They're the ones who seek power, and powerfully oppress others. The men with energy to spare, a relentless search for self-serving opportunities to further enhance their positions of strength, of empowerment, of governorship over others. Whether through wealth or political position, they seek the personal egotistical fulfillment of exercising power.
And the likeliest subject of power, either social or political just happens to be the opposite gender. Women are themselves not entirely immune to the enticements of power, willingly allying themselves to men toward whom the only compelling attachment is the power they possess. Truth to tell, it isn't just powerful men who manipulate and use women, is it?
Society as a whole has a tendency to do that, to objectify women, to generalize, to symbolically recognize them as the parts of their whole, their entirety of no significance, only their sexual promise. From the oppressive manipulation of young girls, enticing and sometimes forcing them into prostitution, to the pornography trade for whom all females, irrespective of age, from infants to women, are fair game.
Respected and admired pillars of society, representing every profession imaginable; politicians, lawyers, physicians, engineers, labourers, clerks, dock workers, share an obsession in common; the lure of sex for money. They prowl night-time avenues for the seduction of the night. Paid for but a conquest for all of that. Paid for and therefore no chance of being spurned, nor refused for twisted sex.
Women's rights activists have succeeded in shaming advertisers and public relations companies and corporations into a cessation of using the female body to sell things. Newspapers that publish daily shots of barely-clothed women have a stench of rubbish-publishing about them; they're tabloids of uncertain value in the news they purvey.
Men like France's Nicholas Sarkozy, hyper-energized, self-absorbed, ambitious and capable, select from an array of available beauties. Men like Italy's Silvio Berlusconi know no shame in their unbridled admiration for the female form, reflective of the Latin propensity to baldly and oafishly present themselves for available stud-work.
And the respectably reliable news media go out of their way to relinquish their position as staid and impartial purveyors of the news of the world and community, to highlight time and again the undeniable beauty and physical lushness of particular women of the world of celebrities. No one really wants to see demure photographs of brightly intelligent, accomplished women on the world stage.
In a man's world.
Labels: Life's Like That, Sexism, Traditions
