CONTRADICTIONS OF FEMINISM

 (My first political blog since 2022, short but pithy.  No, I'm not "misogynist" (a point I also make below), but I am intrigued by the finding of psychology that we humans often believe contradictory things simultaneously--GF)  

Now that we are into third-wave feminism, where women managers proudly have signs on their desks reading “Girl Boss,” and the ultimate goal of “women’s liberation” is for women to be CEOs and managers, such as the female head of GM, which is now feeling the heat of the UAW strike against it and the other Big Three automakers (Update:  GM just settled with the UAW, making major concessions to the union.  Ford also settled, and made major concessions to the union.), and who makes $29,000,000 a year salary alone [!], far and above what any rank-and-file auto worker makes, perhaps we should revisit Freud’s pensive and irritated, yet honest for its time, question, “What does a woman want?”  (Freud, who could be so iconoclastic on certain matters of sexuality, while simultaneously being a prisoner of then-prevalent societal Victorian sexual norms.)  This admitted cis male’s jaded answer is, “They want both the derivative perks of being on the pedestal as well as full equality with men, and the want them both at the same time.”  Yes, I say cynically, women want simultaneously to say to a man, “You’re a heel, and a louse” while dining in a fancy restaurant with that man she is berating, and with that man picking up the whole of the tab, plus tip, for both of them!  But this is not meant to be either anti-feminist or misogynist:  it’s just to point out one of the many contradictions of life and protest, such as what I experience as a worker in my workplace, where so many of my fellow work colleagues both resent management, yet long to become managers themselves!  Such is life; and such is one of the ironies—and ironing boards—of lived life.