engineers (Barb is an engineering prof and the former head of the engineering society), here's a little engineering-oriented whine from a girl named Emma:
A friend of mine who works in the engineering industry, having graduated with a first for her masters degree, was giving a presentation on her company's newest advancement to some industry bigwigs. Less than five minutes in, the biggest wig there, in the centre of the front row, put his hand up and asked if she actually knew what she was talking about or if she was just the looker. No one said anything in her defence.
Emma, darling, please tell us why her lips were taped shut with electrical tape, prohibiting her from speaking up in her own behalf.
All the better to whine about "casual sexism" than focusing on serious sexism, like the kind in Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia. There, some women are trying to repeal "guardian laws," which treat women like pets -- saying women need a male relative's permission to do just about anything. But, never mind that -- do as Allison Smith does on the ToL site, and sniffle about how male celebrities don't have to expose flesh on the red carpet.
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