Femme-Nazi

Mandy loves the TV show Smallville, have you seen it? A young Superman, with a really hot actor. So the other day when the movie Superman with Christopher Reeves came on we watched. Mandy had never seen it, weird the events of my life that are not a part of Mandy's life. Watching I noticed how Lois acted the whole movie and it reminded me of how most women were portrayed in TV and film back in those days. Annoying, dumb, weak and in desperate need of a savior. Pretty annoying.

Many of the TV shows popular today are the same, women are portrayed as being the stereotypical annoying bitch. Like Deborah in Everybody Love Raymond. I really hate her. How she is such a spoil sport, no fun, a real bitch. My family, I try to explain to them why there are shows I won't watch, Like Raymond. I don't care if it is funny or not, it just really makes me mad so I don't watch.

I remember back in the mid 90's, listening to Rush Limbaugh for the first and only time on the radio. I remember him referring to women like me as femme-Nazis. That's me a rabid femme-Nazi. I get really upset about these seemingly small details.

Mandy is taking an etiquette course at school right now. They believe it is important for our future kids to be aware of proper etiquette. This will help them in their business life. One aspect was that Mandy had to go to a formal dinner with her dad, all dressed up. And Mandy had to properly introduce him to her friends, teacher and to a high ranking base official ( in years past it was a general, but not this year). The next day she had to perform various tasks, and I had to sign a paper saying that she had done the tasks. Tasks like setting the table.

The thing that bothered me was that in this etiquette course they gave specific instructions as to how girls should act and how boys should act. It really bothered me. Would it be ok for them to say, all the black children your etiquette is this, and all the white children your etiquette is this... Then on this worksheet where I have to initial that Mandy did her tasks they asked me to give comments. It was actually worth 4 points for me to give comments. I really wanted to give some femme-Nazi comments. How dare they teach my daughter her proper place. How dare they suggest that in a business setting she should behave differently than the men because, what she doesn't have a penis. So mad.

Mandy told me to get over it. She said that it is important for her to know this crap. What if she is on a job interview and she started going off about feminism crap, would she get the job? So I wrote in the comments section

Mandy appears to know more about etiquette than me.

To be honest, the reason I don't work is by enlarge due to the fact that all of my working experience has been up until this point so completely nerve grating due to sexism that I cannot function in my role as wife and mother. I come home so pissed off that I just don't shift well into being a nurturing type person. Now, not working being a wife I am treated so well by everyone. I love it. I know that it is in and of itself disrespectful to be nice to me the non-working Marsha and be mean to the working Marsha, but I like the nice. Someday I will re-enter the work force and be treated again like a dog. My ideas will be dismissed while penis boy will be treated with respect. I will do my best to change the hearts and minds of the penis boys about how smart and competent women are, and hopefully improve the quality of work place treatment so that when my girls enter the work force they will be treated better. But, for now I am enjoying the break from the battle of the sexes.

Mandy's etiquette lessons only show how far we still have to go. So mad.