Thursday, September 07, 2023

It Is Not Cultural Wars!

Culture
cul·​ture ˈkəl-chər

1
a
: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time
popular culture
Southern culture
b
: the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization
a corporate culture focused on the bottom line
c
: the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic
studying the effect of computers on print culture
Changing the culture of materialism will take time …
—Peggy O'Mara
d
: the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations
The Holocaust was not a cultural war.
The Jim Crow laws were not a cultural war.
The attacks on LGBTQ+ people is not a cultural war.
She was a child-free woman enjoying her Saturday. Then came the culture warriors.
A short TikTok video about making eggs and watching TV turned into a flashpoint within the internet's larger culture war over women and societal expectations.
NBC News
By Kat Tenbarge
September 6, 2023


Julia Mazur was having a relaxing Saturday when she decided to chronicle her day on TikTok. By Sunday, she had become the most recent fodder for the internet’s ongoing culture war around societal expectations for women.

Mazur, 29, had posted a 92-second video to her 7,000 TikTok followers, laying out a day in her life as a single, childless woman, planning to take a crack at making the egg dish shakshuka and watch some TV. The next day, the hate started to pour in.

[…]

He, in this case, is Matt Walsh, a conservative media provocateur who posted Mazur’s video on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to his more than 2.4 million followers, stating that she is “too stupid to realize how depressing this is.” Other conservative pundits piled on. Some on the left came to her defense. Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, argued with former Trump adviser Stephen Miller about it.

[…]

Walsh and many other right-leaning voices are part of a larger conservative movement that promotes what they consider to be traditional family values. That has included targeting medical gender transition procedures and openly criticizing women who have not married and had children. One version of this ideology has become known as “trad wife” content, where women envision ‘50s-style housewife ideals including subservience to their husbands, which has made the practice controversial.
That is not the a “Cultural War” that is misogynistic. Pure and simple! (And transphoblic)
Misogynistic
adjective
mi·​sog·​y·​nis·​tic mə-ˌsä-jə-ˈni-stik
: feeling, showing, or characterized by hatred of or prejudice against women : of, relating to, or being a misogynist
The conservatives want to obfuscate what they are really doing by calling it a “Cultural War” what they want to do is send us back into the 1950s to the era of "Father Knows Best" where a woman’s place is “in the kitchen and pregnant,” Blacks knew their place, gay were being persecuted, and we were forced deep in a closet. That is the goal of the Republicans, a single party system (Like North Korea, Russia and China) and a Christian theocracy (Like Iran).

Vote! Vote Blue” Vote Blue for the sake of all the trans people, vote Blue for all the Blacks, vote Blue for all the lesbians and gays, and vote Blue for the rights of women!

1 comment:

  1. I am not on 'X', Y or Z, so I do wonder of what gender the loudest mouths were. Perhaps, the same guys who chase after single childless women because their tired wives are home taking care of the kids.

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