Feminism 2.0 or why you should hit women
So girls don't really get hit. I don't mean their husbands/boyfriends/whatever don't hit them. I mean, as a little boy, violence is part of your life. If you're too bad, you'll get a spanking, or a slap, or an aggressive grab followed by being thrust into a chair or corner. If you're too good, you'll get called a teacher's pet or something and get beat up by your peers. If you're a 20 year old male, in any country in the world, and haven't been punched at least once in both the head and the body, I'm 100% sure you're a statistically insignificant outlier. In fact I'd bet that more than 50% of men have been 'beat up' as in being functionally unable to fight back any more against an assailant. Most of boys games (and all sports) revolve around physically dominating each other. Competition or even outright conflict. But even playing cops and robbers, and soldiers/war/army/whatever you called it (as well as a girl's playing house) are psychologically modeling status and socio-cultural constructs. Us versus them, good and bad, better and not, hierarchy, status roles, etc.
But you don't hit girls. Any 'good' boy knows that. As a result, the first time a girl is assaulted...it is horrifying. This maxim both protects, and makes her less able to protect herself. For most boys, that first assault occurred so long ago that we don't often even remember the exact event. It's just "normal". But this also means that women are more vulnerable to violence. Because they have no prior exposure to it. This is not to say that they should. But the world, even the adult world, is permeated by violence. If you don't believe me, walk down a dark alley and tell me you don't feel like your "fight-or-flight" response is the window maximized on your brain's 'screen'. Even in a 'civilized' setting, the office, or the social sphere the currents and penalties are just shadows of physical violence, in a way, gossip or shunning are just more sophisticated ways of bullying someone, than simple physical violence (and in fact, are often the reasons boys choose to fight, or at least the fear of them.)
Also, as a consequence of rights becoming more equal, there will/should be expected to be a rise in 'violence against women' statistics. Until the rates of violence both between and inside genders 'normalizes'. This is why I've always said 'don't hit women' is a...useless slogan or goal, and even, not a feminist goal, at least...end-game-wise. Because, at a certain point, it creates special, protected classes in society. If we want true equality, then...there has to be a girl, who is the best at X position in Y sports, because she's the toughest kid on the block. Or, we have to completely eliminate violence. Which...seems less likely from a realistic standpoint.
I'm not really saying anyone should hit women. I was mostly doing that in a desperate plea for attention. Sry.
(The above is a logically consistent idea, at least to me, or thought-experiment, not a 'fact' or something I would call my ideology even.)
K.
But you don't hit girls. Any 'good' boy knows that. As a result, the first time a girl is assaulted...it is horrifying. This maxim both protects, and makes her less able to protect herself. For most boys, that first assault occurred so long ago that we don't often even remember the exact event. It's just "normal". But this also means that women are more vulnerable to violence. Because they have no prior exposure to it. This is not to say that they should. But the world, even the adult world, is permeated by violence. If you don't believe me, walk down a dark alley and tell me you don't feel like your "fight-or-flight" response is the window maximized on your brain's 'screen'. Even in a 'civilized' setting, the office, or the social sphere the currents and penalties are just shadows of physical violence, in a way, gossip or shunning are just more sophisticated ways of bullying someone, than simple physical violence (and in fact, are often the reasons boys choose to fight, or at least the fear of them.)
Also, as a consequence of rights becoming more equal, there will/should be expected to be a rise in 'violence against women' statistics. Until the rates of violence both between and inside genders 'normalizes'. This is why I've always said 'don't hit women' is a...useless slogan or goal, and even, not a feminist goal, at least...end-game-wise. Because, at a certain point, it creates special, protected classes in society. If we want true equality, then...there has to be a girl, who is the best at X position in Y sports, because she's the toughest kid on the block. Or, we have to completely eliminate violence. Which...seems less likely from a realistic standpoint.
I'm not really saying anyone should hit women. I was mostly doing that in a desperate plea for attention. Sry.
(The above is a logically consistent idea, at least to me, or thought-experiment, not a 'fact' or something I would call my ideology even.)
K.