Not built for this conflict??
This guy (who has half a million followers) –
There is nothing even slightly “respectful” about telling a woman to “fall back” and let the men take over. (There’s also nothing respectful about telling women to support men like Matt Walsh – who is a conservative Catholic who opposes abortion rights.) It’s all the more insulting when the woman in question is a philanthropic self-made millionaire (former billionaire demoted because she gave so much money away).
Telling us to fall back – or shut up or go away or sit down or do the laundry – is what this is all about. We’re not going to fall back when men in skirts tell us to and we’re not going to fall back when godbothering sports commentators tell us to either. You fall back.
For those of you who don’t follow sports, let me assure you that Whitlock is every bit as shitty a sports writer as he is on other issues. He also isn’t really a guy you want to take advice from on leadership — ESPN once put him in charge of a new black-focused sports commentary site to be called The Undefeated, and he was such a terrible recruiter and manager of talent that it was the subject of several long pieces.
Oh really?! Good to know. Thanks Screechy, I’d never heard of him before.
He’s right that men are the cause of this mess, but it does not follow that women therefore need to hush and follow the manly man on the issue. Women are at the forefront of this dispute because it is women specifically that bear the brunt of this erosion of boundaries, and so shortly after those boundaries were won in the first place that many of those that fought for them then are still here and still fighting.
I’m afraid I have to disagree here and say that Jason Whitlock is right and Matt Walsh should be applauded for his stance.
I know he is right because as women keep telling us, they do all the work, and then men swoop in to take the credit. This is the natural order of the Universe.
Just who does this Rowling woman think she is, denying the accolades to the most recent male to the cause? It’s not like she’s got skin in the game like Matt and Jason have.
You had me going for a second there.
:-)
“and I sincerely mean respectfully” is what really puts it over the top as the most idiotic thing I’ve read in quite a while,
“You’re not built for this conflict.”
Au contraire, Pierre. It’s how women are built different that is the source of the conflict. Women are “built for” all kinds of trauma and conflict, especially the kind that men disparage as meaningless.