Here it is almost 2009, and I find myself wondering if misogynist Jon Favreau is having a good time playing at sexually assaulting women at the season's holiday parties. Perhaps Jon Favreau has found a Sarah Palin look-alike to demean and sexually objectify and laugh and joke about. Perhaps Jon Favreau has graduated to the real thing.
I haven't forgotten that President-elect Obama's chief speechwriter is a misogynist. I haven't forgotten Barack Obama's silence, and I won't forget.
Heart explains why we should not forget:
. . . If women would just let it go when they are mistreated, badgered or abused by men, or when they come across sexist imagery in media or on billboards, if they’d just turn off the music when it’s misogynist, why, things would be absolutely copacetic and fine and dandy, but what do women do, they make this HUGE DEAL. They won’t just forget about it. They’re vindictive and vengeful. They have rage problems. They have no sense of humor.
And by way of this particular reign of terror, really, this standard to which girls and women have been held since time immemorial — just don’t talk about it, just forget it, don’t cause problems in the family, don’t make a big deal of it — it is 2008 and women remain second class citizens and we are abused and battered and raped in numbers greater than anybody ever suspected. It goes on and on and on.
The problem, you know, is not that women are talking about what harms us. In fact, it is only when women make a big deal of things that ANYTHING ever changes for us, and even then, things rarely change much and never quickly.
Those who suggest we should just let the Jon Favreau incident go, forget about it, are not thinking about women’s history, this bigger picture or the implications for women when we are told to be quiet and stop making such a big deal of misogyny. They aren’t thinking about women at all. The problem isn’t that feminists are talking about the photo and posting it; the problem is that the incidents leading to the taking of the photo occurred in the first place, were photographed and posted to the internet. The problem is the misogyny of the President’s “Speechwriter in Chief.”
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