Good Taste & Sensibility

Portrait of a Woman by Bartolomeo Veneto

The concept of good taste has been, over the years, suffering gradual erosion. The notion of sensibility has been victim of attempted assault. If by any chance, my dear reader, you fail to understand where this conversation is going; pray, do follow me to the brink of the abyss…

Feminists never cease to surprise me – they have come up with a project called “The Slutwalk”. Apparently, feminists have exhausted all the worthy causes to fight for (for instance, they pretend that: the problem of female genital excision has been eradicated; women are no longer victims of domestic violence and sexual submission; all women in the world have the right to vote and drive; all women finally achieved equal pay for equal job etc); and now it is imperative to reclaim the word “slut”. As we know, slut means an immoral, sexual promiscuous, slovenly woman; a prostitute and a dirty untidy female. So why would feminists want to claim back such epithets?

The so-called “slutwalk” was born, if you will, after a Canadian police constable stated that women should “avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised”.  Clearly, this is a stupid chauvinistic statement; cause Talibans execute Burka-wearing women for showing their wrists or bear-hands (which, according to them, constitutes a clear sexual incitement), and Iman Al-Obeidi wasn’t exactly wearing skimpy clothes when she was raped by Libyan troops. This being said, it is not a question of what a woman wears but a question of whether a man is a criminal animal or not.

Going back to our adorable feminine fighters: they get offended by the witless words of a police officer and yet they want to claim the right to be tarts, harlots, whores, hookers, wenches, Cyprians and trollops. I am not sure their approach makes much sense. I totally support rebutting thoughtless, disrespectful, statements made by people; but Feminists really need to re-think their strategies and the way they have been dealing with certain issues lest offering the impression that they are a bunch of immature, shallow and idle little women seeking for attention.

Pride Parades...

Whenever gays parade, every year, practically nude in the streets they do not appear to be proud of what they are at all; they seem to ignore the sense of dignity and they fail to conquer respect (as individuals).

I loathe homophobia, but hurting heterosexual susceptibilities is not the right way to combat it. 

All humans must never forget that with Rights come Duties: if gays want to be free, they must respect other people’s freedom; if they want heterosexuals to view them for whom they are and disregard their sexuality, then they shouldn’t flash it on their faces.

Gays have the right to practice their nature, they have the right to social benefits and civil rights, they have the right to be served and protected, but they do not have the right to aggress society with what should be kept in the privacy of their home. 

Humans often have to fight for behavioural evolution however anarchy must never prevail and, even in the battlefield there’s always room for a fair dose of good taste and sensibility.