{"id":62813,"date":"2017-04-24T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62813"},"modified":"2017-04-20T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T04:02:00","slug":"fierce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62813","title":{"rendered":"Fierce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not long after the inauguration, when Big Feminism threw their nationwide &#8220;Women&#8217;s March&#8221; in media centers around the country, I heard the usual suspects hyperventilating about all the &#8220;strong, fearless, powerful women&#8221; who were converging for the marches.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I saw episodes like t his&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/67vPujX5uxI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and observed that it&#8217;s always the &#8220;feminists&#8221; &#8211; male and female &#8211; who jabber the hardest about how strong, fearless, powerful and &#8220;fierce&#8221; they are that are the first do dive into ofay ad hominem babble (&#8220;your male privilege&#8230;&#8221;, &#8220;mansplaining&#8221;) if you dare dissent from their current gospel in any way.<\/p>\n<p>(I was also tempted to find some of those precious little snowflakes and ask them if they though they could last twenty minutes in my grandmother&#8217;s shoes; she, who raised my dad by herself while running a photography studio, in a small town, during WW2? \u00a0I think not).<\/p>\n<p>David French on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/446881\/feminist-intolerance-traditional-roles-are-shunned-and-devalued\">feminism&#8217;s new shiny toy, the &#8220;Fierce Girl&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are living in the age of the fierce girl. That\u2019s the new feminist ideal. Do you want to make online feminists furious? Just try writing a television or movie script that even implies that \u201cdamsels in distress\u201d need any man to rescue them from danger. No indeed. The modern female action star can take down any number of burly men. Doubt me? Watch Charlize Theron destroy man after man in this trailer for Atomic Blonde.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s modern feminism, telling modern women what they\u00a0<em>must\u00a0<\/em>do and be with their newfound &#8220;choice&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long after the inauguration, when Big Feminism threw their nationwide &#8220;Women&#8217;s March&#8221; in media centers around the country, I heard the usual suspects hyperventilating about all the &#8220;strong, fearless, powerful women&#8221; who were converging for the marches. Of course, I saw episodes like t his&#8230; &#8230;and observed that it&#8217;s always the &#8220;feminists&#8221; &#8211; male [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-men-and-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62814,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62813\/revisions\/62814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}