Posted on 01/10/2020 11:05:35 AM PST by Morgana
The NBC sitcom Superstore regularly carries water for liberal causes ranging from illegal immigration to unionization. This week, in the episode “Lady Boss” on January 9, the show pulled out all the stops for radical feminism.
The feminist push began when Jonah (Ben Feldman), the store’s resident left-wing activist and all-around annoying busy-body, desperately looked for a cause to latch onto now that the store’s unionization hopes have died. He found it when he saw feminist “girl power” apparel on the mannequins. Excited by the feminist clichés like “Lady Boss” and “Girls Rule” on the t-shirts for sale, he decided to add costuming like STEM-related lab coats to the apparel.
Soon co-worker Dina (Laura Ash) informs Jonah of the “pink tax,” a completely false idea that companies deliberately charge women more than men for the same products. (Women usually face higher prices because of issues like higher costs involved in the creation of their products. Businesses want to make money. They have no interest in charging women more out of a mythical allegiance to “patriarchy.”)
Shocked by his discovery of the “pink tax” and thinking he's contributing to the commercialization of feminism, Jonah decided to pack up and put away the display. Male workers in the store got excited about this. “You're fighting back because men are under attack,” a male co-worker said. “By shirts?” Jonah asked, confused. “Yeah, I mean haven't you noticed that the entire women's clothing section just keeps getting bigger? And now they got these rad shirts that are only made for women?” the co-worker replied.
Realizing that the male workers in the store were feeling underappreciated, Jonah convinced his boss Amy (America Ferrerra) to set up a meeting in the employee cafeteria. As you can imagine, it turned into a nauseating display of left-wing feminist myths.
Jonah: It sounds to me like a lot of these frustrations stem from a sense of powerlessness. Which historically, has been something that women have had to deal contend with.
Marcus: Yeah, but they're not powerless anymore. I mean, Amy and Dina run the frickin' store. And now the new CEO? All men have left are the NFL and the country.
Male workers: That's right! Yeah! [Grumbling and chatter]
Jonah: Guys, look, feminism can exist without this feeling that something is being taken away from you, you know? And--and--and honestly, if you listen to-- to what the women are saying…
Dina: What? What are the women saying, Jonah?
Jonah: Right, yes, yeah, yeah. That's a good-- that's a good point. I think we should probably hear a few more, uh, female voices.
Dan: I'll give you a female voice. My wife: "Do this, do that. Ugh, I'm Donna!" [Men laughing]
Dina: [Laughing] I know I'm not being a very good feminist right now, but I've met his wife, and that was spot on.
Cheyenne: Personally, I'm not a feminist.
Amy: What?
Cheyenne: Yeah, I just think that men and women should be treated equally.
Amy: Yeah, Cheyenne, that's what feminism means.
Cheyenne: Oh, well, now I wish I was a feminist.
Glenn: Okay, I've heard what you all are saying, um, but as a father of a daughter…
Garrett: Listen up, ladies, father of a daughter talking.
Glenn: Thank you. Of course I want the world to be better for Rose, but I want it to stay the same for me. Is that too much to ask?
Male Workers: That's all I want. [Indistinct chatter]
Dina: Yes, that's the problem.
Jonah: Okay, okay, okay! This is great, this is healthy, this is--this is-- we're--we're dialoguing. Okay.
Dan: Yeah, it feels kinda good. I mean, you know, I know I say I'm mad, but the truth is, I'm scared.
Where do we start with all the lies in this scene? First of all, contemporary feminism, with its pussy-hats, abortion shouting, marriage destruction, and general contempt for both men and women who like men, does not merely advocate that “men and women should be treated equally.” If that were indeed so, more women would accept the feminist label. As it stands right now, only 23% of American women identify as feminists. The reason so many women reject the feminist label is because they recognize that 4th wave radical feminism is destructive and poisons healthy relations between the sexes.
Also, men are not “scared” that things will not “stay for same” for them. In countless ways things are not good for them in the U.S. right now at all. Male suicides are at epidemic proportions, the “boy crisis” continues apace, and women are outperforming men on major educational and socio-economic indicators. Making the world worse for men does not make it better for women. The problem is bigger than t-shirts.
Of course, the show recycled the “gender pay gap” myth, leaving out the fact that the wage gap lie does not “account for differences in occupations, positions, job tenure or hours worked per week.” All of which is very significant data to ignore.
In the end, the men stop working in a huff after Amy ignores them at the meeting while she is on the phone. They start working again when she agrees to make a male employee, Glenn (Mark McKinney), a floor supervisor (a position she had already offered him, but he had hedged on taking). The men all end up looking ridiculous and petty.
Hollywood creates stuff like this and they wonder why Americans hate them.
Go into any department store and compare the women's clothing section to the men's section. Women demand a huge selection of styles, colors, etc, which means stores have a huge inventory cost stocking women's clothes.
Then you have how many clothes women try on before making a decision.
Then you have the rate at which women buy something, take it home, change their minds, return, etc.
Feminism hates all the foregoing because it interferes with their acquisition of more power and more stuff.
If the only possible reason men reject feminist hags is because they’re scared, what is the reason feminist hags reject men?
Butchism wouldn’t have sold as well.
Marxism is always a zero-sum game. In order for “feminists” to win, men have to lose. Look at it honestly, every gain women have made in the last half a century has come at the expense of men.
Who watches this crap? If always amazes and depresses me when I see the worthless junk that makes up the top rated shows.
I had one try to do that to me, but I informed her that, while I was simply being polite, and had held the door not only for her, but for the other males who were directly behind me, but in front of her. She huffed off in a fit.
Human females.
No we don’t hate feminism and yes we are scared. Feminists can end our careers with a single sentence. That scares the living heck out of me. Feminism is supposed to be about equality not superiority so I don’t hate it.
Actually today women seem gracious and appreciative when you hold the door for them.
We went through a period of time though during the 70’s where they took it as a personal insult.
“Wrong. Men hate feminism because they LOVE WOMEN.
And feminists do their best to destroy that which we love.”
There is the truth! We love women BECAUSE of the difference.
I have a co-worker who years ago held the door for a woman who was coming up behind him at a New York restaurant.
When she got to the door the woman turned out to be comedienne Anne Meara. He says she was very appreciative. “Awwww.....such a gentleman!” They had a nice chat and he says she was very gracious.
True. But you still get the biatch.
And women who blame men for all their problems.
Feminism is of the devil. It defies God’s authority & natural order.
And it’s goal is to emasculate men.
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