One of the students sent me an article the other day and
while I nearly poked my eyes out with the vulgarity of the writing, the article
itself contained some valuable insights.
The article was entitled “The Case Against Female Self Esteem” and due
to the excessive crudeness not only within the article, but in the combox as
well, I am not going to post a link (you keeners can probably easily find it),
but I’ll give you the rundown. In
a nutshell the author listed reasons why strong and confident women are
repellant and unattractive. Women should be insecure – down with all this
self-esteem-building stuff – because insecurity is integral to femininity, it
leads to vulnerability and vulnerability is paramount within
relationships. So ladies, tell
your feminist ideals to shove off, you know that all this independence and
confidence is not for you. He
concludes with this quote: “There’s no
such thing as a strong, independent woman, only shrews pleading for taming.” Lets just say this dude is a
pot-stirrer, but rather than feel anger at his blatant and unflinching
stupidity, I was rather intrigued and pondered his arguments for several
days.
