Monday, September 11, 2023

Oppression

"Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021, females aren’t allowed to be educated past age 12. They can’t be seen in public without full body coverage. They can’t travel more than 45 miles from home without a male chaperone. They can’t work in sectors outside health or education. After age 8, they can’t be in direct contact with a male who’s not a blood relative. They can’t speak loudly in public since no one should be forced to hear a woman’s voice. They can’t wear heels, lest the sound of a woman’s footsteps inadvertently entice a man. All establishments with any reference to the word “woman” have been renamed. Street level windows must be painted over so that women in the home are not visible to men on the street. There’s a ban on women's presence on radio, television or at public gatherings of any kind. So when I see self-indulgent men in womanface wailing on TikTok about how oppressed they are by women who refuse to wax their balls or forfeit their athletic opportunities or honor their narcissistic pronoun demands, all I can figure is that these egomaniacal idiots are the unwitting brand ambassadors for the epitome of American male privilege. And maybe they would benefit from a little vacation to the streets of the Middle East where they could take up their demands with the Taliban and haggle over the definition of the “human rights” they seem to believe they lack."

Kaely Triller

 

While acknowledging that Afghanistan is not in the Middle East, she makes a reasonably good point.    It really boils down to people with first world problems needing to move the spotlight away from actual oppression.  

2 comments:

Marshal Art said...

Do you mean "she" makes a reasonably good point?

In any case, I agree. I'd go further in insisting the whining of the modern progressive is generally a matter of self-inflicted suffering, appropriating for themselves the status of victim in order to attract attention, unjustified sympathy and most importantly, validation for their delusional and perverse self-identity. To say such guys are not men, is not to agree with their delusion, but to state the fact that real men don't believe themselves to be women, and certainly not "oppressed" women.

Craig said...

My bad on the typo. Unfortunately auto correct doesn't catch those.

We live in a society where literally no one is oppressed, or impoverished, by any global or historic standard so people need to inflate things in order to get the "oppression" merit badge.