The DumbTrend Experience? It’s almost offensive how many absurd complaints about things being offensive that we’re supposed to take seriously. I mean, we’ve heard of people wanting Civil War statues removed, but THIS??
A Civil War General of some note – a Union General, mind you – is honored with a statue near the Massachusetts statehouse. And there is an entrance to the building at that statue. The General’s name: Joseph Hooker. The entrance name is…
@RepDuBois/TwitterHere’s one of her tweets on the subject.
R U a “General Hooker”? Of course not! Yet the main entrance of the Mass State House says otherwise.#Metoo it’s not all about rape & harassment but also women’s dignity A “funny” double entendres misrepresented as respect for a long dead general?
— Michelle DuBois (@RepDuBois) March 14, 2018
1 Keep statue
2 Take sign down pic.twitter.com/3H67dRXAzN
Reason has the story:
She has been calling for the removal of a statehouse sign that reads “General Hooker Entrance” (so inscribed because it stands opposite a statue of General Hooker), which she described as an affront to “women’s dignity.”
“Female staffers don’t use that entrance because the sign is offensive to them,” DuBois told WBZ-TV this week.
If that isn’t the ultimate in futile, fainting-couch feminism, I’m not sure what is.
DuBois also complained that she had heard teen boys joke with teen girls that they were “general hookers” while using the door.
You really should read the whole thing.
This sort of absurd language policing goes well beyond the already fig-leaf social appeal behind the left’s pro-censorship movement and into genuine stupidity. Not to say other ideas aren’t equally stupid, but this incident begs you to yourself be actually stupid. And what’s more, to pass on stupidity as a treasured value to the next generation.
It’s funny, but it’s also seriously embarrassing. For all of us.