Sunday, October 18, 2015

Humanists

I'm about to try and sound smart. Eh hemmmm.
I've read a couple interviews lately where the woman being interviewed says she is not a feminist because she considers herself to be a humanist.
Say what?
This reminds me of when someone replies, "All lives matter," to the slogan, "Black lives matter." It's dismissive, patronizing, and elitist.
First of all, humanism is not disjoint from feminism; a humanist is feminist, but a feminist is not necessarily a humanist. This information is just a quick Wikipedia page read away, but when someone is convinced they are philosophically enlightened, they forget that information is read rather than magically beamed into their brain through divine thought.

I imagine Anti-feminist Humanists hosting Saturday night salons. They uncork fine wine brought up from their wine cellar, and haughtily snort, refilling giant crystal glasses sparkling under the dim light in their mahogany entertaining room. As she adjusts her ascot, indicating she's ready to say something smart, all mumbling and quoting comes to a halt, and eyes lock in on her. Then she clears her throat, holds up her glass, and says, "We are smarter than all other people because we see all problems as one problem, only needing one solution. So bottoms up! Let's talk about what that solution should be!"
"Hear, hear!!" The crowd goes wild.

As a humanist, I don't care about that skeleton's problems, per se. I care about All our problems.
Ohhhh. That's nice.

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