Steve Jobs: Cockblocking from the Grave

While watching “Dinosaur Train” with my son yesterday, I noticed that in a scene featuring more characters than usual, the background players were just kinda standing still and their mouths weren’t moving. It looked weird. Of course, I’m assuming that you’re not supposed to really take note of the weirdness; it’s just supposed to be background filler.

As I read this this morning, it occurred to me that thinking of women as background filler is a big component of misognyny. The remarkable thing about the linked meltdown is not its idiocy. It’s the idea that, any given moment, women should be “open” to a come on. This would be fine, but for one thing: it doesn’t take into account the fact that women are not background filler. They’re not standing  around  silent and motionless, waiting for the main characters (you know, MEN) to interact with them. Women are not characters in men’s lives. Nope. We are, in fact, main characters too. With our own lives, hopes, dreams, families, friends, hobbies, passions, and jobs. Oddly, I think that when some men learn this it enrages them. It’s why sci-fi lunatics like John C. Wright and Vox Day freak out when women are portrayed as anything other than helpmeets or whores. Because when you acknowledge that women are fully human with full lives, they cease to be supporting players in men’s lives.