I dislike it when people justify their actions to their lack of intelligence. Especially women. Men are generally more self conscious about their image but too many women in today's time still want to be seen as "weak". My definition of stupid is lazy. No, you're not too dumb to understand this, you're just too lazy to use your brain. There is a fundamental difference. I don't understand what people get out out of this, probably just someone else sorting out your problems for you. But maybe it's just the control freak within me talking, I don't find this appealing at all. How could someone else know what's best for you? Might as well give up your right to an education, to vote, to be employed too. It's not like you value them at all. Going back to the ideal life of staying home and looking after the kids seem to be what they're looking for. But then, it's not. They want to have an education (what is the point when you're "dumb" anyway?) they want to be paid, they want to vote. But more importantly, I guess they also want some guy to chuck his credit card at her and say "Well darling, I sincerely believe that you are a free and intelligent women, but my love for you is so great that I want to pay for all your expenses. Put it on the credit card, buy all the Vuitton and Dior that you want. It's ok, because you're still an intelligent woman, people will still respect you." Yeah Right. That was pretty much a Tui ad. If some guy is actually saying that to you, he's lying. Inside his head, you're just an ornament. You know why? Because even you yourself have convinced yourself that you're stupid.
It's also shameful how we allow these people to get away with it. A girl looks at you innocently, shrugs and says she doesn't understand. And as the knight in shining armour, of course you run to her aid and solve all her problems for her. You feel proud, she feels happy. The world is perfect, right? But why do we just accept that she is really stupid? Why don't we challenge her? Why is it that when children tell us that they don't get it, we challenge them to think and solve the problem for themselves, we don't do the same to women? Maybe we want women to behave that way (Scandel)? Being no feminist myself - in fact, I'm almost anti-feminist - this behaviour still affects me. Just because I don't believe that women and men are really equal doesn't mean that I believe women are inferior. Biologically, men are better than women at certain things. Biologically, some people are smarter than others. However, that does not mean that those who are less endowed with the blessing of intelligence should use that as an excuse to be "spoiled" but men and to not take responsibility for anything that they do. They should, to the contrary, spend more time to try and understand things, to be able to carry on an intelligent conversion, to prove to the world that you actually deserve respect.
People who believe that the world should be kinder to them because they are no intelligent should get a kick up the ass by society.
