The Ultimate Judges of Real Womanhood
TS-SI
By Lisa Jain Thompson
25 April, 2010
http://ts-si.org/global-warning/24720-the-ultimate-judges-of-real-womanhood (http://ts-si.org/global-warning/24720-the-ultimate-judges-of-real-womanhood)
As has been said many times in many places, the male portion of the population believe they are the ultimate arbitrators of all things female. Men are the ones who determine who is too heavy or too tall, whose breasts are too small or hips are too large, whose bones who are too big, whose body language does not willingly submit to the everpresent male gaze.
They set themselves up as the Supreme Court for establishing the constitutional bounds of real womanhood. Venture outside these boundaries and a woman will find herself subject to the catcalls and derision of men determined to maintain their supposed domination over women everywhere.
That post is the biggest pile of sexist drivel I've read so far in 2010.
I don't know if it's the worst I've seen this year, but it's a worthless failure nonetheless. Very few people fit stereotypes, and very fewer people (men or women) get to call the shots.
The sad part is...
I think it's "serious".
Maybe I read this wrong, but I thought the author was writing a sarcastic article in response to the bigoted comment she got from Name Withheld? Did I misread it?
I don't know. I can't really stand reading most of it. Even if that's what it is, sarcasm doesn't translate well over the Internet.
Or to quote Randall of xkcd: "Fun game: try to post a YouTube comment so stupid that people realize you must be joking. (Hint: this is impossible)"