I posted the above meme to Facebook and was quickly barraged by ladies telling me that women build this country because... reasons.
OK. Maybe I am wrong.
If the ladies want to ignore 450 years of sexism that denied women the right to credit, capital, contract, vote, or even their own last name, who am I to argue?
If women want to forget that women were kept out of the paid workforce, could not be architects, could not open a bank account in their own name, and could not serve in the military or become priests or presidents, that is their right.
Conceding that I might be wrong, I decided to embrace the Stanley Crouch "flip test" and fix this appropriated meme by making a new one by simply changing the gender, substituting one cloth for another, and adding a picture.
All better now?
In truth, I am not sure this is an improvement. It seems to take the meme in another direction.
The original meme was about corporate bankers in New York and Washington boning out our farms and factories in order to leverage a tenth of a share more this fiscal quarter.
Is that what the second meme is about?
Apparently women in general, and women in suits in particular, have never turned a wrong corner.
Right.
I think that was generally true when women had no power to build or destroy.
But today? Not so much.
If you don't believe me, ask anyone who ever worked at Hewlett Packard while Carly Fiorina was sitting in the big chair.
Ask anyone in America the essential question of the day: who LOST to the pathological liar, multiple-bankrupt, Russia-loving, porn start raw-dogging, serial adulterating, pussy-grabbing, orange blow-hard who married an illegal alien?
3 comments:
I refrained from comment on this one. I respect the message. As for "If the ladies want to ignore 450 years of sexism that denied women the right to credit, capitol, contract, vote, or even their own last name, who am I to argue?" I'm offend. Feminists don't want to ignore this. But it would be great to mention that the guy in denim overalls couldn't have made it and passed on to a next generation without the support of a woman doing chores and caring for kids... Unpaid. As for wearing suits, no longer good for class distinction. Many in the top 1% wear denim these days, and a lot of poor slobs trying to climb the ladder are wearing suits.
Yep, men are the sexists. But, no the 1 percent are not wearing suits. Trust me.
my thoughts exactly jennifer. also not noted were the many women who actually did a lot of the farmwork right alongside the men, or even instead of men when men were away doing...hunting? fishing? exploring? fighting in the military....
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