here’s something i hate:
tacking on “-ess” or “-ette” or “-enne” to the end of certain job titles. i think that’s degrading to a point. and even if you think it’s just a way of acknowledging gender without putting it down, it still seperates us as human beings. we’re not meant to seperate ourselves from each other like that. sure, we’re different in some senses, but what makes a comedian different than a comedienne? really? or a human resources manager from a human resources managerette? it’s silly and it’s stupid and it hurts gender relations. and i know of at least one feminist among you who will disagree with me on this without bending.
and here’s another thing i hate:
when people say that women are “so great” or elevate women to some higher regard. where’s the equality in that? women are no better, and no worse, than men. PERIOD. we’re different, but we’re equally inane and ridiculous and terrible and wonderful. for every stupid and evil thing a man does, a woman does the same differently but to equal measure, and in equal proportions. that’s why we have balance; that’s why there are two genders and why one has not out-evolved another and rendered them obsolete. if one gender was actually mo betta than another, nature would pick up on that and run like hell. but noooooo, we’re both still around. it could, of course, be argued that men have been for centuries putting themselves at serious risk in this regard, but i digress.
i stand firm on both of these things.
