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."
No, it isn’t sexist.
“Girls rule”, a meme I’ve seen on t-shirts for girls, is sexist.
I think that women should not be upset. It says nothing about them. If anything a house husband should be mad. At least if he’s the thin skinned type. The billboard does not say that women can’t provide. It says nothing about a women producing, they can produce as well.
The only thing it says about women is that they should appreciate a man providing. Not sure why people would have a problem with that. It does not say that all he has to do is provide. It just says for that point, a women should be appreciative.
To many women, the man IS the bacon.
Here she is, top left in blue dress:
http://npaper-wehaa.com/yes-weekly/2015/09/09/#?article=2598074
It’s very vague.
the MAN that was supposed to bring home the bacon.
= = =
Is that the underlying mooslime problem?
Shucks. I suspect that this group or protestors would actually admit to having done so!!
If there are criteria other than biology for a “real man” or “real woman,” that seems to me to open the possibility that a person can be something other than his/her biological sex.
Perhaps the upset lady will think it through and realize that the billboard renters are really on her (leftist) side!
So if she is seeing it as only about monetary things then it says a great deal about her.
Be VERY funny if that turned out to be who put it out.
Mmmm...milk and eggs...milk and bacon...milk and...Udderly delicious!
That would be very interesting.
NO. The sign is a statement of Chivalry.
Chivalry is a warrior’s code and only practiced by warriors.
And that is sad.
Also one of the few who makes dresses I can wear. Not that I can afford anything in the collection you understand. Not unless it shows up at the Salvation Army and that nice clerk saves it for me!
That’s how it is in our household. The appreciation goes both ways because we both work so hard.
Feminists don’t understand how to be appreciative, hard working or grateful. That is probably who is pissed off about this billboard.
I think there is a lot of truth to that but I think they ought to take that one down and put one up that says “Does this sign make my butt look fat?”
Not quite what I expected. A woman all tatted up like that while wearing the dress she’s wearing is anomalous. Trying to be a bitchy feminist and woman at the same time - she’s not pulling it off.
I love my Salvation Army store!
I yearn for the times where men were men, and women were grateful!
Not saying that it is, but Ralph Lauren has a large and growing presence in the vicinity of Winston-Salem. All manner of distribution, customer service, even some product management and product marketing.
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