August 20, 2005

Insensitivity Training

In light of my recent tirades about the emasculation of men of my generation by culture I found a recent conversation with Jodi pretty irritating in its content. She had just arrived home from a training at work that was holding a sensitivity training. The particular video to which she was exposed showed 3 vignettes of the same man in the same setting telling 3 different women the same thing, "I like your sweater. It looks nice on you." One woman smiled and thanked him. One woman just looked at him sourly and walked away. The third woman just nodded and moved on. And the moral of the story is..."That is an inappropriate conversation at work." Jodi said the guy's statements were all 3 with purity of intention and benign from sexual overtones. So, in light of the big joke I think we've made of men in our culture I'm advocating for...INSENSIVITY TRAINING for women. It's only fair, after all, in the gender-equality world of the feminists. If men must endure sensitivity training then women should endure insensitivity training. Insensitivity training would teach women to just accept things a little more benignly and without emotional entanglements that are self-inflicted. I mean, damn! If we're going to feminize men by such nonsense paradigms then in all sense of order and balance to gender it's only natural that we masculize women.

Good grief. This is ridiculous!

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