The Backlash! - March 1996

Play Misty's for me

Finding a higher humanity

by Aaron Mitchner

Copyright 1996 by Aaron Mitchner

On Saturday I went to Misty's, an upscale club at the Red Lion not far from Microsoft’s Redmond Corporate campus, to meet a friend.

I didn't want to stay in line, so I went to the front of the line and watched for 20 minutes as about 200 women walked out of the disco to go to the bathroom. All 200 walked past me without even checking me or any other man out. There couldn't have been anything about me that would have turned them off because the eyes didn't register me nor any man at all as a separate individual or human being.

I stopped the 2 most sexually attractive looking to inquire if my friend was in there (I said he was 6'7" with a rugby shirt). The two stopped to answer with a polite but firm "No, I haven't seen him," but they were like robots who quickly turned away to go back in to sit with their girlfriends and be dizzy.

The girlfriend of one of those women even pulled her friend to try to stop her from even answering my question at all. Her expression was that of "Can't you see he is trying to pick you up? Ignore him completely. Don't encourage these criminal men by recognizing their existance."

As a matter of fact, I was trying to meet them and there was no friend with a rugby shirt, but they had no moral right to disbelieve me and there is absolutely nothing wrong with trying to meet someone anyway. As I ate dinner in the restaurant upstairs I was relieved to notice the most attractive woman come up with her friends and they said things to each other which indicated she was not management material in the corporate world and I could at least write the evening at Misty's off to exposure to another (incompatible) socioeconomic class.

Still it worries me that even well educated women go to bars and treat male strangers like they are not human.

Victim-feminist apologists would say that the attractive women simply cannot smile and say hi to a male stranger at a disco or bar because that might encourage "trouble." But doesn't succumbing to this mentality reduce the women at discos and bars to second class human status. Isn't it time the media recognized that the propensity of men to say hi to female strangers in public is a sign of a higher, not a lesser humanity than any passive or paranoid behaviour taught them by the victim feminists?


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