I was looking up "put on a pedastal" on google because I wanted to find a word that matched that sort of meaning...and somehow I found a blog called: White Women Suck!
I couldn't resist my temptation. I just had to reply...and i must say that I put way more effort into it than I did with this essay. (I hope this guy doesn't find my blog...lol) Apparently, and not surprisingly, your comment has to be approved by him before it will appear. This is another reason why I want to put my reply to it here...I can't have worked that hard for nothing, right?? Right?!??! lol
My comment:
Quite frankly...I don't even see the need for the creation of this blog. Is it even relevant that white woman were treated "better" than other women in the past (and present)? Why are women grouped by the colour of their skin? Why should that be relevant in an age like today? We are all individuals, and we live in individual situations. A person's suffering should not be compared to another's. Everyone lives their own lives and are faced with their own challenges. People who suffer should not bring each other down by saying petty things like "you are not suffering as much as me so you shouldn't talk!" We are in a day and age where every person is unique, and every person's problems are unique. I have less control of the past as anyone else today does, and I'm sure that women, no matter how they were mistreated, had no control of theirs either. I hope you are not suggesting that white women should have been thankful for not being treated as badly as other women were, and therefore accepted their fate? And exactly what do you mean by "white women"? You are making a large generalization about groups of people who were all very different in their own regard.
I do agree that some people have an overpowered sense of feminism...people are far too politically correct, sometimes, but at the same time that applies to anything, not only women. It can apply to politics, religion, and nationalism.
The impression I'm getting from you is that you are bitter about certain women you have met in your life that you have tried to appeal to but failed (I am not blaming either party) and you are taking it out on the majority of them. This 'chivalry' you speak of btw...do you actually even know it's origins? Can you even comprehend what it means? There is a whole history behind that, that I wont get into. Perhaps you should put more research into it before talking about it, especially since you seem to know so much about history when it comes to the suffering of "coloured" groups of women.
But anyway...it's necessary to see that we are living in an age where gender roles and expectations have rapidly and very suddenly changed in only the past - what, fifty years? (In America). Even longer than that, and unfortunately people get caught. All of us get caught within gender confusion, especially men who are given a double standard - to be 'chivalrous' and yet to 'still be a man' and yet to 'give women rights'. It is confusing, but it's confusing for everyone.
We are all changing together, and in the process, let's try to remember the *person* not the group. One person does not make the face of the whole. Reach out to people, don't push them away, no matter how many silly ones you come across. Don't loose faith in the masses just because of a few sorry individuals...and because of the confusion of current gender issues.
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