{"id":46601,"date":"2019-01-22T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46601"},"modified":"2019-01-21T09:56:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T14:56:22","slug":"i-grew-up-in-pre-history-or-rather-in-portugal-in-some-ways-same-thing-in-the-60s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/22\/i-grew-up-in-pre-history-or-rather-in-portugal-in-some-ways-same-thing-in-the-60s\/","title":{"rendered":"“I grew up in pre-history, or rather in Portugal (in some ways, same thing) in the 60s”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Hoyt<\/a> on “toxic masculinity” and the rise of angry feminism:<\/p>\n

… it\u2019s such a just-so story it spreads and hides. It hides so well that people don\u2019t realize they\u2019re infected. But its distorting effects twist society\u2019s processes to the point that something vital stops working.<\/p>\n

Yes, the entire myth of \u201ctoxic masculinity\u201d is one of these. It was born of the disappointment of feminists. Look, in the days when women were actually held back, those that made it were exceptional people.<\/p>\n

Since I grew up in pre-history, or rather in Portugal (in some ways, same thing) in the 60s, where sexism was matter of fact and every day, I can tell you that, yes, to have the same grades as a boy you needed to work twice as hard, be brighter, more nimble, and more consistently good. Any boy started out with a good 20% on me in any teacher\u2019s head, because \u201cboys are smarter\u201d wasn\u2019t disputed, or even questioned.<\/p>\n

So I understand that in the early twentieth century, women that made it to positions of prominence, where they became known for professional excellence, had to be GOOD<\/em> at it. Amazing, in fact.<\/p>\n

And even then, they might hit a glass ceiling, because they were the nail that stuck up. Everything conspired to bring them down.<\/p>\n

Female liberation was played against this. People looked at these women, knew what they\u2019d achieved against what obstacles, and dreamed that \u201cif only women were allowed to be on an even footing with men, they\u2019d be the best at everything. Every woman would be a leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a form of insanity, because women are still human, and most humans are … average. That\u2019s why they call it \u201caverage.\u201d<\/p>\n

But you can see how what they saw would deceive them.<\/p>\n

Except that the obstacles were removed and women … were people. Sure. There are exceptional women, just as there are exceptional men, but in many ways, even with contraceptives, we women are still running with our legs in a biological sack. Oh, men too. They\u2019re just different sacks. And men\u2019s impairments, in a way, apply better to business, to creating, to competition.<\/p>\n

Look, it\u2019s become \u201csexist\u201d to refer to PMS and women\u2019s hormonal cycle as being at all different than men\u2019s hormonal gearing up. Yeah. Any ideology that requires me to ignore my lying eyes in favor of their theory is bad-crazy which can destroy society, so these are my middle fingers. Reality is what it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Hoyt on “toxic masculinity” and the rise of angry feminism: … it\u2019s such a just-so story it spreads and hides. It hides so well that people don\u2019t realize they\u2019re infected. But its distorting effects twist society\u2019s processes to the point that something vital stops working. Yes, the entire myth of \u201ctoxic masculinity\u201d is one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,62,7,10],"tags":[311,987,557,355,303,43],"class_list":["post-46601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-europe","category-history","category-liberty","tag-1960s","tag-feminism","tag-portugal","tag-prejudice","tag-sexism","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c7D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46602,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46601\/revisions\/46602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}