A Man’s Reply Without Apology

From time-to-time I read an article that is so absurd that I cannot help but feel the writers of it live in a fantasy world where life is either much better or worse than it really is. In the article of “Indigenous Feminism Without Apology,” a very angry woman, Andrea Smith, rants about the fanatical Christian Right as if it was the controlling power of all decisions in the United States. By looking at the most extreme cases of bigotry and close-mindedness, Smith paints a nightmarish picture of a country controlled by the white church where every non-white lives in poverty under the lash of the elite white class who controls everything.

While it is true that there are problems, it is not as bad as Andrea Smith claims. Her article is posted on an extremist website that makes it sound like we live in a Fascist society. Like a paranoid scitzofrantic who thinks "the man" is out to get them, they conspire to survive in a country that is not as closed minded and racist as they like to pretend it is.

I see no reason to give this article any more of my attention. If life really was this one-sided, then I, a white, blond haired, blue eyed, man, would need a monocle and a really twisty mustache that I could twiddle as I schemed my next diabolical act against women and brown people.