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| A note about Narrative, Gaslighting, and the Patriarchy. |
| 2017-09-04 |
| "Gaslighting is the attempt of one person to overwrite another person’s reality." ‐ Everyday Feminism. "Narrative : 4. a story that connects and explains a carefully selected set of supposedly true events, experiences, or the like, intended to support a particular viewpoint or thesis: " ‐ some random online dictionary. Note that the first definition includes the notion that a person has their own reality. That may have been sloppiness on the part of the article writer at Everyday Feminism, or it may be an assumption of the second definition and that your reality is carefully selected to support a particular viewpoint or thesis. ...But how does that work when we can each have our own reality? If your reality, if your carefully constructed narrative to support a thesis of patriarchy and oppression isn’t objectively true, have you gaslighted yourself? Have you? ...lately I’ve been seeing charges and claims of gaslighting made when someone has been led to question their social and political narrative and become uncomfortable. If your narrative is a lie, it may be uncomfortable for you to question it, but it’s not gaslighting. If I argue that women have been almost universally encouraged in any career ambition, and given outward and constant support for at least 30 years, hand-held and helped and even had much of our educational system rearranged specifically to cater to female learning styles, and you’re led to question your reality... I am not gaslighting you. I’m describing the truth of American life. Not my truth. The truth. If I explain the negative effects on boys of all this promotion of girls, I’m describing the truth and I wish you’d listen because the situation is destructive and cruel.If I argue that women have been almost universally encouraged in any career ambition, and given outward and constant support for at least 30 years, hand-held and helped and even had much of our educational system rearranged specifically to cater to female learning styles, and you’re led to question your reality... I am not gaslighting you. I’m describing the truth of American life. Not my truth. The truth. If I explain the negative effects on boys of all this promotion of girls, I’m describing the truth and I wish you’d listen because the situation is destructive and cruel. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BBQ at night while they were drinking beer . This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement. Excellent ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-04 19:01 |
| #3 What AP said! :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara 2017-09-04 18:48 |
| #2 Now THAT is an executive summary of history!!! |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2017-09-04 15:46 |
| #1 HISTORY 101 For those of you who slept through World History 101 here is a condensed version. Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter .The two most important events in all of history were: 1 . The invention of beer, and 2 . The invention of the wheel . The wheel was invented to get man to the beer, and the beer to the man . These facts formed the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups: 1 . Liberals. 2 . Conservatives . Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture . Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery . That's how villages were formed . Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BBQ at night while they were drinking beer . This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement . Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly BBQ's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing . This was the beginning of the Liberal movement . Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women . The rest became known as girlie-men Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy and group hugs, the evolution of the Hollywood actor, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide all the meat and beer that conservatives provided Over the years, Conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant . Liberals are symbolized by the jackass . Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water . They eat raw fish but like their beef well done . Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare . Another interesting evolutionary side note: most liberal women have higher testosterone levels than their men . Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals . Conservatives drink domestic beer . They eat red meat and still provide for their women . Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, firemen, lumberjacks, construction workers, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, golfers, and generally anyone who works productively . Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living . Liberals produce little or nothing . They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production . Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans . That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America . They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing . Here ends today's lesson in world history . It should be noted that a liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it . A conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-09-04 15:31 |