26. Daddy – Jewel 1995

 You know, sometimes I want to rip out your throat, Daddy

For all those things you said that were mean

Gonna make you just as vulnerable as I was, Daddy

What’s that say about me?

 

Dads love their daughters. There’s generally no debating that. However, they also objectify women. This may explain why they are so protective of their daughters (see Post 14 and Post 17), because they know what they themselves are capable of, never mind other men.

Worse still. Maybe they remember what they did to girls when they were boys.

As stated in reference to our illustrious leader, @ScomoAnnounces, in Post 21, it’s time for men to stop thinking of the women they care about as being separate or different to those they don’t care about. Of course they care about their women, or at least should care about them, but that doesn’t make their women different to the other 49.6% of the world population that is female, or the 50.2% of the Australian population that is female. After all, every woman and girl is someone’s daughter. Furthermore, every woman and girl has the right to expect basic respect from the community she lives in.

While I’m pulling out the stats, let’s look at the latest gender indicators to come out of the Australian Bureau of Statistics. As of December 2020:

 

• women’s full time adult average weekly earnings were 86% that of men
• women are five times more likely to be victims of sexual assault than men
• for the first time, there was equal representation between men and women parliamentarians in the Senate. 

So, with these findings in mind, why are males specifically, and parents and society in general, still needing adverts like this to point out how their actions impact on society’s raising of both girls and boys?!?! This reminds me of the @Hannahgadsby interview discussed in Post 8.

While parents, and society, may think that they’re protecting your daughters from what you know guys are capable of, while allowing sons to be boys being boys, as mentioned in Post 17, chicks pick up on this shit from a very young age. So don’t kid yourself that they don’t know the reality of the world. We don’t even need the Australian Bureau of Statistics to point out the obvious to us – less earnings, more likely to experience domestic violence, some career pathways apparently closed to us, all this despite being half the population and generally being higher educated.

This whole situation seems vaguely familiar to me . . . that’s right, the dowry system and the legal term of destitute widow that is still in use in many countries.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nD5hpoFI-4