Feminism | Posted by Maria on 09/28/2009
Woman on Woman Crime
Women beware. I have seen the face of the enemy and she is us.
Allow me to introduce you to the Queen Bee and the Female Chauvinist Pig. If you haven’t already met, trust me, you will.
you think differently than me? rawwwwwwr i cut you!
The Queen Bee: She’s the woman who has succeeded. She is queen of her domain. Man has no mastery over her. She stands as a testament to the ideals of feminism; that a woman can be boss and do it just as well if not better than a man. And she will KILL any woman who tries to do the same anywhere near her. Think Highlander: there can be only one.
I’ve been employed by these women and fired by them unfailingly. You cannot have a better idea than her. You cannot have an idea before she does. In fact, you’d better stop thinking right now and get comfortable looking small and unthreatening. If you’re younger than the Queen Bee, she’ll make your life Hell for existing; doubly so if there are any male coworkers. If you’re older than the Queen Bee and have an education level equal to or higher than her, ditto. These women are on power trips and nothing will stop them. Queen Bees are frequently found in the public school system, working as principles and English teachers. If you’re a smart student, it also sucks rocks to be in their class.
Female Chauvinist Pig T-shirt. Charming.
Female Chauvinist Pigs declare that raunchy is the same thing as liberated. They will tell you to go on Girls Gone Wild; that any consequences are because the world doesn’t respect women and their sexuality. They believe that showing disproportionately large breasted girls in bikinis jumping on trampolines to the cheering of lascivious, testosterone poisoned men – The Man Show, I’m looking at you – doesn’t objectify women but empowers them. These women subscribe to the belief that to succeed, you must become the stereotypical man.
...empowering...? (The Man Show)
The Female Chauvinist Pig frequently succeeds in her chosen profession. She’s found most often in entertainment because, let’s be honest, sex sells and it sells well. But while some women hail her as a savior of the gender, and ‘the average man’ proclaims that she ‘gets it,’ she will turn on you in a heartbeat if you dare to suggest that women can be professionally competent and sexually secure without taking classes in stripper etiquette. And let me tell you a secret, female to female; men laugh at these women who think they can grow a dick and be one of the boys. Where is the respect or equality in that?
These women hide under the guise of feminism while they contort and abuse their gender for power. They embody the demonized feminist, touted by conservatives, religious zealots, and everyone who is afraid or disgusted by a woman in charge of her own life. They prove men right when they say that women are unable to hold power in society and give them something to laugh at us over. They make our lives harder while telling us they are our friends. They tear our ideals, hopes and aspirations to shreds when they think no one is looking. But I am looking and you should too.
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toongrrl @ at 1:04 pm, September 28th, 2009
“The Man Show” always seemed to reek of douchebaggery
Steph @ at 1:41 pm, September 28th, 2009
Excellent post, Maria – really like it!
Amanda @ at 2:19 pm, September 28th, 2009
I think that these stereotypes – because that’s what they are – are just as harmful as the “crimes” themselves.
They are the enemy? This post is the enemy. It’s true that therea are agressive people, but is it really always a gender issue? Why must we canabalize ourselves? And really, English teachers?
Just because you’re a feminist doesn’t give you free rain to attack other women whose points of views and attitudes you disagree with.
Amy CT @ at 3:33 pm, September 28th, 2009
“They tear our ideals, hopes and aspirations to shreds when they think no one is looking. But I am looking and you should too.”
So, so true…
(By the way, I just interviewed Julie for Mookychick – http://www.mookychick.co.uk/interviews/feminist-fbomb.php)
xxx
Amy CT @ at 3:35 pm, September 28th, 2009
Woops.
Obviously, the kink is http://www.mookychick.co.uk/interviews/feminist-fbomb.php – sans brackets…
Maria D @ at 5:38 pm, September 28th, 2009
Amanda – it becomes a gender issue when they identify themselves as feminism and say that their actions are supported by feminist ideology. It is a gender issue when a female elementary school principle will not allow another female teacher time off after she had a STROKE but allows a male teacher free time to play golf with her.
I have nothing against being aggressive in a chosen field of profession. I have nothing against people having differing opinions than mine. I work on a newspaper and deal with aggression and differing opinions ALL the TIME among my peers and none of us step on each others toes. I am AGAINST those opinions and the aggression when they result in people being hurt and/or losing their jobs for reasons that have nothing to do with their ability to DO that job. And I criticize men of the same thing when I see it in them.
And the English teacher remark was a little mocking fun at my own first experience with them. None of the girls in that class got anything above a C. The teacher was eventually fired, but it didn’t change anyone’s grade.
