Posted on 02/23/2017 11:25:28 AM PST by nickcarraway
It's just seven words long, but that's enough to start a firestorm: "Real men provide. Real women appreciate it."
A billboard containing the words sits along an interstate in North Carolina, and it's inflaming passions.
Some people find the message sexist.
A group of those who don't like the billboard's message plan to hold a protest this weekend.
Molly Grace said she's never organized a protest before, but she's putting one together now after seeing the billboard earlier this week.
Grace, who owns a clothing and lifestyle store in Winston-Salem, sais the point of the protest isn't to bring the billboard down (although she wouldn't be sad to see it go) but to rail against the message behind it.
"We are not protesting the right to have a billboard or express a message on it," she told CNN. "This is only a protest against the type of thinking that creates a message like that."
Grace, who took to Facebook to organize the protest, feels the message promotes patriarchy and sexism and an antiquated way of thinking about women.
"We are protesting the implied demand that women be silent and appreciate, regardless of whatever circumstances, their role as non-providers," she wrote in the post.
Or, as she later told CNN, that women should "shut up and smile and be grateful for what this man does for you."
Originally, the protest was going to be held Sunday morning directly under the billboard, but that would have protesters standing directly next to a busy interstate so, for safety's sake, Grace is moving it to somewhere in downtown Winston-Salem.
So far, a few hundred people have said on Facebook they will attend.
"Just the messenger"
So, who put the billboard up?
Bill Whiteheart knows, but he can't reveal who it is.
Whiteheart, president of Whiteheart Outdoor Advertising, said the group that rented the billboard wants to stay anonymous, for now.
Whiteheart would say the billboard cost the group about $2,000 and was put up Friday morning.
The billboard is rented for 30 days but can be renewed to run longer if the group desires.
He stressed the message on the billboard shouldn't be confused as coming from his company.
"We're not supportive of or in opposition to the message," he told CNN. "We're just the messenger."
Dollar to a donut that this is attributed to Trump in the MSM by tomorrow morning.
But you want us to open doors, pay for dinner and you want free drinks on Wednesday?
Excellent!
That would cause a traffic jam on I-95 from Miami to Bangor!......................
Romans 1:18-32
We’ve been living it since the 1960s.
The deception is almost complete.
Mmmm...milk and eggs...milk and bacon...milk and...
My guess would be Molly doesn't exactly have men beating down her door....and there is probably more than one reason for it.
No, the sign makes no mention of "shutting up."
Regards,
Real women aren’t threatened by the term “real women”.
This is sexist against men, if we think about it. A provider is a loser follower of his woman. The leader is what is worth it.
Why does this always have to be about women?
They can never just disagree... they always have to attempt to shut down the other side.
I intend to protest the implied demand of this lady for men to sit down when they pee.
the punctuation needs to be inserted, if i can say that,
Real men provide real women, appreciate it.
this is a salute to the pimps who know what real men want and need.
Who are we to say what people mean when they say “men” or “women”?
The people protesting this hate transgenders and are clearly bigots.
Probably so.
“Real men provide. Real women appreciate it.”
“Real men” are workhorses and should give all they earn to females to spend and enjoy.
“Real women” ought to take it and pat him on the head on occasion.
Notice how SHE isn’t required to do anything but like the freebies?
and people wonder why guys are running away from marriage? Like what damn fool male would agree to this.
Too bad about that, she could stand being told to do so once in a while. Such a grandiose, overblown regard for her own personal opinion over those of others. Opinions are like @holes, everybody’s got one and somebody’s going to think it smells.
Geezers man...,some folks read a lot into a simple statement of fact
Bttt.
5.56mm
“We are not protesting the right to have a billboard or express a message on it,” she told CNN. “This is only a protest against the type of thinking that creates a message like that.”
LOL. She’s not against anyone saying it. She’s against anyone thinking it.
And she’s enlisting the help of CNN, the Thought Gestapo, to get us in line.
It’s a statement of fact.
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