Apparently, misogyny only exists in first world capitalist nations.
In Case You Haven’t Noticed, Misogyny Has A Lot To Do With Capitalism
I’ve been thinking a lot about the UC Santa Barbara shooter. Online feminists are boiling with rage at the idea that a man would shoot women for not finding him desirable, and we’ve read a lot about the misogyny that clearly pervaded his mind.
But I’m not so sure where to draw the line between misogyny and plain old consumer capitalism on this one — or any of them.
I mean, what’s the basic impulse of capitalism? “I want, I want, I want.” (I recently heard someone say on TV, “How the hell can people say we’re a Christian society with a commandment like ‘Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods’? That’s the basis of our entire economy!”)
In America, having the means to purchase what you covet is also the basis of social status, and thus power. People look up to you on the basis of your education, your income and the good taste to display it with the “right” possessions. We’re all brainwashed, right? It’s a pretty fucking shallow way to live.
No, Ms. Madrak, you are living the shallowest life of all. Blaming only YOUR immediate surroundings for all the ills of all women, when less than 1000 miles to the south, in a tequila ridden socialist nation, women have it so much worse than you ever will.
Or a few thousand more miles away, where women are still bought and sold as property.
But none of them matter to you unless MSNBC or al-Jazeera reports on it because you are so put upon to have to defend your voting record of the last decade. And those damnable “Rethuglicans”. And let us not even mention the fact that some people want to sell stuff and other people want to buy stuff so the people that want to sell stuff advertise their stuff.
I know, it is so horrible. #first world problems and all that.
