Feminism and Seriousness
Via Feministing (via Yglesias): A 77 year old German sues a 19 year old for not putting out after having been wined and dined. She said he was too old for her.
“That was shattering. No woman has ever said that to me before,” Eden told the tabloid. “I was crushed.” He has filed charges with the prosecutors’ office, he said. “After all, there are laws against discrimination.”
Funny stuff. You’d think anyone would be able to enjoy in this lovely little bit of absurdity. But you’d be wrong. Feministing comments:
This guy sounds just awful. He once wrote, “I would like to die as I have lived — on a woman.”
Double-ha!
I’m for women having equal rights and being treated respectfully (while preserving my rights to use the c-word in fits of pique) as much as the next socially liberal guy. But seriously, my feminist friends, you don’t find this character at all funny? Not witty, not brilliant. Yes, in poor taste. But come on! Just look at him! This geezer’s pure gold!
What is sad is that some socon Republican evangelist men have shown deep disrespect for this funny old guy on their blogs.
They don’t get the humor because they live by the idea that, if they cannot find the nerve to sleep with their 19 year old daughter’s friend (whom they would really like to sleep with as in the film “Poison Ivy” or “American Beauty”) then they will spend their online blogging time and political activist years condemning all other men who might actually get the opportunity to do what they really want to do.
These socons would really like to raise the age of consent to 21 to match the drinking age. And they have done so quasi in places like Medford, Oregon where I was once actually refused entry to an “under 21” non-alcoholic bar even though I just wanted to check out whether women 18-20 were present.
As a Republican, I want these traitors to men to go join the NOW. Such men were responsible for the Victorian Era in England and the US, where total hypocrits created a matriarchal society on the outside but sought hidden sex with the maid otherwise.