(Image H/T: Liberal Logic 101)
Frankly, I grow weary of people who can find darkness 360 all around them all the time. These are people who just can’t get over the fact that, by definition, life isn’t fair. And when you take away manners (the grease of civilization) and any semblance of roles, you get this horse pucky: of mistaking chivalry and manners for a newly identified form of sexism:
Why chivalry may not always be what it seems: Men who hold doors open and smile may actually be sexist, study claims
Boston researchers carried out a study into types of sexism in men They say there are two types of sexists, identifiable by their smile ‘Hostile sexist men’ were less approachable and less friendly Those who displayed ‘benevolent sexism’ were nicer and smiled more. If you’re the sort of gentleman who holds the door open for a lady – or the sort of woman who expects him to – then be warned. Such acts of chivalry may actually be ‘benevolent sexism‘ in disguise, according to researchers. Experts say this type of sexism is harder to spot than the ‘hostile sexism’ we are more familiar with – because it often masquerades as gallantry. It is typified by paternal and protective behaviour, from encouraging smiles to holding doors open.
This is like climate change between the sexism; global warming causes higher temperatures – except for when the temperatures fall. It causes more extreme weather events – except when it doesn’t. So it is with this sexism; it is anti-woman behavior until it isn’t.
So it comes down to a damned if you don’t and damned if you are – polite that is. Trying to keep a sense of manners about you AND practicing them (er, living them). Showing a lack of respect – YOU SEXIST PIG!!! Then you try and these nitwits (and feminists) are unhappy over that, so it seems. Can’t win, so drop out. But that brings on another complaint – “some” women whine “There are no good men to marry!”. OK, I’ll be sexist (after all, uber-Progressive of Granite State Progress, Zandra Rice-Hawkins, accuses me of being such all the time): if you keep alienating the dating pool the way you have been (and the Obama Administration with its campus regs on sexual relations making it worse), well, decisions and actions have consequences. You’ve done done it to yourselves.
US researchers argue that while women may enjoy being showered with attention, benevolent sexism is ‘insidious’ and men who are guilty of it see women as incompetent beings who require their ‘cherished protection’.
Hmm, and anti-Christian too – I am commanded to lay down my life for my wife and protect her. That is sexist? What would they do – pull a Mike Dukakis and just stand there with a silly Liberal smile on my face?
Professor Judith Hall, of Northeastern University in Boston, said: ‘Benevolent sexism is like a wolf in sheep’s clothing that perpetuates support for gender inequality among women. ‘These supposed gestures of good faith may entice women to accept the status quo in society because sexism literally looks welcoming, appealing and harmless.’
Ah yes, there is badness everywhere these folks look – and they can make it up if they can’t find it, either. Yes, I said that – look hard enough and deconstruct stuff enough, you’ll find it if that is what you want to find.
…Men who are guilty of benevolent sexism see women as ‘warm and pure, yet helpless and incompetent beings’. Study co-author Jin Goh said: ‘Benevolent sexist men hold women in high regard and are willing to sacrifice themselves to save and protect women. However, benevolent sexist men perceive women as the weaker gender at the same time. ‘Unless sexism is understood as having both hostile and benevolent properties, the insidious nature of benevolent sexism will continue to be one of the driving forces behind gender inequality in our society.’
And some times, it is just a guy that was raised right with a full complement of manners. I guess that is another thing that Political Correctness can’t stand, either.
