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Hey, if it worked in 1955 why shouldn’t it apply now…?

*headdesk*

I write this post out of a shared personal experience with a religiously addled graduate from university.  Let’s call him, to be charitable, douche-nozzle or DN for short.  As with most of the risibly sanctimonious religious turds out there DN believes he has a relevant, informed opinion on a myriad of topics.  It must be nice to be able to answer the hard questions of life with the unctuous “goddidit” and not be laughed out of the room by your peers.  DN seems to think that he can bloviate on about Especially Easy to understand topics ones Feminism and Post Modernism.  Now DN, with his above average score in verbal rectaltude decided to strike up a conversation with my partner based on the All-Star thesis that “feminists have “gone too far” and really need to take a hard look at the direction of their movement.

Feminism has gone too far…  Oh ya right!  Magically, since DN was warming up to mansplain exactly how frakking peachy the womenz have it now.   DN, despite a few inconvenient facts such as that the patriarchy, rape culture, rape, the pro-kyriarchy biased social, economic and political systems, not to mention ingrained cultural misogyny and….et cetera are still all going on full stream, began to explain how right the world was and how feminism had gone wrong.  It was as if all the institutions that enslave, depreciate and and destroy women somehow disappeared, seemingly overnight and more importantly, are inconsequential because he is white and male and he frakking says so.

DN, even jebus knows you fail.

DN carries his privilege well.  He is middle class and literally has both sides of the family falling over him to ensure a soft landing in what we like to call reality.  One of his more egregious assumptions is that Intransigentia is just a mere girl and therefore does not have much going on in the grey matter.   Not many things can be further from the truth.  She possesses  a quick wit and near encyclopedic memory of facts and argumentation which she often calls upon to dissect and dismember fuckwittery of a much greater calibre than DN could ever hope to offer.

DN got lucky though, as my parter was bereft of sleep and had a magnitude 8 headache.  Even with her size 8 brain packed into a size five skull she put an end DN’s douchery.  Simply by asking which feminist authors he was referring to and to back up his claim with some sort of reasonable example.  It was amazing to watch how fast the conversation shifted.

“Uh-oh this one uses her lady-brain for more than just house cleaning, praising jebus, and bearing children to brainwash in order to propagate the frakking bloody car-wreak that is christianity.” – I’m sure this didn’t cross DN’s mind, but I’d like to give his withered rationality at least the benefit of the doubt.

I look forward to the day when the Feminist movement is no longer necessary.  I work toward furthering the rights of women and educating people about the assumptions they take for granted, that necessarily hurt women but remain unexamined.  There is a long way to go, I just hope we can take another step by firmly slapping down the mealy mouthed privileged mendacity that regularly spews forth from mouths of people like DN.