Today is a momentous occasion:
I, Crystal Tania Lynn Chandler, am going out to dinner and a movie with girls from school. That's right, with GIRLS. From SCHOOL. Thank you, you all may now quiet your shock and celebration.
I leave in 15 minutes and I've got nervous tummy over it. I tend to rub girls my age the wrong way for some reason, so I've got to be on my best behaviour. But then again...these are the girls who thought my paper on women in banned videos was brilliant--and I was so NOT arguing the Women's Lib point of view, if you catch my meaning.
Can a woman be a chauvenist? I think it might be possible. I know there are more out there, we should get Members-only jackets and have a secret handshake. We can hold meetings down at the local coffee shop where we will discuss how to properly iron our mens' slacks while managing to plan an entire week's menu in our heads.
Ok, so maybe not. I'm as liberated as the next female, but I don't see the need to get in-yo-face about it. All this talk of equality and blah-di-blah; do we even stop to think what equality with men would be like? If we were to go with the stereotype here, we'd have to do all of the following:
-Crush beer cans on our forheads
-Have multiple, meaningless sexual encounters which we brag about in exaggerated detail to our buddies
-Hunt
-Watch football
-Make terrible jokes that only we laugh at
-Produce sperm
I'm sorry, but there is not a one of those things on that short, and by no means exclusive, list that I would want to accomplish--especially that last one!
Nature made males and females different for a reason, folks. At the most basic level, men are meant to be human sex machines, and women are meant to bear children that will perpetuate this vicious cycle. As society progresses, it falls to reason that women and men will evolve into different and yet complimentary roles springing from our basic functions.
Women do not need to be so aggressive. We can work with what we've got, which is what my music video paper tries to communicate. Men see us as sexual objects, so what? Is there something wrong with affecting a man so much he looses all cognitive reasoning in admiration of that one trait which we, as a female race, seem to find so offensive? Ok you Women's Libbers, turn the table. Objectify men, I know most of you do anyway. It's not a terrible thing, and it's wholly different from abuse and exploitation. The biggest problem is a lack of self-esteem. When women are comfortable with themselves, forsaking everyone else's opinion, then we shall all have no problem with this self-imposed inequality.
Besides, equality is just a fancy way to say "the same" and who among us wants to be just the same as a man? No, no. What we want is recognition for our lovely and wonderful differences.
THAT, my loves, is the thing.
[eta: I think I'm going to leave this public. LOVE to hear what you have to say...]
I leave in 15 minutes and I've got nervous tummy over it. I tend to rub girls my age the wrong way for some reason, so I've got to be on my best behaviour. But then again...these are the girls who thought my paper on women in banned videos was brilliant--and I was so NOT arguing the Women's Lib point of view, if you catch my meaning.
Can a woman be a chauvenist? I think it might be possible. I know there are more out there, we should get Members-only jackets and have a secret handshake. We can hold meetings down at the local coffee shop where we will discuss how to properly iron our mens' slacks while managing to plan an entire week's menu in our heads.
Ok, so maybe not. I'm as liberated as the next female, but I don't see the need to get in-yo-face about it. All this talk of equality and blah-di-blah; do we even stop to think what equality with men would be like? If we were to go with the stereotype here, we'd have to do all of the following:
-Crush beer cans on our forheads
-Have multiple, meaningless sexual encounters which we brag about in exaggerated detail to our buddies
-Hunt
-Watch football
-Make terrible jokes that only we laugh at
-Produce sperm
I'm sorry, but there is not a one of those things on that short, and by no means exclusive, list that I would want to accomplish--especially that last one!
Nature made males and females different for a reason, folks. At the most basic level, men are meant to be human sex machines, and women are meant to bear children that will perpetuate this vicious cycle. As society progresses, it falls to reason that women and men will evolve into different and yet complimentary roles springing from our basic functions.
Women do not need to be so aggressive. We can work with what we've got, which is what my music video paper tries to communicate. Men see us as sexual objects, so what? Is there something wrong with affecting a man so much he looses all cognitive reasoning in admiration of that one trait which we, as a female race, seem to find so offensive? Ok you Women's Libbers, turn the table. Objectify men, I know most of you do anyway. It's not a terrible thing, and it's wholly different from abuse and exploitation. The biggest problem is a lack of self-esteem. When women are comfortable with themselves, forsaking everyone else's opinion, then we shall all have no problem with this self-imposed inequality.
Besides, equality is just a fancy way to say "the same" and who among us wants to be just the same as a man? No, no. What we want is recognition for our lovely and wonderful differences.
THAT, my loves, is the thing.
[eta: I think I'm going to leave this public. LOVE to hear what you have to say...]