So this thing called "Club Random" started showing up on my Facebook page. I checked it out because I'm part magpie, hence all the tiny homes decor porn showing up in my feed now too.
Also, it's with Bill Maher, and I was curious as to what the fat-shaming whinge-bag was up to these days.
The set up in the clip I watched is Bill sitting in an oversized armchair across from a guest in another oversized armchair. Think Big Comfy Couch except instead of Luna the Clown asking: "Who made this big mess?" it's Bill Maher.
Also, there's a liquor, pot, cigars stash beside him.
The message is clear: STAY OUT, MOM!
Anyway, in one clip I saw - and if you've seen one you've seen them all - Bill was complaining that everything's about women, still, when it's men who need help.
Men are lost.
Then, after the clip, Bachelor Bill pops up to tell viewers to subscribe to get the full episode, which I can't imagine anybody who's just watched the clip actually doing, but whatever. To each their own.
It's a whiggly whirld, as my brilliant friend, K, who died of a horrible inherited disease called Creutsfeldt-Jakob, would say to explain the inexplicable.
She married a man so he could stay in Canada. No expectations. He didn't have to be her personal sex worker, maid, nurse in exchange for citizenship. And after a short while they parted ways, no money changing hands.
It stands to reason she described our whirld as whiggly.
Anyway, I'm glad I watched a couple of clips because they got me thinking about why the belief persists among some in our society that men being lost is even a thing, and if it is a thing, that it's new, and if it's new that it's because of Feminism as opposed to the Patriarchy still throwing its crushing weight around.
By the way, gender isn't just a bit of a social construct. It's entirely one. No one is born a girl and no one is born a boy. It's all nurture, baby. Just like no one is born a racist and no one is born a misogynist.
But back to Club Random and Bill Maher's insistence that it's men we should all be helping, not women. Enough about women. Women have it great. Men are falling behind (subtext: because women get to be people now too).
Well, sorry not sorry, Bill Maher, but all it takes is a look around to see men being freer than ever in history, and still dominating in technology, the trades, business, medicine, law, politics, policing and ice time. And yes, women are doing better than ever, too, except all the civil and human rights we had to fight for are in constant threat of being taken away - by men. Femicide and intimate partner violence remain ongoing epidemics.
A man feels perfectly comfortable going for a late night walk, alone, maybe along a secluded trail. Most women can't conceive of doing such a thing. We can't even risk a walk alone at night from a bus stop.
Women don't go out alone at night. That simple pleasure is denied us world over. Because men.
Women are still blamed when men sexually assault us. Pregnancy remains our problem, child and elder care up to us, keeping the family together, putting our man's professional ambitions before our own.
Don't get me started on emotional labour.
Bill Maher lives in a country threatening to become a theocracy ffs and he thinks it's men who have problems.
Men are lost alright. Maybe ask women for directions. We'll tell you where to go.
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