[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I have zero interest in darts, zero interest in F1, zero interest in modelling, and zero interest in seeing young girls waving off fast cars in tight dresses. Literally, none. I just straight up think that the concept that women (or anyone) should be able to dictate to other women what jobs are / aren't "appropriate" for them to do, and that this is somehow in the name of empowering women, is utterly ridiculous. I mean, there are plenty of things that men do for money that I wouldn't do, and that if I had a son I wouldn't particularly want him to do, that perpetuate male stereotypes etc., but do I want to stop other people from doing those jobs of their own free will? No, because that's authoritarian nonsense and it's none of my business how they choose to use their bodies or minds. That is free will, that is individualism. The idea that a women "must" behave in a certain way and "can't" or "shouldn't" do certain things is the absolute opposite of empowerment.

So... Secondly... and I have to be pretty blunt about this: The idea that it's "hilarious, transparent, obvious" that men are only concerned about this "because they want to see teh ladies with teh boobies" and are just making the rest up to fit that agenda is short-sighted, offensive, divisive, agenda driven twaddle. It might be true of a small number? I don't know. I do know that it certainly isn't true of myself and that it's a gross, and mostly entirely false, stereotype. It's also pretty ****ing sexist, but there you go.

Well it's very easy to spout that logic of "well I wouldn't be bothered if men were doing jobs I don't want to do" when men are not discriminated against, looked at like play thing to amuse women and are looked at like inferior beings to men. It's much more than taking jobs away from women.