Women's Rights and the Submissive Wife

Statement: Dear (Insert name here) you just set back the women’s rights movement 100 years.  Great job you blankety blankety blank.

What this means:

1: I’m a mean girl who has decided to pick on someone because everyone else is.

Or, possibly

2. You have chosen a lifestyle that shares many characteristics with a time in which women weren’t treated well and didn’t have many choices.  A lot of people made a lot of sacrifices so that things aren’t like that any more. For you to choose it makes it seem like their efforts were in vain. Also, you are condoning such a lifestyle.  You are saying that it is okay.  Which isn’t too far from all of society and lots of men thinking it’s okay.  Which isn’t too far from us being back where we were and we don’t want that.  And the thought of having to live that life or having people look down on me for not is very scary. Also, I place a great deal of value on my independence and my career. For you to not value yours feels a lot like a smack in my face and getting smacked makes me angry.  

Multiculturalism: Don't sing my song.

Statement: I didn’t like that commercial.  There were people singing in different languages.

What this means:

1. I’m a racist @SShole.

Or, possibly,

2.  We are becoming one culture. This is scary for me.  Not so much because I don’t like any other culture, but because it seems like if I am Caucasian I am not allowed to dislike any other part of any other culture or any person of any other race or culture without being called lots of names and having everything I say or do after that completely discounted.  At the same time, though, I don’t feel like I’m getting to keep the things, or be proud of the things, that make MY culture unique.  So I feel like I’m being put in an unfair situation.  This makes me angry.  And, as language is one of the primary identifiers of a different culture, I’m going to key in on that.