BREAKING NEWS: Man Still Doesn't Get That Women Are People, Too.

[happydalek]

This article.  How is this an acceptable blog post from a major news outlet?  Seriously, how?  Do we really need another article about a man pontificating (incorrectly) about the mystery of the hetero-normative female mind?  This reads like something a dude would say in his man-cave with his man-friends during a manly sporting event (see, I can be

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[alto2]

I was amused to see the Alan Alda reference--good lord, he was the poster child for the "sensitive" type 25 years or so ago. Do we not have anyone else to step into that role since then? I'd have hoped men AND women would have come further in that time, frankly--the need to single out one person as a role model for a certain type is pretty sad.

[happydalek]

Yeah, that really threw me, too! I watched M*A*S*H all the time, and personally? I never saw Alan Alda as the "sensitive" type anyhow. (Winning icon, by the way.) Modern "sensitive" guys...I dunno, back in the 90s maybe Brad Pitt? Ryan Gosling? Another thing that galled me a little is the assumption that men wouldn't be similarly swayed by shows of power and dominance by other men. You telling me men don't react to an "alpha" when they see one? Pssh.

[stoplookingup]

I grew up on and loved MASH too, but let's be honest - it was spun off from the most misogynistic movie ever, and it started out at that level, then gradually moderated to an attitude toward women that was schizophrenically inconsistent, at best.

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for my vagina to tell me who to vote for. Because obviously that's what I think with.

[alto2]

I've never thought Alan Alda (as representative of The Sensitive Man) was about anyone other than Alan Alda and the characters he's tended to play, though--I certainly never thought it was a reference to/only to Hawkeye Pierce.

As for the election, well, my totally-dependent-on-little-packs-of-pills girl parts are pretty clear on who to vote for, though for me, that's potentially enough to make me a single-issue voter. Fuck with my pills, buddy, and I ain't voting for you. (Though I've already voted by mail, so it's a done deal for me anyway!)

[stoplookingup]

Oh, my brain knows who to vote for. My vagina is stubbornly silent.

[alto2]

Mine is silent, but knows how to inflict great pain...