Thinking About “Girl Power”

Your Personality is Somewhat Rare (ISFP)

Your personality type is caring, peaceful, artistic, and calm.

Only about 7% of all people have your personality, including 8% of all women and 6% of all men
You are Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, and Perceiving.

How Rare Is Your Personality?

Interesting personality thing.

Anyway, onto what I’m really thinking.  I’ve been seeing advertisments for that movie, ‘Gracie,’ that’s either out in theaters now, or will be soon.  It seems, from the ads, to be the normal type of ‘girl overcoming adversity and prejudice’ kind of slop that’s still coming out once in awhile and still being celebrated.  What I want to know is why?

Why is slop like that still being celebrated, instead of just something that’s considered everyday?  This isn’t the 1950’s, girls aren’t the little weaklings that people have assumed they are for so long.  Hell, feminists alone have pretty much forced the female gender forward so that movies like that should be obsolete.

I don’t understand why there are still things coming out that have others trying to smash females under pressure.  The stereotypical attitude that we’ve come no further than treating women as objects not fit to do anything but clean house and raise babies is something that should be seen as antiquated, instead of a still modern thing that continually happens.

More and more I’m realizing that all the stereotypes and prejudices in the world are literally encouraged by those being prejudiced against.  Yeah, there are plenty of strong-willed, fully able women in the world.  But there are also a good number of women who are petty, manipulative, shallow, moochers who just want to snag a rich man to marry because they have no qualifications to maintain a house or contribute anything worthwhile to the work force.

There are so many others, as well.  This doesn’t exactly give an example, but it’s another point of annoyance to me.  Not too long ago, Rob picked up A Time To Kill.  For those not familiar with the plot, it’s set in the south, though I’m not sure what time period.  It could be modern, it could be 1940’s, ’50’s, or ’60’s.  Cuz there is stuff about the KKK in there, though I’m not sure if it’s when the KKK was initially created, or if they’re attemtping some kind of revival.  Anyway, this black man’s daughter, she’s about ten years old, is walking back from having picked up groceries for her family when these two white men, frankly scum but from prominent families, drive by and pick her up.  They rape her, beat her, and then drop her from a bridge into a river and leave her to die.  She survives, though, and tells who did that to her.  The men are arrested and before they can even be brought to trial, the girl’s father grabs some kind of gun, (not sure what, but it was definitely a nasty one,) and he shot and killed those two men in cold blood, completely premeditated, and with a sound mind.

They obviously arrest the father and the rest of the movie is about the trial and how it progresses, along with the things that happen to the lawyer who’s defending the father.

The thing that pisses me off about the movie is the fact that the entire trial is basically paraded out in an almost circus-like fashion.  The father gets off, despite every single person in that courtroom, all the jury, the audience, and the judge, knowing that the father killed those men in a completely premeditated, cold-blooded, revenge-bent fashion.  The entire thing is made to be about black rights and all that.  If he gets off, then it’s a monumental move forward for black people.  And I think that’s ridiculous.  Black, white, red, purple, he killed two men.  Admittedly, two men who nearly killed his daughter, left her for dead, and destroyed her ability to have children of her own because of how much they f*cked her.  But even so, even circumstances as terrible as that do not give someone else the right to take, moreso even than law, but life and death, into their own hands.  Perhaps those two men deserved to die, but they did not deserve to have their lives cut so horribly short by a father bent on revenge.

Now, let me also make my stance clear.  The two men in that movie who did all that to the daughter were disgusting wastes of human life and the daughter by no means deserved to have everything happen to her that did.  No one deserves that kind of physical, sexual, and emotional horror placed upon them, especially at so young an age.

Yet to turn what should have been strictly a murder trial into a seperation of how blacks are treated as opposed to whites is absolutely ridiculous and a mockery of what the law system is supoosed to represent.  The man committed murder and should have been punished for the fact, instead of being declared not guilty.  You know what that says to me?  That there are circumstances, (outside of war,) when it’s okay to kill people.

I know there’s more to this rant, but I’m gonna leave off here.  TV and books are calling.