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Originally Posted by Bridie
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More propagation of the (patriarchal) myth that women are brain-dead sheep that don't really care about anything of importance like politics, economics, sociology etc. Just another attempt at disempowering women, and now indirectly disempowering right-wing politics via their new found association with supposed brain-dead sheep who are just trying to have a bit of fun.
Personally, I can't see what would so be fun about it. But then, I'm not a female German National Socialist. Perhaps National Socialism is just one big party over there (occasionally interrupted by terrorising people in order to feel strong  ).
Really, when one considers the modern emergence of women as a powerful presence in the paid workforce, academia and politics, this throw back to portraying women as brain-dead, passive morons who follow men around in order to feel better about themselves, but never actually have an original idea of their own, is extremely outdated.
If women weren't capable of idealism, a decent standard of intellectualisation or caring about the society they live in then they wouldn't be excelling in these areas as they are today... often to a much higher standard than their male competitors or counterparts are. The proof is in the pudding, as they say.  |
Whenever I hear the word "disimpowering" I want to go for my revolver.
The reason women are excelling in "intellectualisation" is that the bottom fell out of the free market of ideas. Academia expanded massively in the Sixties and Seventies and now any fraud who talks jargon can claim to be a professor and sell her counterfeit "empowering" trinkets.
Just as in a real flea market, the brash and aggressive women get more attention for the junk they sell than the quiet antiques dealer who has some real treasures.