Mark Dice - Liberalism - Find a Cure

She goes on to complain that men, “stand around the big fire, drinking beer and discussing the best way to cook meat [but] the women sit around a table, drinking rosé and perhaps making a salad,” and asks, “where else socially do we segregate ourselves so strongly?” 733

Apparently it’s not just grilling meat which is a problem. Just eating it is. A Ph.D. candidate at Pennsylvania State University argues that simply eating meat perpetuates “hegemonic masculinity.” She argues that, “Doing vegetarianism in interactions drives social change, contributing to the de-linking of meat from gender hegemony and revealing the resisting and reworking of gender in food spaces.” 734She also said that, “vegetarians defy attempts to hold them accountable to gendered social expectations,” whatever the hell that means.

Virtually nothing is safe from being sucked into the social justice warrior vortex where everything is racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ablest, etc., etc.— not even air conditioning. As you know, most women wear skirts even in the winter time (which is completely asinine), but they want to show off their legs and as much skin as possible, so they wear skirts and sleeveless low cut tops to the office, whereas men wear a suit and tie (which is also asinine, but that’s a subject for a whole other book).

And because women choose to wear such skimpy clothes, they often get cold, even in the office during the summer time since the air conditioning keeps room temperatures down in the low seventies or upper 60s, depending on who is in control of the thermostat.

But for feminists there’s more to it than that. They see a sexist conspiracy behind it all. “Most AC units are designed for a man’s body temperature — not a woman’s” says one columnist who whined about the “sexist air-conditioning” problem in offices in an article titled “Air Conditioning In Your Office is Sexist: True Story.” 735She went on to explain, “In modern offices, most climate control systems are based on the resting metabolic rate of a 40-year-old man, which runs up to 30 per cent faster than a woman’s.” 736

Since men have more muscle, their core body temperature is slightly higher on average than women (only .4 degrees higher), and one study cites the average hand temperature for women is 87.2 degrees, while men’s are 90 degrees. 737

This particular columnist went on to warn about the “dangers” of offices being too cold saying they cause “thicker blood,” an “increase in blood pressure” and the “tightening of the airwaves.” She concludes her sob story by saying, “If that’s not an incentive for employers to finally sort out the AC problem once and for all, I don’t know what is.” 738What the hell does she want employers to do? Segregate men and women, putting them into different offices so the women can have a separate HVAC unit and keep the temperature warmer?

Other outlets have covered this “controversy,” including The Washington Post with their “investigation” titled, “Frigid Offices, Freezing Women, Oblivious Men.” 739

A Time magazine writer was upset that the issue wasn’t being taken seriously enough by society and also concluded that air conditioning is sexist. “Certain facts, no matter how well-established, are always being contested by those who think that just because they themselves do not understand or experience them, that they are not, in fact, facts,” she wrote, pointing to the same “evidence” of women’s body temperature being lower than men’s. 740

The New York Times reported, “Chilly at Work? Office Formula Was Devised for Men,” and mentioned a recent “study” that looked into the conspiracy by the Nature Climate Change journal which recommended it’s time to end “gender-discrimination” in “thermal comfort.” 741

Since feminists think the world revolves around them, the solution to this “problem” isn’t to just put on a sweater, or stop wearing skimpy clothes to the office, but that the standardized office temperature should be raised by a few degrees, which would obviously cause men wearing heavy sports coats and tight collars wrapped with ties around their necks to become uncomfortably warm with no recourse because most dress codes require men to wear a suit and tie. 742

After a viral meme game on Twitter of people wishing for certain kinds of Disney Princesses called “We Need a Disney Princess Who… [fill in the blank], a Planned Parenthood branch tweeted (and then later deleted), “We need a Disney Princess who’s had an abortion,” sparking outrage and disgust among conservatives. But Jezabel , a radical feminist website created by Gawker Media and currency owned by Univision, endorsed the idea and posted an article titled, “Statistically, at Least 2 Disney Princesses Have Had Abortions,” 743and cited a poll claiming 23.7 percent of women will have had an abortion by the age of 45.

Some researchers say that figure is inaccurate because it’s based on certain subgroups of women (poor, and black) who have a much higher abortion rate compared to the general population, and then those numbers were extrapolated to represent all women, which is a flawed methodology, but that’s a whole other story.

Jezabel then tallied up the number of Disney Princesses and concluded, “That means statistically around two and a half of these strong women have gotten abortions and aren’t telling you about it because of a national culture of shame and misogyny!!!” 744

It continued, “We also know that emotionally authentic portrayals of these experiences are still extremely rare — and that’s part of a much bigger lack of honest depictions of certain people’s lives and communities. Okay, this is all fine, but cartoons can have abortions and two of these ones—if not more!—almost certainly have.” 745

One Planned Parenthood branch president issued a statement about the controversy saying, “Planned Parenthood believes that pop culture—television shows, music, movies—has a critical role to play in educating the public and sparking meaningful conversations around sexual and reproductive health issues and policies, including abortion.” 746

In 2004, a feminist launched the “I Had an Abortion” campaign, encouraging women to “come out” and publicly admit that they had an abortion in order to “reduce the stigma” around it. Some women even wore “I Had an Abortion” t-shirts, including Ms Magazine founder Gloria Steinem. 747

A few years later a woman decided to start the “Shout Your Abortion” challenge by posting on her Facebook page that she got an abortion at a Planned Parenthood facility the previous year and encouraged other women to brag online about their abortions too. 748Actress Lena Dunham said she wishes she had an abortion so she could better identify with other women. 749

The online dating website OkCupid partnered with Planned Parenthood to allow users to include support of abortion on their profiles and enable people to find others on the site who also support abortion. As you know, all dating sites (and apps) allow people to search for others with common interests like sports, cooking, and other hobbies; but OkCupid was the first to include supporting abortion as a common interest.

“OkCupid’s partnership with Planned Parenthood is really exciting because it enables us to help people connect on the issues that matter to them,” said their Chief Marketing Officer Melissa Hobley. 750“In this current climate, this matters more than ever when it comes to finding ‘your person.’ We know that Planned Parenthood is driving conversations, support and education that millions care about. When we looked at the data, we saw that our community on OkCupid was talking about Planned Parenthood, so we decided to make it easy to find the folks who cared about the same thing.” 751