The other day I happened to have a rare half hour of free time and be near a national historic site all dolled up for Christmas, so naturally I popped in to get some holiday cheer.
The tour guide, a retiree aged gal, was happy to tell me all about the place.
Maybe 10 minutes in, a dad and two teens came in. They naturally folded into my not scheduled tour.
The house we were touring has been home to many four and even five star generals in its day.
At one point, the tour guide started to explain how a certain room had once been limited to men over the age of 18.
Then the uncomfortable moment occurred — the two teens were most likely female genetically but expressing as males. (Not that I asked, just a best guess and 40+ years of experience.)
The nervous tour guide focused on the age vs gender limit, but I could tell she was struggling with the proper pronouns.
i thought, why on earth would anyone (these teen possibly genetically girls, for example) decide to identify as white males? Did they not know this is now the one and only demographic it is totally OK to discriminate against?
And if white males are so terrible, why would anyone choose to identify as such? If they did not have to?
And maybe they just unfortunately were born genetically female but identified as white males despite the current disadvantage.
Anyway we all survived the tour. But I did wonder these things. Not that it matters really.
What do you think?Please share in the comments!
(P.s. I recently read of a study that showed in the 1960s in mice that the birth control pill created marked statistically significant gender confusion in the third generation (grandchildren of females who took the pill) but that the data was suppressed. And we are here now in human generations. Would maybe explain the otherwise inexplainable? I dunno.. discuss… )
@b g said: he is truly growing up and beginning to measure like a man
I like that phrase.
bg.
I do like horses. I do, I do, I do!
Ame
Didn’t mean to whine at you Kid, the power came on Christmas Eve about nine pm. So we got turkey and everything the next day. And yes the kiddo is growing into a good one, and our neighbourhood hung together well.
And all the best to you and yours during the New Year!
Horseman
The Island, can’t stand the lower mainland, that’s as bad as Tranna ;-D
Fuzzie, I know, I know, I know ;-D
Happy New Year to you and all the others in this forum!
@fuzziewuzziebear: I’m not sure if you meant that you found women on OK Cupid willing to deal with you or not willing to deal with you. I’m guessing that you found that older women are even more delusional and have even more ridiculous expectations for men than do younger women. Logically, post-wall women would recognize their diminished status and adjust their expectations. But no. They just get worse.
We like that Australian anti-feminist Bettina Arndt. But what is interesting is that she supports herself by being a dating coach to older women. Her message to older women is than now that you don’t “need” a man to support you while your children are growing up, you can be choosy. She says, “We aren’t here to be a nurse or a purse.” Think of it. Bettina is telling post-menopausal women that they can land a millionaire.
This brings up an interesting issue. Men cannot rely on traditional conservative women to be our advocates. We need to discuss, as Mumia Obsidian Ali puts it, the terms of a new social contract and the terms of surrender for women. With the exception of Karen Straughn, we have no women supportive of the lifestyle of the new man. The new man has to reject the path offered by feminists and the path offered by traditional conservatives. We can only stab at what that man might look like. I humbly offer myself as the quintessential new man. I am a competent, sensitive, emotionally available feminist man who understands that all women are whores; that is, trade sex for resources. I’m not a cartoonishly feminized male nor a cartoonishly masculine male. I get my sexual needs met from prostitutes, who I regard a “good” women. Gone is the notion that a woman can be trusted for longer than sixty minutes after paying her. Relationships with women are simply out of the question.
Enough cryin’, bitchin’, and moanin’:
Roger,
I have seen some of Bettina Arndt. There is one point that she does not draw the full circle one that learned from coaching fifty plus harridans, they expect men’s fortunes to magically heal post divorce. They can’t understand why men don’t own homes when they have ended up with them in the settlement..
It is good that I have not been on OkCupid in years.
bg, Neeeeeeiiiiiigh!!!!!