A Twist of Things to Come

First off, thanks to lotusice for the link to Male Submission Art. (Much of it is work safe, though much of it is not, so mind where you are when you click.) These are images that focus on men, without the hyper-sexualized female tottering around on stilettos that seems to be exactly the same everywhere. (She's nothing but a figment of the porn-machine's imagination, anyway.)

It's an awesome site, but I'm writing right now because I'm grumpy. maymaym, whose site it is, posted today about the This Week in Kink podcast, in which the following jewel of complete stupidity appeared:

“I firmly and strongly believe that it is a woman’s role to be submissive to a man. I believe that submission in men is taught at conception because as soon as women realize that they’re pregnant, they start planning that child’s fucking future and quite often that the mother is definitely the beginning of the emasculation. That said, I think that women in the past couple of hundred years have gotten entirely too high on their own power and eventually need to be slapped in the fucking head and put in their place.”

First, mommie issues, much? Second, what planet has this twathead been living on in which women are so high on their own power that they need to be 'put in their place'? Certainly not the same world in which women who dared to vote had their fingers cut off by Taliban militants, and not the world in which a man ignored a woman beating on the windows and screaming "call the cops" from the back of his friend's car, while the friend borrowed a flashlight, a gas can and a shovel. A world where too many women end up in shallow fucking graves because of what's between their legs.

I am so angry about this shit, this shit that goes on every day in my world, in this world -- the same world my boys are growing up in -- that I'm actually a little afraid. Afraid of what I might do the next time some asshat chases me through a parking lot, pinches my behind on public transportation, or, really, just looks at me the wrong way.

Not to even mention the above statement's total misapprehension of the incredible strength and masculinity of the submissive man-- something the speaker probably will never understand, because in his heart of hearts it scares him [into a complete lack of fecal material].

This rant has been brought to you by a lifetime of witnessing misogynistic crap in silence. In my heart of hearts, I know that men who abuse women do so out of fear -- fear of a world in which they don't have the power they believe is their due.

Also, does anybody have a shovel I can borrow?