The New York Times, fresh from beclowning itself over the weekend with a shameless (and journalistically indefensible) partisan attack on Brett Kavanaugh, gave further evidence today that the once-respected paper is truly in the toilet: a “woke” piece about the oppression of women by — I am not making this up — the “poo-triarchy”. Here’s the “head”-line:
We read:
Poop shame is real — and it disproportionately affects women, who suffer from higher rates of irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease. In other words, the patriarchy has seeped into women’s intestinal tracts. Let’s call it the pootriarchy.
Girls aren’t born with poo shame — it’s something they’re taught.
“Taught”? Well, not by me, though as a cisgendered white male I’m sure my protestations will fall on deaf ears. I swear, though: I seriously can’t remember the topic ever even coming up at any of our weekly Patriarchs planning sessions; we’re usually way too busy figuring out new ways to keep women’s salaries down below that 77% mark, discussing techniques for interrupting them at business-meetings, strategizing about making sure they doubt their aptitude for math and science, researching methods for crushing their self-esteem, etc.
Meanwhile, what’s with this picture accompanying the article?
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What IS up with that illustration? Going from right to left, that lady just has her shoes off, which is pretty gross for a bathroom floor, empty stall, a man presumably, and some sort of team effort on the far left. I don’t want to sound ignorant but what the hell is going on there?
Gender confusion? Two in one stall with one open?
Empty stall? Easy. That’s where the poo-shamed female would be sitting if she weren’t being poo-shamed.
Jeffery Hodges
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Also, the toilet-paper roll is turned the wrong way around.
Jeffery Hodges
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Forget 2 Girls one cup, 2 Girls 1 Toilet Bowl…