Maybe we should have gone out in a blaze of glory by having a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. At least it would have been over with quickly, and it would have spared us the degradation of watching moonbattery rot our country to death.
Behold American womanhood under the influence of moonbattery. Sorry about the characteristic obscenity:
The fall of the West. https://t.co/ZpHoJd9EQ3
— Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) December 20, 2020
Hat tip: Not the Bee.
“Equality” is often used to euphemize identity politics favoritism. This becomes problematic when people take the concept too literally. Business Insider provides an example:
Paris authorities on Tuesday were fined $110,000 for employing too many women in senior positions in 2018.
The authorities put 11 women and five men in senior positions in 2018, meaning that nearly 70% of the appointments went to women. This breached a national law on gender parity.
The “Sauvadet law,” repealed in 2019, said no more than 60% of appointments at senior levels should go to one gender.
Mayor Anne Hidalgo has denounced the fine as absurd and unfair, not because people should be appointed based on more meaningful qualifications than gender, but because too much discrimination against men is still not enough.
Barks Hidalgo:
“We must promote women with determination and vigor because the gap everywhere in France is still very large. So yes, in order to achieve parity one day, it is necessary to speed up the tempo and make sure that in the nominations there are more women than men.”
Gender parity will not be achieved until all positions are held by women, just as racial parity will not be achieved until all positions are held by nonwhites.
On a tip from Bluto.
Every aspect of society has become saturated with belligerent wokeness. Yet immersion in moonbattery could become more suffocating still. Progressives will not rest until the whole country is as centered on their ideology as Hotel Zena, which caters noisily to angry feminists — or as Architectural Digest put it last week, “celebrates female empowerment”:
When it opens this week, the new Hotel Zena in Washington, D.C., will make a powerful statement about powerful women. The groundbreaking hotel, part of the Viceroy Hotels & Resorts, has commissioned more than 60 works of art that celebrate female empowerment. Even before they step inside, guests will be greeted by colorful, seven-story-tall murals on the building’s façade, depicting enormous female warriors who keep watch over the hotel and its surrounding Logan Circle neighborhood.
The female warriors are racially and culturally correct:
The Hotel Zena opens this week with more than 60 artworks highlighting the achievements of women. https://t.co/5v5aYlaZLD pic.twitter.com/5CZdWF9OeA
— House & Garden SA (@HouseGardenSA) October 11, 2020
“Zena” must come from “Xena the Warrior Princess.”
In the hotel lobby, a dramatic portrait gallery honors 11 women who’ve led the fight for gender equality, including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Rep. Shirley Chisholm—the first Black woman elected to Congress.
Other featured fanatics include teenage envirofascist Greta Thunberg and zillionaire oppressed person Oprah Winfrey. Even the cocktails served in the hotel bar are named after feminists.
The RBG portrait was created out of 20,000 hand-painted tampons. Seriously:
When it opens, the new Hotel Zena in Washington, D.C., will make a powerful statement about powerful women. https://t.co/TDD7GxwUCR
— Architectural Digest (@ArchDigest) October 13, 2020
It’s as if they think self-ridicule is a club that they can use to bash everyone into submission.
On a tip from Kate P. Hat tip: Ace of Spades.