When I was young, I was a complete adherent to the dogma that a woman can do anything a man does and do it better. When people tried to disagree with me, I assumed that it was because they had been "brainwashed" by "society", and that they couldn't help themselves. Now I think that I was the one who had been brainwashed by a destructive form of rhetoric. I was politically correct and anyone who disagreed with me was simply wrong.
Now I see the realities that I once dreamed of on TV, movies, novels, etc., and I think about my brothers and nephews and wonder why it's okay to make fun of white, heterosexual males, the elderly, fat people, and women, like Sarah Palin, who aren't politically correct. Just imagine the firestorm that would descend if someone had called Hilary Clinton "Redneck Barbie" during her run for the presidency! Or what would have happened if someone created a children's movie in which the girls don't rescue the boys, in fact, gasp!, the boy rescues the girl! Why is it less demeaning for the girl to always rescue the boy, than it is for the boy to always rescue the girl? Why are we brainwashing our boys and men to think that they are always going to the butt of every sitcom joke? That they are never as bright or competent as a woman? Why is it never okay for the woman to be soft, and to have a man who does everything he can to cherish her and take care of her?
Why do we believe that 100 pound women are able to pound 200 pound + men into the ground, even if they are equally matched in fighting abilities? If the disparate sizes were both men, this would never fly - unless one were Jet Li and the other a bad man who hadn't spent his entire life practicing martial arts.
Why do we believe that Native Americans were absolutely pure and that all evil was on the side of the whites? We have people in today's society that torture others as a form of entertainment, and we call them serial killers, gangs, triads, mafia, etc. Why do we hold a society up for emulation that made a ritual of death by torture? Why do we insist that cultures that condoned cutting off a woman's nose for adultery were matriarchal cultures? It was so refreshing to see Lonesome Dove and it's prequels and sequels, and to have them address the battles between Anglos and Native Americans realistically and without judgement on either side.
Why does our society weep as a nation when a small child is kidnapped, tortured, murdered, but when a fetus is ripped limb from limb, we stoutly adhere that it's none of our business? I know that as a nation, this country has a truly soft heart. We can see it anytime the helpless come to our attention. We weep with the suffering. But then in a completely schizophrenic split, we defend abortion as a solution to an awkward pregnancy. Why are we always told about women dying in 'back street abortions', but no one mentions the fact that right now in a legal atmosphere there are thousands of botched abortions, women and girls die every day from post-abortion problems, the devastating effect that abortion has on a woman's mental and physical health?
I think that the real problem is that the politically correct stances on various issues are always based on at least one lie. The lie that underpinned my feminism was the myth that if I put a woman up against a man (in a physical confrontation), and both were equal in their training, musculature, etc, then the man couldn't out-perform the woman. I now know that given absolute equality in everything, the man would out perform the woman because of the differences in our physical makeup. The lie that underpins the myth of Native American nobility is a European romanticism of the "noble savage" and the leftist dogma that the whites who moved West were all degenerate, racist, rapists who had no self-control or moral constraints. The lie that underpins the demand for legalized abortions is the idea that carrying a child for 9 months will somehow destroy a woman's life, and that legalized abortions are always safe, convenient, and hygienic. The lie behind the girl always rescuing the man in modern entertainment is the idea that if the girl sees women being rescued, she will automatically grow up passive, weak, and inferior, and that the boys will grow up believing themselves superior to girls.
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