Just because you’ve been lucky enough not to cross paths with women like this, don’t try to belittle my, or anyone else’s experience with them. Watch “Working Girl” with Melanie Griffith and tell me that Sigourney Weavers’ character is not malicious and worthy of contempt or that that type of woman is limited to entertainment.
Brooke @ at 11:10 pm, September 28th, 2009
Just because some women are bitches doesn’t mean that should be blamed on gender or that those women shouldn’t be called feminist.
Maria D @ at 1:41 pm, September 30th, 2009
Okay, there is a difference between being a bitch and being one of the women listed above.
I am being a bitch in this blog. You are being bitches in the comments. I am being a bitch when I point out to Amanda that it’s spelled ‘rein’ not ‘rain.’ You are being bitches when you say I’m wrong for being bitchy about women who have been WORSE than bitches to me and others.
Being a bitch is annoying, rude, mean spirited, and pisses people off. Bitches ruin your day, not your life.
And why CAN’T we blame it on gender with women? We blame it on gender with men all the time. And it IS a gender issue when they only target other women.
And if any of you are smart enough to make it to college, take a women’s studies class. These are well documented personality types among women; not a case of just being bitches.
So one more time class. ‘Bitches ruin your day, not your life.’
This PSA has been brought to you by the Wicked Bitch of West Baltimore.
Luce @ at 5:35 pm, September 30th, 2009
Female Chauvinistic Pig: *coughcoughmeganfoxcoughcough*
I like this blog, by the way.
Mara @ at 11:29 pm, October 13th, 2009
In all fairness, Kathleen Hanna, Riot Grrl goddess and singer for the amazing feminist punk band Bikini Kill did stripping/exotic dancing/burlesque/whatever you want to call it when she was in college to make ends meet… and she went on to become one of the most influential and inspirational feminist voices of the 1990s. She is hardly a female chauvinist pig. There’s nothing wrong with being a stripper: it’s surely a tough job and not always fun, but doing it to put food on the table doesn’t make the stripper a bad person, it just shows how our misogynistic society sometimes forces women to sell themselves if they want to live. Don’t blame the stripper; blame the patriarchy!
Maria D @ at 9:58 pm, October 18th, 2009
@Mara Oh I agree!!!
Going over this, I realize that I probably wasn’t as concise as I could’ve been. Serves me right for trying to adhere to a word count I’d already passed.
For the Queen Bee’s, I know business women who are everything you’d hope for; competent, in control, and happy to be mentors to other young professionals, gender irregardless.
I also know a women who I looked up to a great deal when I was in high school and she also had to support herself as a stripper for a few years. I don’t have any issue with that. However, I also met a few older women in my womens studies class over the summer who had followed that philosophy of “it has nothing to do with patriarchal society! just let it all out” and came to regret it. Not because of the actions, but because of the naivety that philosophy burdens you with.
Petra @ at 3:10 pm, November 15th, 2009
I don’t understand why Maria doesn’t credit Ariel Levy for her Blog entry. I think it’s great to talk about the question of the “female chauvenist pig” but you can’t quote Levy without crediting her. Or you discredit yourself!
Thanks for posting this comment.
blakerivers @ at 4:13 pm, September 6th, 2010
The Man Show should make women and men alike want to vomit sometimes.
I very much agree with the author of this post. I think that female chauvinist pigs are often times truly feminist and do a lot of good toward the cause of feminism. However, they also can do even more harm than good, so it’s not a philosophy to aspire to.
@Amanda, it’s not about attacking people, it’s about honestly criticizing behaviors and attitudes that deserve criticism.
Christina @ at 4:04 am, May 22nd, 2011
First off. There are these kinds of women. There are bitchy women who use their bodies and power to get what they want and that is not feminist. Sorry. Just like these incredibly smart and brave women before me stated, female on female crime is real so get over yourself. Selling your body or objectifying it vs sexual liberation are hugley different things. Obviously there are female chauvinisrltic pigs right here who fall into this personality and are defending it naively. “Feminists” need to open the discussion and to the possibility that women are also hurting the movement by calling themselves feminists yet objectifying themselves or exploiting themself for the male gaze or power. Yah, there are sluts. It annoys me when feminists totally reject this notion of a woman who uses her body to get what she wants or who sleeps with married/taken men but thats a whole other topic…The point is…Feminism was never constructed to use as an excuse for tossing away your self respect or doing anything you want including degrading other women to get what you want. Do what you can to survive but accept the fact that if you doend up selling your body as a stripper etc you are not selling it to a pro woman industry. Girl on girl crime is real, even buying into the whole “strippers are sexually liberated” bullshit needs to stop. Im babbling but women who call themselves feminists so they can act like sluts or bitches needs to stop. Feminism is about helping other women not acting like a soulless bitch to gain respect.