Aug 22 2007
Womenz
You know how I mentioned in the entry I wrote about the crazy lady with all the dead fetuses in her house, that we have more important things to be up in arms about regarding womenz rights in this country? Here’s an article that actually means something.
It’s about Michael Vick and how we would have reacted if he was hitting his wife. Or his girlfriend. Or even just a woman he met at the strip-club.
Let me say: I think people have over-reacted significantly to his stupid dog ring. Is it offensive and mean and nasty… yes. About as nasty as locking hens up in tiny cages where they can’t breathe and pumping them full of all sorts of unnatural things so they’ll be tastier and then killing them and chopping them up and shipping them to a grocery store near you. I will never ever for the life of me be able to figure out why people will defend their pets so much while they’re shoving a hamburger down their throat. But that’s me. And besides the point.
I can tell you how I react when I hear an athlete, a movie star, a musician is all beat-y on his wife or girlfriend. I don’t. My reaction is pretty cold, namely, well, what do you expect, ma’am? I just brush it all off, despite my friends who have been scarred for life by their father hitting their mother, despite having participated in all sorts of demonstrations by women who have been abused. Despite sitting down and speaking with those women and watching the way they trembled, the silent way they peered at the world, wrapped within their own minds. I have seen all of this, and I still have no reaction.
To be fair, I had the same reaction to the Vick situation. It seems to me that the more attention you pay to those people, the more it encourages their crappy behavior. But the least we could do, as a society, is give the impression anyone outside of social workers and the women getting beat up cares about how women are being abused. And because this is America, where we expect capitalism to win out, anyone who makes his company significant quantities of money, will be protected from harm.
Until PETA sends out their ranks to protest and the media jumps all over some shit about dogs. DOGS. So, at some point, maybe the government will step up and do something legally to protect womenz from being abused and I don’t know, pay for the therapy they desperately need. But no one will stand up in this country and say, womenz is being beat and I won’t sit down and let it happen.
They’ll blame rap music and Imus for disrespecting womenz, but they absolutely will not own up to the fact that they just don’t care about womenz, so long as they stand in the background, pretty and quiet and preferably undressed.
K.
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