Tim Hunt and the Anti-Feminist
Connie St Louis is a classic anti-feminist using the tactics misogynists have, for millennia, used to demean women & children.
Witnessing the shameful way feminist Tim Hunt had his words twisted by knaves by Connie St Louis to make a trap for fools in his attempt to expose the truth of the workplace as an oftimes hostile place for women, raised my feminine hackles.
I was blessed to have many Magnificent Gentleman in my life – my father – a true gentleman – in love & awe of my mummy, an ‘I Am Woman Hear Me Roar’ feminist academic.
Together with the precious little ancient nuns who educated me in our all girls convent to differentiate between gentlemen & those “men who think they rule the world”. They also made me acutely aware that there were girls prepared to use the misogynist hegemony to suit their own purposes. We called these girls anti-girlfriends.
Connie St Louis is a classic example on an anti-girlfriend – a bad hat.
It makes me especially sad when women turn against those few men brave enough to stand up for women. It will make other sympathetic men think twice before admitting the truth of the pitfalls of the male dominated workplace.
Misogyny is an ideology & feminism is the alternative ideology.
Misogyny diminishes us all, not just women.
Misogyny is the root of all injustice, from racism to homophobia to the destruction of our planet for misogyny is the ethos of might is right.
While half the worlds population is subjugated to the other half, none of us can be free.
Germaine Greer said “women don’t realise how much men really hate us!” But NOT all men DO hate us although many men are quite reasonably reluctant to change a system that puts them in pole position.
To me feminism is a call to charms to both men and women to stand shoulder to shoulder in defending the vulnerable & fighting injustice.
I was fortunate also to marry two men who stood shoulder to shoulder with me in bringing up our three children even after our marriage was broken.
I would like to raise a toast to honour my father, my two husbands, my two sons & all GENTLEMEN in the true sense of the word.
A salute to Gentle Men & Good Hats & Good Eggs everywhere, brave enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with their mothers, wives daughters & female-coworkers! Brava!
