No, it really isn’t. We already have a powerful tool to address the oppression of women: feminism. We don’t need a hipster bro to come along and tell us how awesome gender theory is. If he wants to help he could just tell his fellow hipster bros to shut up and let feminists talk.
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10 responses to “Reinventing the theorywheel”
You’re kidding, right?
You, a mere woman, want to tell a man to shut up and listen. I don’t think that’s how all this works.
The problem with feminism is it was started by women, for women, and women have been doing it wrong the whole time. Now, a man wants to set you on the right path and you are rude to him.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Betty Friedan, Helen Reddy, Germaine Greer, Susan Anthony – what did they ever do for us (men)?
Gender Theory: the Oppression of Women
1.) Women are oppressed by men on the basis of their gender identification as “women.”
2.) This is apparently because there was a coin toss in ancient times and they lost (currently being researched.)
3.) One solution to female oppression, therefore, is to identify as a “man.”
4.) Them’s the rules.
5.) You’re welcome.
Sastra, I think you forgot the most important steps, as taught to us by the underpants gnomes:
6.) ???
7.) Profit.
Given the way corporations embrace gender theory, 7 seems particularly motivating.
What’s an “expert independant”? Someone who knows a lot about things you put on necklaces?
@4 That was bugging me too. I thought it might be the French spelling, but it’s missing the acute accent over the E, so it seems to be a misspelling either way. I suppose it could be spelled in a language I’m not familiar with. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think it is indeed the French spelling (and word order). Some people omit accents on capital letters (a hangover from the days when typewriters couldn’t put them), and some claim that that is right. I ignore them and would write it EXPERT INDÉPENDANT.
I wouldn’t have stumbled over that at all Athel @6, and I’m fairly confident that they didn’t make that placard with an old typewriter, but if they did it must be a whopper of a thing.
That’s not a placard, it’s a label on the image. No typewriters involved, just keyboards.
Ah, ok. Thanks Sackbut. It’s not a very clear image.
This whole sex/gender distinction thing is bollocks. Sex and gender have been synonyms for over five hundred years. Related words like masculine and feminine depend on this synonymy. Using gender to mean something else, something that nonetheless derives its meaning from synonymous use, serves and has only ever served to cause confusion. How I wish feminists hadn’t embraced the use of gender to refer to social phenomena.