Pinkie’s Realm

 With apologies to Virginia Woolf

” Upon awakening from my decrepit grave, I saw it fit to investigate the modern culture of women across the world. I have since discovered a whole new world of technology in which women may utilize, to take charge of their lives, and rightfully fill their place in higher society. To my utter dismay, however, I have come to realize that whereas women may have the same lawful rights of men, they are in no way treated with the same respect that they should be. Unlike my views of the early 1900s, my views now are that women are not respecting themselves in the manner that they should. Regardless of available outlets to display their feminine strength and intelligence, one can easily gather that they are instead prancing around like jezebels in costume-like attire, essentially making jesters of themselves. I, of course, am referring to television shows, which I unfortunately and painfully admit, watched when observing this new device called a “TV”. So I have come to realize that perhaps women, with their money and their freedom, haven’t come quite as far as I had initially hoped. Women are calling to each other using derogatory terms like “bitch”, “slut” and “jezebel”. In fact, a source I found ‘online’ on a ‘computer’, is a virtual magazine entitled (shamefully enough) “Jezebel”. What kind of a message are females projecting to the males of the world, when even they now, refer to each other with such terms? Upon reading this Jezebel, I could feel my ever-present anger I’ve felt in the past towards men, welling up inside me now, except for modern women instead. In an article called “Being in debt from your boob job can make it difficult to rock Bret’s world“, the website Jezebel discusses one woman named Daisy (with her long fake hair extensions, lip injections, boob implants, and tattoos), who is a front-runner on the show. Despite being in debt, Bret “let” her stay on the show. I find this simply apalling. I was hoping the area of relationships and dating would be different, nearly a century later, but it seems it is still just a patriarchy…a world run by men, and the women competing for the love of these powerful and worshipped men. “

OK now speaking as myself (and not the ghost of Virginia Woolf), let me say that I actually have no problem with Jezebel or the magazine Bitch. In fact, they are some of the most entertaining sources of media and culture and feminism I’ve come across. I couldn’t pass up discussing the article about Rock of Love 2, of course. Though I can’t deny that sometims I sit and watch it, laughing and secretly rooting for some of the contestants, I simply will never be able to identify with their mind set. I could never compete with several women for one man, hoping he might like me in comparison to 20 other women…praying to stay another week, begging to stay when he says good-bye. I couldn’t do it, I have way too much pride…and I couldn’t treat other men in the same way. Men shouldn’t idolize women like Daisy with their huge silicon breasts, and puffy silly looking collagen lips–they should look for women who are confident, secure, and willful. That’s my opinion at least…and it’s also my opinion that women should seek out men that won’t just ‘let’ them stick around, but a man who will fight for them, protect them, and need them in return.