BEWARE LECH...
I was really satisfied with what I'd decided to write on a sticker to label the lech. I wanted to say "Don't mess with the women, useless wanker", 'I'm watching you, so beware, you revolting idiot"; I thought all this was expressed perfectly in the BEWARE LECH... sticker that I posted on the back of his high viz. He'd pinched her bottom as he walked passed, she's a pretty blonde Polish woman. It was disturbing, very disturbing and I'm quite sure they're not lovers.
"Aren't you annoyed by that?" I asked her after we'd exchanged looks of disgust, "you could report that?", "oh no, it's OK" she said. But it wasn't OK with me, so he got it. I finally reacted to all the wrath that had built up over the years, all the times I'd allowed myself to be flattered by leery male attention, me and all the women on the planet who let their self worth be judged by male attention. So lech in the warehouse got it from me, I imagined him castrated there and then by the machinery of the line that carries the books around the warehouse - that his penis would get trapped and ripped off his body - he and all lecherous dick heads, they deserve it, it would be the beginning of the real sexual revolution, where men and women in all the imaginable variations of these stereotypes would just respect each other on equal terms ...
I'm angry at how women are objectified in this society, and mostly I'm angry about how women are so complicit, it's wrong, this is a sickness in society, there needs to be a clean up. I watched a brilliant vampire/superhero film recently called A Girl Walks Home Alone in the Night in which
a young woman wanders the streets of bad city and cleans up the place, eradicates bad men, she kills them by sucking the life blood and leaving them dead, to me the film fits in to the superhero genre, great film, I loved it, some reviews regarded it as comic but in my opinion that's shallow and probably written by a dickhead, I found the film deeply satisfying. But of course it's only fiction.
Feminist writers are saying we are currently in the fourth or fifth wave of feminism, they can't seem to define these waves, they blur into one another, the point is that feminism gains momentum and then crashes, over and over again, without any real impact. What society needs is a feminist tsunami. We need a catastrophic shake-up that will override this deeply entrenched misogyny once and for all and create level a playing field , where there is real gender equality; putting a sticker on someone's high viz in the warehouse isn't going to have much impact on the master plan, but I reacted, and women, all of you, please let's try, allow yourselves to envision a society that values female productivity as well as its form.
NB This post has certainly been inspired by a book I've read recently, it was one of those books that as soon as I'd reached the last page I went back to the beginning and read it all over again, just to make sure I got it OUTDATED why dating is ruining you love life by Samhita Mukhopadhyay ISBN 9781580053327.
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