So I think I studied so much yesterday that I feel like doing absolutely nothing today. I need to get out of this state of mind otherwise I'm not going to do too hot on my exams! To try and get myself back on track, I thought I'd go ahead and update my blog. Then maybe after, I'll feel like studying more.
While looking around on my facebook and posting the usual inspirational, motivational, and humorous pictures that I stubble upon, I started looking at one of the pages I liked. It's called "Women's Rights News". I'm all for some women's rights so I liked it. Well, recently they've been getting a lot of backlash from fellow feminists on some of the pictures they've been posting.
To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, there's this one picture they posted which is obviously some kind of cartoon from a comic strip. It has an average looking woman shopping in a store holding up a really tiny shirt. There's an extremely skinny sales clerk standing in front of her. Well the woman says, "Do you make this in a size for people who eat?"
Now, at first glance, I thought it was funny. I didn't think anything else of it. It's a comedic strategy for a relatable experience. I found it quite humorous since a lot of the name brand stores don't carry anything in a size over 12 or 14 which I find quite stupid considering sizes 12 and 14 are the size of the average woman--in America. I'm not sure about the average size in other countries or the world.
Either way, I felt that it was a jab at department stores. Everyone I know has had an experience where they find that really cute outfit but they can't find their size. It always seems like smaller people get the cuter clothes as well. I'm between the media definition of thick and thin. I'm a size 8 but I used to be a size 18. I lost all my weight when I hit puberty plus I took weight training classes and ran everyday.
I'm a muscular person but yes I do have fat on places like my hips and tummy. It's no big deal to me. I actually very much love my body.
Anyway, I'm a little off topic. So the picture and the comments. Well, a lot of people didn't like the joke, in fact they outright hated it and disapproved. I can see their reasoning behind it which was that the picture was insulting skinny people, people with high metabolisms, people with eating disorders, etc. I didn't really think of it that way to begin with but I can see why people were thinking that.
However, people were just becoming rude and nasty about it. They were saying that they were going to unlike the page, that the page wasn't about equal rights, and a lot of other things. Well, you can't make everybody happy. That's not even the first photo to be argued over.
There was another photo that had a picture of a man holding a car door open for a woman and it said "Real men still do this". Okay, maybe take out the word "real" and just substitute it for the word "nice" or say "gentlemen still do this". Not really that big of a deal and yet everyone was getting so upset over it saying things like "I don't need a man to do this for me!" and "I can open a door by myself thank you very much! I would be offended if they did this!"
Really? You would be offended if a guy held a door open for you? What about if a girl opens a door for a man? Would the man feel like he was less of a man and thus be offended? It's just a nice gesture, you guys. I guess I'm going to have to teach my future children not to open doors for anyone lest they offend someone. So remember kids, always slam a door in the person's face so they won't be offended.
My personal opinion of this, is that yes, I would very much appreciate a man holding open a car door for me. It's a nice thing to do for someone. I don't look at it as his way of saying that I'm too weak to open my own door. I would just look at it as him doing a nice thing for me. You sir, get a gold star for the day.
Damn, even the feminists can't get along. I have no hope for the rest of humanity. We have to get rid of all these double standards.
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