Posted on 05/19/2015 6:43:58 AM PDT by rightistight
In an article published yesterday by the Guardian, Jessica Valenti explained how your bookshelf might make you a sexist and racist.
Titled, "You might not think you're sexist – until you take a look at your bookshelf," Valenti stated that people who do not have books by women in their collection are sexists.
"When you live in a world with outrageous, explicit misogyny - domestic violence, sexual assault and attacks on reproductive rights, to name a few - it’s easy to breeze by the small stuff," she explains.
She continues, "like it or not, your taste in music, books, television or art says something about you: it sends a message about what you think is worth your time, what you think is interesting and who you think is smart. So if the only culture you pay attention to is created by men, or created by white people, you are making an explicit statement about who and what is important."
Your book case, and the fact that women are underrepresented in popular culture, Valenti writes, "shows we still have a long way to go for equity in cultural representation."
Perhaps one solution is not quoting men at all. "Last year," Valenti details, "technologist Anil Dash, for example, wrote about a new years resolution to only retweet women - he came to the idea after realizing that even though he followed men and women equally, he retweeted men three times as often as women."
(Excerpt) Read more at punditpress.com ...
Let us be blunt.
The writer of that screed should be a candidate for the guillotine.
Period.
The Guardian is always looking for click-bait. I think that is one cynical rag for one that is so proud it isn’t a tab. They advertise for American kids to write essays that they print. This Jessica is just another idiot collecting a tiny paycheck and sending weird messages to the jackass Brits who hang out on CiF.
This woman needs to shut up and make me a sammich.
But I do. Atlas Shrugged. :)
Every day and in every way the left is constantly pushing for justification to convict their opponents of ‘Thought Crime!’ George Orwell’s nightmare vision is becoming increasingly clear as the goal because it is such an easy conviction - “think wrongly and you will be punished!” As the Red Queen dictates - “Sentence FIRST, trial afterwords!”
P.S. "You might not think you're a totalitarian leftist moron – until you take a look at your bookshelf,"
Ms. Valenti-
I don’t give a flying f*ck.
Sincerely, H62
A white woman giving birth to a white baby is racist. If you buy white bread instead of wheat/brown bread you’re a racist. If you only have white appliances in your home then you’re a racist ... /sarc for those that need it.
According to these “jackwagons” just breathing makes me sexist and racist. So ... If I’m going to be accused of something I might as well do it. Enough of this SHITe
Help! I’ve been microaggressed and I can’t get up!
At what point do we say “enough”?
Jessica might be happy to know that I own one book written by a woman: “The Guns of August” by Barbara Tuchman.
I did a while ago ...
If you only have white appliances in your home then you’re a racist ...
OMG! All my appliances are acacado green....
Does this make me a amphibianist?
I am feeling kinda froggy.
When you say “enough”, though, it’s a statement of not tolerating it any longer.
As a society, we need to drop the tolerance for harmful behaviors and ideas, and nip them in the bud.
Avocado green? How retro is that? LOL
When I was growing up our washing machine had a
wringer, and our dryer was the sun...
and only two colors were available,
Avacado Green and Harvest Gold.
I’m older than Saran Wrap...
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