Consequences
May. 28th, 2014 02:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avevale_intelligencerI'm going to say this as it came into my head, more or less, and then shut up about it, because there really is no more to be said and if there were, I would not be qualified to say it. Accordingly, I'm going to disable comments on this post. Sorry about that.
The following was quoted in a Facebook article I read today as a useful analogy for the situation of women vis-a-vis men, in the wake of the California shooting and the subsequent arguments around "not all men/yes all women":
Here's a bowl of M&Ms. We've poisoned 10% of them. Go ahead. Have an M&M. Not all of them are poisoned.
I can quite see that that is a useful analogy, and shows up the utter self-serving uselessness of any sentence that begins "Not all men..."
However, it also comes with some logical consequences which are painfully clear to anyone who thinks about it.
If that is a useful analogy for the situation of women vis-a-vis men in our culture, then the inescapable conclusion is that any woman on the planet would have to be completely suicidally insane to allow any man (whom she does not already know well enough to trust completely) to speak to her or to come within ten feet of her (or line of sight if armed). The only rational course is to treat all the M&Ms as poisoned. The only rational course is to treat all unknown men as rapists.
The generation of women currently under age know no man that well. The generation of women yet unborn never will.
Thanks to the activities of an unspecified number of arrogant, entitled, selfish, childish, murderous, rotten-hearted scum-sucking male pricks, the human race has just committed suicide. Forget global warming. Ignore the onrushing asteroids. Wave bye-bye to the threat of war. We've already done it to ourselves. Two generations and that's it.
The only hope of avoiding this fate is if men (and it is definitely on men to fix this) can think of something they can do in the next twenty-five years to rebuild the trust between the genders to the point where a woman will be willing to take a chance on an unknown man not being a rapist, a murderer, a psychopath, a tyrant, a codependent emotional cripple or a simple waste of space. Frankly, I can't think of a thing.
It's been fun, mostly. I wish we could have had a future, but let's be honest, it was never really in the cards, was it?
The following was quoted in a Facebook article I read today as a useful analogy for the situation of women vis-a-vis men, in the wake of the California shooting and the subsequent arguments around "not all men/yes all women":
Here's a bowl of M&Ms. We've poisoned 10% of them. Go ahead. Have an M&M. Not all of them are poisoned.
I can quite see that that is a useful analogy, and shows up the utter self-serving uselessness of any sentence that begins "Not all men..."
However, it also comes with some logical consequences which are painfully clear to anyone who thinks about it.
If that is a useful analogy for the situation of women vis-a-vis men in our culture, then the inescapable conclusion is that any woman on the planet would have to be completely suicidally insane to allow any man (whom she does not already know well enough to trust completely) to speak to her or to come within ten feet of her (or line of sight if armed). The only rational course is to treat all the M&Ms as poisoned. The only rational course is to treat all unknown men as rapists.
The generation of women currently under age know no man that well. The generation of women yet unborn never will.
Thanks to the activities of an unspecified number of arrogant, entitled, selfish, childish, murderous, rotten-hearted scum-sucking male pricks, the human race has just committed suicide. Forget global warming. Ignore the onrushing asteroids. Wave bye-bye to the threat of war. We've already done it to ourselves. Two generations and that's it.
The only hope of avoiding this fate is if men (and it is definitely on men to fix this) can think of something they can do in the next twenty-five years to rebuild the trust between the genders to the point where a woman will be willing to take a chance on an unknown man not being a rapist, a murderer, a psychopath, a tyrant, a codependent emotional cripple or a simple waste of space. Frankly, I can't think of a thing.
It's been fun, mostly. I wish we could have had a future, but let's be honest, it was never really in the cards, was it?