Posted on 01/30/2024 11:41:22 AM PST by nickcarraway
As with almost everything in our Western culture — or what once could be called “culture” — the cause of women’s rights has gone berserk. Also hypocritical. Op-ed.
Have you ever gotten in trouble or received a nasty look when holding an elevator door for an ultra-feminist woman, or pausing when the elevator door opens for all the women inside to get off or for those waiting outside first to get on? If you live outside America’s two Crazy Coasts, know with a certainty that this is not the era of “Ozzie and Harriet” and “Father Knows Best.” Donna Reed? Howzabout crazy left Joyce Reid of MSNBC? Father Knows Best? More like: “Father Is an Idiot and Is Barred by a Restraining Order from Seeing the Kids.”
Please, Jews of Israel. Do not adore America and seek to emulate its culture. Instead, see in America a model of how a very beautiful Idea can be destroyed in a single generation when not moored in Torah guidance.
In this era, you may get yelled at by a crazed Feminist who is ragingly insulted that you, an antediluvian man, have treated the woman as though she is any different from a male. What were you thinking by offering to open the car door for her — that she is too dumb to open a door? Or by allowing her to exit the elevator first — that she is unable to find her way out of an elevator car if there is no one to “mansplain” how to egress?
Gender is “fluid” now, a variation on water incapable of freezing. Men are women (e.g., Biden’s Admiral Rachel Levine and Olympics Bruce — er — Caitlyn Jenner) (yukhsa!), women are men (e.g., Lia Thomas), some are neither (e.g., Demi Lovato, Judith Butler), and others are
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A very interesting thing happened on the way to the forum......
At 81+, quite often people open or hold open doors for me. It is now common enough to be accepted with a “Thank you sir”.
“”””I haven’t had a dirty look for opening a door since the 90s.””””
I cured a college chapter NOW President during the 70s when I had a relationship with her.
Etiquette is for the man to get off the elevator first in case there is a malfunction. You hold the door open for the ladies.
” the cause of women’s rights has gone berserk.”
More truer words have never been spoken.
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