Misogyny?

Misogyny?

 

OK, so it’s another unpopular one, but here the Zeitguy out.

 

A few days ago I was all like “what misogyny? Nah, get out of town that’s not zeiguyst and if it is you can dress me in a pair of bell bottoms and call me wizard.”

 

Well I wish it could be Christmas everyday, because this zeiguyst is a gift. It all kicked off when maverick film director (Weddings and Funerals, The Hairy Potter) and Luton Town FC manager Mike Newell had this to say after his rubbish football team lost some goals of football.

 

"She [assistant referee Amy Rayner] should not be here. I know that sounds sexist, but I am sexist, so I am not going to be anything other than that.

 

"We have a problem in this country with political correctness, and bringing women into the game is not the way to improve refereeing and officialdom. It is beyond belief. When do we reach a stage when all officials are women, because then we are in trouble. It is bad enough with the incapable referees and linesmen we have, but if you start bringing in women, you have big problems. This is Championship football. It is not park football, so what are women doing here?"

 

“Holy Shit that man’s a cunt!” I thought to myself. “I wish I could make him eat MY goal.” My goal to achieve equality among the sexes, that is. I was all ready to post on how misogyny is totally not ZG and how equality is. I had most of the most written I had just left gaps to put in quotes to how people had reacted badly. But none came. Well apart from Zoe Williams and the problem with Zoe Williams is that if she writes an article saying how angry she is about something you can’t help but feel it was worth it in some way.) So, I was left think that maybe more than one person felt that way about women. Could misogyny be zeiguyst? I fear it might be.

 

Let’s look at the pros and cons of women.

 

Pros*

 

They look good. Even the ones that don’t are still better looking than men

They’re better at a lot of stuff than men

They commit fewer crimes than men

They don’t poo.

 

Cons

 

They like Sex & The City

They threaten us

They can sometimes smell ‘down there,’ but then hey, so can we fellas

 

 

Interesting discovery. And did you spot the con that wasn’t a con. No, not the smell thing, that’s your own perversion. It was the fact that they threaten us. That’s not a con you fool, that’s your own insecurity. Yep, that’s right. Newell doesn’t hate women, he’s fucking petrified of them. Their common sense, good looks, ability to bare children (and also arms), the fact that they might laugh at his willy.

 

Now, I’m not a stickler for protocol, but I HAVE DISTINCTLY POINT OUT TIME AFTER TIME that zeitguyst means stuff that is really hot right now at this moment in time. Misogyny is actually an age old tradition invented when men made women change their name in marriage. “Oh but someone’s gotta Shal! Why not yaow?”) and leading right but to Mike Newell’s outburst. It’s not zeitguyst because zeitguyst is based on what people think, not what men think.

 

Sorry guys, you’re just gonna have to find a minority group you can all agree to hate. Maybe footballers?

 

 

 

 

*(he he, I don’t mean prostitutes, but if you thought I did you’re probably misogynist and should go and see a doctor, ideally an woman, doctor – conquer your fears)