Feminists Are All Lesbian Man-haters That Yell About Nonsense, Right?

While the classic jokes about female drivers and blondes and big girls and tomboys may be told in plain good fun, I feel they promote an injustice against women. I think that women should reject the stereotypes our culture tries to squeeze us into so that we can rise to our full potential. So here is where my overall rage lays. Women continue putting up with a set of jokes and stereotypes that they don’t want to laugh along with. The jokes are purely sexist, totally cliché and simply not funny. And we put up with them because if we don’t laugh along, we automatically become humorless lesbians or man-hating feminists.

"Feminism is about turning that dominance model on its head in every realm, including language. One recurring feature of feminist discussion about pejorative speech is that the person with the lesser power gets to decide what is offensive to them, and that we should be listening to their voices, not those of the dominant group. In the case of sexist language, women have the voices that count, the voices that all need to listen to. For racist speech, women of colour. For classist speech, poor women. For disablist speech, disabled women. For anti-lesbian speech, lesbian women. Fattist speech, fat women. And so on, and so on."

The fact is that discrimination is illegal and awareness is rising. This is not a country in which women are legally prohibited from voting any more, or not permitted from having certain jobs. We just use the media to show that some aspect of life shouldn’t be considered ordinary for women. We do not have endemic discrimination, we merely have localized sexist humor, a slight employment bias, and a drop bigotry now and then.