How stupid do you have to be to think this promotes "gender equality"

VestigialHead · 2020-08-05T06:42:21+00:00

Seeing the same people believe there are 81+ genders wouldn't you have to have a symbol for each of them on the traffic light for equality? :)

StaticEagle__ · 2020-08-05T05:59:31+00:00

Pretty fucking stupid

FuckThisShitBot41 · 2020-08-05T11:42:59+00:00

Agree this is bullshit

RingosTurdFace · 2020-08-05T14:40:30+00:00

By the very logic of the mindset of the person who thought this up, it would be sexist to assume that the “normal” stick figure is male, because women can wear trousers.

Why should anyone assume the gender of the regular stick figure is male just because it’s ‘wearing’ trousers? Sexist!

Conversely, a figure in a dress is much more exclusionary - it is very unlikely to be male, unless it’s a cross dresser or a Scotsman in a kilt. So by their logic, they’re specifically excluding most men from these symbols.

And what about the disabled? Should we not have a smattering of wheelchair symbols, or even ones with one leg, couples, children, etc, etc? The thinking is absurd and increases the exclusion is seeks to address.

If they wanted to end this terrible oppressive sexism (/s of course) and bring everyone else into the action at the same time, why not just have a green tick and a red cross to indicate good to go/wait?

WillieOMacDickerson · 2020-08-05T07:41:07+00:00

I've written a parody of exactly this kind of stupidity. It's the second half of a book that you can read here: https://sites.google.com/view/2048-the-mongrels-tale/home

A lot of it is an inversion of imagery from the Handmaid's Tale mixed with quite a few dick jokes.

Here's a taste:

The Superior Mother was late, and without their Chair the Committee for Radical Tokenism could not begin their vital world-improving work. While they waited Verity worked on shaping her nails, Fleur absentmindedly chewed on her hair, Destinee scrolled through her emails, Brielynnaeja stared out the window and Loretta blew her nose. With the Superior Mother still absent Verity polished her nails, Fleur used scissors to trim her split ends, Destinee moved on to streaming cute cat videos, Brielynnaeja stared out the window and Loretta ran her thumbnail through her chin stubble. Still the Superior Mother kept them waiting. Verity rubbed moisturiser into her hands, Fleur scrunchied her hair up into a bun, Destinee laughed at clumsy kittens, Brielynnaeja stared out the window and Loretta scratched her testicles.

At length The Superior Mother arrived and took her place in the high backed leather chair at the head of the table, her aura of authority augmented by the Pieta inspired floor to ceiling mural behind her. In it The Superior Mother was Madonna the Unraped, cradling the crucified Jesus in her arms as she looked scornfully down on the insignificant suffering of a man.

‘Let us begin with a prayer.’ She intoned, whereupon the rest of the committee stood and bowed their heads.

‘Adam, the First Defiler, was formed in mud’ she began.

‘Dirt from dirt, filth from filth.’ They responded.

‘Eve came from Adam’s rib’ The Superior Mother continued

‘Oh, righteous birth giving flesh’ the womben replied.

‘Hail Madonna the Unraped’

‘She guides and protects us’

‘Cursed be the seed’ she sneered.

‘Cursed be the seed’ they spat.

As they resumed their seats The Superior Mother cleared her throat and announced, ‘As we always do, let’s begin by celebrating our achievements…’

Fleur’s impeccable nails hovered over her keyboard ready to immortalise every word.

‘...we have made real and practical improvements to the lives of womben by changing the stop and go image at the crosswalk from the silhouette of a male to the silhouette of a womban and we have solved the problem of child marriage by banning wedding dress costumes for little girls.’

There was a self congratulatory smattering of applause.

The Superior Mother continued, ‘Womben’s oppression has been alleviated now that we have banned the words hard, firm, stiff, rigid, turgid and erect because they are an expression of aggressive patriarchal rape culture…’ Fluer’s fingers flew expertly across her keyboard, capturing every word. ‘...Thanks to us no womban has to be confronted with a phallus of any kind, we have banned pens and pencils, and now that the Emasculation Camps are operating at full capacity the carrots are cubed, the cucumbers are sliced and the zucchini’s are mashed!’ The Superior Mother had forgotten to mention the banning of water bottles, but the earthenware bowls of drinking water on the table were seen by all committee members as a material reminder of their victory over oppression.

‘...Yet, I am certain that there is more work to do. Harvey Epstein is out there, he is writing his evil plan to bring on The Uprising and it is our responsibility to rub it out. We need to show him we won’t be intimidated and that our self-empowerment will not be denied. I’d like to hear from each of you about how you feel you’re being oppressed and what action we should take to alleviate your suffering.’

Fleur’s fingers hovered, waiting for someone to speak. For a long silent moment it seemed that, with so much already achieved, none of them could think of any way they were still suffering under The Patriarchy, until Verity spoke up tentatively, ‘Um, the tunnels’.

‘Interesting, please continue’ invited The Superior Mother.

‘Well, I was driving to work this morning and as I was getting closer to the entrance to the tunnel I realised how The Patriarchy had symbolically enslaved me.’

‘How so? Please share with us’ The Superior Mother entreated.

‘Well, as I hurtled towards the tunnel entrance I saw how intrusive it was, I was aware that I was about to thrust myself into it, it was so aggressive, as a womban I felt it was so...so…’ here she shuddered at the thought of saying the next word out loud, ‘…penetrative’.

Wanting to be noticed as the first to agree Destinee jumped straight in. ‘As an Asian womban I agree, something needs to be done.’

Fluer stopped typing for a second, ‘As an indigenous lesbian womban I demand action!’

Brielynnaeja looked out the window.

Opening up the room to inclusive decision-making The Superior Mother said, ‘So, what action should we take?’

‘Close the tunnels’ demanded Verity.

‘Yes!’ Enthused Fleur, ‘smash The Patriarchy!’.

‘Hold on’ said Loretta, ‘entering the tunnels might be yet another way that The Patriarchy oppresses women like us, but exiting the tunnels is symbolic of the gestational life-giving power of womben, and as an African-American trans womban I think that should be celebrated.’

‘Loretta is absolutely right!’ Declared Fleur, ‘As an indigenous lesbian womban I demand action!’

Destinee had a thought, and shouted ‘keys!’ before she could stop herself.

Loretta was quick to catch on. ‘Yes, you’re right, by thrusting keys into locks we are all complicit in our own oppression.’

‘Ban all keys!’ Demanded Verity.

Brielynnaeja looked out the window.

‘So, to sum up’ said The Superior Mother, ‘the consensus seems to be that keys must be banned to end our complicity in our oppression, and we should be able to exit the tunnels as a celebration of femininity but entering them should be banned to oppose the continuing oppression of womben by Harvey Epstein and The Patriarchy. I so move. All those in agreement raise your hand.’

Every hand shot into the air, except one.

‘Brielynnaeja?’

‘Sorry, what?’

‘Your thoughts?’

‘Oh, um, well, as a low socioeconomic, left-handed, Afro-Asian Hispanic-Native American redheaded lesbian muslim womban who is differently abled, I think it’s going to rain.’

Verity recorded the motion passed unanimously.

MyspaceNihilist · 2020-08-05T19:21:37+00:00

I mean honestly this one is pretty harmless

Title	How stupid do you have to be to think this promotes "gender equality"
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Date	August 5, 2020 5:38 AM UTC (5 years ago)
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