tool of the patriarchy! woo hoo!

( By request & with poorly recalled details, the thing about dancing at Saks )

You know what we haven't done in a while? Rants by request! I miss them. Comment giving me a subject on which you'd like me to rant, and I'll write a rant for you. It's a rare opportunity to make me dance (write) like a puppet for your amusement.

rant by request: instant messenger

( Instant messaging is stupid. Discuss. )

This rant has been intentionally inflammatory and may or may not reflect my actual opinions. Just assume it does, and if I've said something you dislike, that I'm talking about you.

rant by request: hooters

( Hooters is stupid, too. But I don't think anyone actually goes there anymore. )

hello, blinding insight!

The other day, a man told me this: the reason many [straight?] men have difficulty understanding the concept of male privilege and the need for feminism is that their experience of gender is that women have all the power.

That is, because there's this cultural notion that women run households, guys grow up with the assumption (if they live with their moms) that mother had all the power. And then there's dating, where men are presumed to be the asker, the aggressor, etc., while women have the power to decide whether there will be dating & whether there will be sex. So, everywhere there's this idea of women as the gatekeepers of things straight men want; is there any surprise that they have a hard time imagining that they're actually in a societally favored position?

I have difficulty relating this idea to gay men (who frequently also struggle with the idea of privilege), but it does make some sense to me for straight ones.

Thoughts, anyone?

rant by request: stupid lj comments

( I'm not cool enough to get stupid comments in my LJ )

Apologies to puzzlement for my less-than-compelling rant. It's a risk you take when you assign me a subject, I suppose.