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How to Become a Cat Lady
 Robert Stacy McCain does a preliminary sendup of an article on feminist dating by a leftist woman.The inlines belong to McCain As does the pic Lisa Bonos (@lisabonos) has published a column headlined “How to find a feminist boyfriend” that reads like an Onion parody: “I find it really attractive how successful you are,” my date said, leaning in for a kiss. Sure, it sounds like a line. But it also sounds like feminism. . . . (No, it’s a line. Trust me.) [W]hat I want a partner to be: cute, smart, funny and … yes, feminist. So go ahead, alert Susan Patton, Lori Gottlieb and the rest of the get-married-already crowd: A 30-something single woman, eggs unfrozen, is telling other single women that they should dare to want it all if they ever hope to have it all. . . . (Hint: If you’re a “30-something single woman,” you’ll be lucky if you get to have any of it, much less “have it all.”) But how do you spot a male feminist if he’s not at an abortion rights rally wearing a “This Is What a Feminist Looks Like” T-shirt? It shouldn’t be hard. After all, as Aziz Ansari said on David Letterman’s show recently, everyone’s a feminist now. Unless you think Beyonce shouldn’t have the right to vote, should earn 23 percent less than Jay-Z and should be at home cooking rather than performing. And who would think that? Few guys will proudly say no when asked if they’re feminists. . . . (Few guys who want to sleep with Lisa Bonos would say that, perhaps, but exactly how many guys want to sleep with Lisa Bonos?) Instead it’s a wholehearted yes, a lukewarm maybe or Can you define what you mean by “feminist,” please? . . . (In some cases, it means “lonely bisexual English major.”) Here’s how I’m defining it: Feminist daters — male or female, gay or straight — aren’t constrained by gender roles. Anyone can do the asking-out, the feelings-confessing or the initiating of any kind. (Perhaps you see why bisexual English majors are so often lonely.) A feminist dater or boyfriend (and yes, feminists have boyfriends) is aware of the ways women have traditionally been held back, by others and by our own accord, and actively pushes against that. He’s sensitive to the fact that women’s bodies are frequently judged, abused and legislated, and takes no part in that. He gets it. . . . You can read the rest and “get it.” It’s really a Craigslist ad disguised as an op-ed column, a pseudo-defiant gesture typical of certain women who have wasted their 20s in a series of going-nowhere “relationships.” On Twitter, Kyle Smith offers an alternate headline: How to remain single until you are Maureen Dowd’s age Maybe I’ll come back with more snark later, but this column is just such a motherlode of nonsense, it needs a special touch. Posted by: badanov 2015-01-04 |
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