A response to Lindsey Stirling
Nov. 5th, 2018 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusSo, a friend of mine shared a series of tweets by someone named Lindsey Stirling this morning. I wanted to say a few word about it.
Hopefully this link works. Tweets start here:
https://twitter.com/LindseyStirling/status/823646216206446592?s=04&fbclid=IwAR03qYXWZm1kiP7UWtB7FlnYKbxeVencFFPlTo1qGALA_mYwvQiQcW0Bxyc
I had to look up who Lindsey Stirling is. She is apparently quite a popular musician - her second album hit #2 on Billboard, so nothing to sneeze at. She has done quite well for herself. Good for her.
Also, apparently an American. She got her start on the game show America's Got Talent - so apparently being on these shows can lead to a successful career after all, contrary to what I previously believed.
She is, however, quite wrong about everything she says in this set of tweets.
Lemme address a few of them:
"I do not feel like I don't have control of my body or choices". Well, it's not really about just you, or your specific feelings. The whole feminism thing is about women who aren't you also. And, speaking of women who aren't you, every single one of those rights you listed, every single thing you listed, was something that women didn't used to be able to do:
"I can make my own choices" - As a performer, you should thank Olivia de Havilland and her landmark lawsuit against Warner Brothers in 1943.
Also, if you are making decisions for spending your own money, you should be thanking the radical feminist Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974. Or, if you are married, did you know that you now have the right to refuse to have sex with your husband when you don't want to? You gained that right thanks to those feminists you deride in 1993. That' right, a mere 25 years ago it became illegal in all 50 states for your husband to rape you.
All these rights were things fought for by women who aren't you.
"I can VOTE". Do you seriously not know that that women didn't used to be able to vote? Did you know that it was not a god-given right, but something that women who were not you fought and in some cases actually died for? And it became possible only in 1920 - less than a hundred years ago.
"I can work if I want" - yep, you can. And you can work at any job you are qualified for, thanks to a bunch of leftists, none of whom were you, who marched, were beaten, and all too frequently killed, to bring you the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including Title VII, which legally prohibits discrimination against women in the workplace.
"I can control my body" - thanks to a lot of fighting, once again by women who aren't you, culminating in the Supreme Court decision Roe vs Wade in 1973.
Every one of these rights you claim to value was fought for by people who aren't you. Radical feminists of the type you scorn in your tweets.
And all of those rights are currently being defended by people who aren't you. They are marching and, in some cases, dying, to preserve these rights that you claim you value. You did not get any of these rights yourself or through your own virtue. They were given to you by brave women who marched and fought and were beaten and tortured and killed to give them to you. And now you attack the brave women who are marching and fighting and being beaten and tortured and killed to preserve them for you.
I don't know if you actually had such an abysmal education as a youth that you never learned about any of this history of, more likely, if your ideology is just so twisted you have to pretend it doesn't exist. Either way, these women are still fighting for you. And I'm supporting them as best as I can, because these *are* rights worth preserving.
You're welcome.
The rest of the tweets are just shallow whataboutism trying to claim that since some people have it worse everybody else should stop trying to preserve or improve anything, and not worth responding to beyond that.
That said, let me jump back to the beginning to address your claim that you're not a "disgrace to women". Yeah, you really kind of are. But don't worry, other women, who aren't you, will continue fighting to preserve these rights you like so much.
Hopefully this link works. Tweets start here:
https://twitter.com/LindseyStirling/status/823646216206446592?s=04&fbclid=IwAR03qYXWZm1kiP7UWtB7FlnYKbxeVencFFPlTo1qGALA_mYwvQiQcW0Bxyc
I had to look up who Lindsey Stirling is. She is apparently quite a popular musician - her second album hit #2 on Billboard, so nothing to sneeze at. She has done quite well for herself. Good for her.
Also, apparently an American. She got her start on the game show America's Got Talent - so apparently being on these shows can lead to a successful career after all, contrary to what I previously believed.
She is, however, quite wrong about everything she says in this set of tweets.
Lemme address a few of them:
"I do not feel like I don't have control of my body or choices". Well, it's not really about just you, or your specific feelings. The whole feminism thing is about women who aren't you also. And, speaking of women who aren't you, every single one of those rights you listed, every single thing you listed, was something that women didn't used to be able to do:
"I can make my own choices" - As a performer, you should thank Olivia de Havilland and her landmark lawsuit against Warner Brothers in 1943.
Also, if you are making decisions for spending your own money, you should be thanking the radical feminist Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974. Or, if you are married, did you know that you now have the right to refuse to have sex with your husband when you don't want to? You gained that right thanks to those feminists you deride in 1993. That' right, a mere 25 years ago it became illegal in all 50 states for your husband to rape you.
All these rights were things fought for by women who aren't you.
"I can VOTE". Do you seriously not know that that women didn't used to be able to vote? Did you know that it was not a god-given right, but something that women who were not you fought and in some cases actually died for? And it became possible only in 1920 - less than a hundred years ago.
"I can work if I want" - yep, you can. And you can work at any job you are qualified for, thanks to a bunch of leftists, none of whom were you, who marched, were beaten, and all too frequently killed, to bring you the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including Title VII, which legally prohibits discrimination against women in the workplace.
"I can control my body" - thanks to a lot of fighting, once again by women who aren't you, culminating in the Supreme Court decision Roe vs Wade in 1973.
Every one of these rights you claim to value was fought for by people who aren't you. Radical feminists of the type you scorn in your tweets.
And all of those rights are currently being defended by people who aren't you. They are marching and, in some cases, dying, to preserve these rights that you claim you value. You did not get any of these rights yourself or through your own virtue. They were given to you by brave women who marched and fought and were beaten and tortured and killed to give them to you. And now you attack the brave women who are marching and fighting and being beaten and tortured and killed to preserve them for you.
I don't know if you actually had such an abysmal education as a youth that you never learned about any of this history of, more likely, if your ideology is just so twisted you have to pretend it doesn't exist. Either way, these women are still fighting for you. And I'm supporting them as best as I can, because these *are* rights worth preserving.
You're welcome.
The rest of the tweets are just shallow whataboutism trying to claim that since some people have it worse everybody else should stop trying to preserve or improve anything, and not worth responding to beyond that.
That said, let me jump back to the beginning to address your claim that you're not a "disgrace to women". Yeah, you really kind of are. But don't worry, other women, who aren't you, will continue fighting to preserve these rights you like so much.
