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| Picture taken from the movie Waiting to Exhale |
Of late I have been coming
across a lot of accusations that reverse sexism is very much a live and causing
a great deal of problems.
The accusers of this are predominantly
white hetro males who often make these accusations from either a men’s rights
or fathers rights point of view.
I have always had a big
problem with this. As I have mentioned
in previous posts white hetro males are the most privileged of all people on
this planet, which begs the question “what rights are they demanding?”
Investigation clearly shows
that they are demanding the right to maintain strait white male supremacy and
domination, the right to continue raping underage girls, the right to continue
to abuse wives and girlfriends and quite a lot more.
These males are claiming that
they are now the victims of sexism which is been delivered to them from a feminist
dominated society. I am really curious
about this. When did we become a
feminist dominate society? From what I
can see we are still very much under the oppressive male dominated society.
Their idea of reverse sexism
is when women dare to stand up to male oppression. When women say men do not have the right to
treat women and girls as property then men immediately accuse these women of
been sexist.
So I guess in a male dominated
society, men can treat women and girls as they like and that is not sexism, as
it is just the man exercising his manly right.
But when a woman resists the horrors of male domination, oh well that is
different, clearly she is an evil sexist feminist.
I am really trying to
understand reverse sexism. How can it
take place when men still maintain most of the power in today’s world?
While it is certainly true
that thanks to our feminist foremothers we women have certainly made progress
and obtained some power, but I can assure you, not nearly enough to start discriminating
against men in the way that they would have you believe.
By making women look bad the oppressor
(men) are able to create the illusion that the oppressed (women) is really the
bad apple and needs to be dealt with.
In their drive to educate
women and girls about male domination, feminists must make this an important
point. Too often I see the victim
getting all the blame, for example when a woman is raped it becomes her fault
because clearly she was dressed provocatively or she shouldn’t have been in
such a quite part of town by herself etc.
Reverse sexism is the same
thing. It is blaming the victim; it is
making the victim look like the cause of the problem. And what better way to deflect male sexism
towards women if men are able to get everyone to think we are now discriminating
against men.
These men who make such accusations
will often point to TV commercials that in their opinion are anti-male. To be quite honest I have not found many of
these so called anti-male adverts though I have come across many many adverts
that are anti-woman.
But let’s humor the boys and
have a look at one of these so called anti male adverts.
The one I would like to look
at which attracted a lot of anger from many men is one created for the Australian
Cancer Council called Cloakroom. You may
be aware of the women’s anti-cancer fundraising event called “Girl’s Night In” if
not and if this topic is of interest to you, you can read-up on them here http://www.girlsnightin.com.au/
Anyway back to the commercial
at hand.
The commercial shows some
women arriving at a house laughing and clearly happy to be there, their hostess
takes the coat of one of the women and opens a closet. In the closet we see a man (presumably either
her husband or boyfriend) at the bottom of the closet, tied and gagged. The women who was laughing with her friends
when she opens the closet door looks at him with much disappointment as if she
has been really let down by him, throws the coat into the closet and then
closes the closet door.
The outraged males who
complain about this advert are quick to ask how people would feel if the sexes
had been reversed.
Well interesting they should
ask this because this happens quite often in real life. Women and girls get horribly abused by
husbands, boyfriends and fathers and I have certainly read a lot of articles in
which men keep women and girls locked up in closets, basements, car trunks
etc. This after they have beaten them up
or raped them.
What makes this commercial
amusing is that by looking at the physical size of the woman and the man you
know it would not be possible for her to have actually been able to tie him up
and lock him in the closet. In real life it would have been the other way
around.
In the real world the oppressor
oppresses women and girls and locks them in closets and basements, now we have
a comical look at how the oppressed has locked the oppressor in the closet,
giving him a taste of his own medicine.
The women are happy and laughing
because with the evil oppressor locked away they can both have fun without been
oppressed and deal with real issue that affect women in this case cancer issues
without been belittled or made fun of.
If I had any complaints about
this commercial It would have been that I would have liked to have seen more
women of colour, especially as cancer affects all women and not just white
women. In fact by using women of colour
together with white women it could have been more empowering.
Strait white males have always
owned the property and employed women of colour to serve him. Throughout history white males have been
known to rape their female servants and slaves.
Well now the oppressive white
male is locked in the closet and the women are now free to be women.
