History of Feminism

I am always kind of shocked when a woman says she is "flattered" when a guy hits on her. "Well, I like to think men find me attractive," one women of otherwise-feminist leanings told me when I ask about it.

I mean, men think about sex every two minutes, so I hear, and when the urge strikes it doesn't matter if the object is a woman, a cow, or the knothole in a tree. What's so flattering? "Flattery" is also an interesting word choice, since by definition flattery is falsehood. "I like to think men pretend to find me attractive?" That's just... odd. But obviously ingrained and indoctrinated behavior. And our culture worships "attractiveness," however defined, way too much anyway.

As for the dishonesty, you know the answer to that, too. The last thing a tender ego can admit, it that it is tender. Deary, deary me, it is so HARD to be a male.

-- Mal