Our culture has long accepted double standards as standard operating
procedure.
It is pervasive in our humor:
Man on park
bench talking to friend: “I know
a place where for $5 they give you a beer a sandwich and take you in the back to
get laid.”
Friend: “What?
For $5 you get a sandwich a beer and get laid?”
Man: “That’s
right, a beer a sandwich and get laid FOR $5!”
Friend: “So
you’ve been there?”
Man: “No,
but my sister goes all the time!”
The double standard is also evident in our general parenting
culture.
Consider stories of a father warning his daughter to stay
away from aggressive boys at parties or on dates but congratulating his son for
‘getting lucky!’
One wonders with whose daughter the son is having that luck!
And of course the double standard has been in our business
world since, well forever!
According to statistics women on average get paid 78% what
men do for the same work!
That appears to be up
from previous polls.
So at least we are moving in the correct direction, right?
Wrong!
It is clear that our political world views women as inferior
or at least the electorate feels that way.
And that does not bode well for equality.
And if you wish to analyze why the people who voted in the
last election felt that a woman could not do the job a man could you don’t have
to look too far.
The answer is in front of your face and in nearly every
newspaper.
Look at the media!
The man lied every time he opened his mouth but the media
never once held his feet to the fire. He was given a pass even when his lies
contradicted his previous lies from a few minutes earlier.
But the media pursued and harped on allegations that the
woman lied because she had said she was a different person in private than in
public.
Really?
Is this earth shattering news?
Who among us are not different in that way?
In fact if you wish to be honest at least with yourself
think about how you act with your parents; your children; your best friends;
your casual acquaintances; your boss; or your siblings.
Forget the Three Faces of Eve; most of us are more akin to
Sybil!
And as for false equivalencies let’s use the
father-son-daughter analogy from above let’s look at the two candidates for the
highest and most important office in America.
On the one hand we have a man who is alleged to have had sex
with several underage girls and does in fact have a court date to discuss this
disgusting predatory behavior. He has
also allegedly assaulted, groped and possibly raped many of age women. He certainly bragged about his prowess in
that regard noting that his celebrity afforded him carte blanche when it came
to women and their bodies.
And then on the other hand we have a woman who has done none
of those reprehensible things but whose husband had fooled around, consensually
with other women.
How could these stories be reported with anything like a
similarity?
CNN constantly had well respected knowledgeable reporters
and analysts who favored the woman paired against the most racist lying team of
supporters for the man as if they were equals.
The woman’s side discussed policies and fixes for all our
problems in America while the man’s group merely said “Wrong!”
And for every new scandal or absurd utterance or non policy
statement made by the man the media also reported their concern over 6 year old
emails by the woman.
And when the woman apologized for the very slight error of
doing what her predecessor had done with her emails it received very little air
time. It remained the single most damning thing she had done in 30 years of
public service.
Of course over the same 30 years the man did nothing to
promote mankind and in fact harmed humanity with his deliberate frauds.
But through it all the media placed both the man and the
woman on equal footing.
This ultimate betrayal of our trust allowed a man with the
least qualifications to be anything other than what he is and always will be, a
con man to be considered the equal to a woman who far out shined him in every possible
important way.
One media company that cannot or should not be allowed to
use the word ‘news’ anywhere in its title has stayed the course in their
incredibly unfair and biased coverage of the man and the woman.
On Fox and Friends Thursday, November 10 at 8:30 am
Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Steve Doocy, and Brian Kilmeade, those pillars of lies,
injustice and the un-American way insisted that the Department of Justice under
President Trump indict, convict, and imprison Hillary Clinton for her use of a
private server.
Equivalency alert!
There is international precedent for governments imprisoning
their opposition.
These include Putin’s Russia, Yanukovych’s Ukraine, Maduro’s
Venezuela, Military Junta’s Myanmar, Kim Jong-un’s Korea, Khamenei’s Iran,
Museveni’s Uganda, Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, Sen’s Cambodia, and Mubarak’s Egypt.
On final equivalency and this one may be the scariest of all.
What is happening here and now in America is eerily
equivalent to 1930s Germany.
And so we now must face a future with a disgusting evil racist
pig in the White House who has already surrounded himself with a team of even
worse disgusting and evil racist pigs.
Shame on all of you who voted for the man because of his
gender.
Shame on all of you who voted for candidates that had no
chance of winning.
And even more shame for those of you who did not vote at
all. You may not want your freedom but your
apathy could very well be the reason the rest of us lose ours!
Is this our new standard?
