John Dos Passos looking back on his early life as a socialist concluded that socialists blew it by ignoring situations they really ought to have responded to and needlessly pushing their noses into things best left alone.
Feminism is following in the same path. The following is the best unintentionally funny thing I have seen this entire season.
It's hard to imagine how you could pack more clueless, self-righteous tripe into less than ten minutes. The worst thing about it—and there are sooo many things wrong here—is the way it trivializes date rape. Anyone who seriously believes that "Baby It's Cold Outside" suggests date rape would have to believe that just about anything is date rape. That is an appalling insult to the women who really are victims of this awful crime.
There is really only one appropriate response. Call someone you know and suggest a date followed by a night cap back home where you will role play with the man flirting insistently and the woman playing coy and hard to get. Enjoy it while you can, 'cause it may be a crime next year.
Note: I should add that I think one of her picks really is creepy and that is "I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus". But in that painfully literal, irony-impaired approach that is apparently required to be a feminist, our analyst misses the real problem. That Mommy is kissing "Santa Claus" is not a problem because it's pretty clear to us that Santa is really Dad dressed up in a Santa Suit. Yes, I know, but our feminist analyst didn't get it and it is entirely possible that someone else somewhere out there is as clueless as she is. But the real problem is that the whole song is sung by a child who doesn't get it—this being dramatic irony—and the child thinks that this is cute and funny that Mommy is cheating on Dad.
No doubt that will get me sent to re-education for having such quaint patriarchal notions that it is wrong for Mommy to cheat on Daddy.
By the way, it's much more fun to kiss under the mistletoe if the woman is dressed up in the Santa suit, although I have to admit that my preferred Santa suit for women is for indoor use only.
A final thought: if you do try this role playing game this Christmas, I suspect that most men and most women will discover the respective roles suggested above come remarkably easily to them. I'd suggest reasons why this might be but I have a sneaking suspicion most readers can figure it out without my help.
Feminism is following in the same path. The following is the best unintentionally funny thing I have seen this entire season.
It's hard to imagine how you could pack more clueless, self-righteous tripe into less than ten minutes. The worst thing about it—and there are sooo many things wrong here—is the way it trivializes date rape. Anyone who seriously believes that "Baby It's Cold Outside" suggests date rape would have to believe that just about anything is date rape. That is an appalling insult to the women who really are victims of this awful crime.
There is really only one appropriate response. Call someone you know and suggest a date followed by a night cap back home where you will role play with the man flirting insistently and the woman playing coy and hard to get. Enjoy it while you can, 'cause it may be a crime next year.
Note: I should add that I think one of her picks really is creepy and that is "I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus". But in that painfully literal, irony-impaired approach that is apparently required to be a feminist, our analyst misses the real problem. That Mommy is kissing "Santa Claus" is not a problem because it's pretty clear to us that Santa is really Dad dressed up in a Santa Suit. Yes, I know, but our feminist analyst didn't get it and it is entirely possible that someone else somewhere out there is as clueless as she is. But the real problem is that the whole song is sung by a child who doesn't get it—this being dramatic irony—and the child thinks that this is cute and funny that Mommy is cheating on Dad.
No doubt that will get me sent to re-education for having such quaint patriarchal notions that it is wrong for Mommy to cheat on Daddy.
By the way, it's much more fun to kiss under the mistletoe if the woman is dressed up in the Santa suit, although I have to admit that my preferred Santa suit for women is for indoor use only.
A final thought: if you do try this role playing game this Christmas, I suspect that most men and most women will discover the respective roles suggested above come remarkably easily to them. I'd suggest reasons why this might be but I have a sneaking suspicion most readers can figure it out without my help.
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