
It’s 2050 and feminism has finally won. Women make up more than 80% of serial killers and serial killer-related entertainment shows. Everyone agrees that Harper Lee wrote In Cold Blood under Truman Capote’s name as a favor before beating Ernest Hemingway in Greco-Roman-style wrestling. Sex is just when two or more women take the mathematics portion of the SAT together and kick a businessman’s teeth in. It’s 2050 and Bob Dylan was never even born.
It’s 2050, and do you know what science is now? The 1996 movie about teen witches, The Craft. It’s the feminist future, and women are the ones who sit with their knees sprawled out on the subway. Men have to sit on the floor, and if a woman tells them to lick the pole, they have to do it, because Kamala Harris is the eternal Goddess-King of America now. It’s 2050 and January Jones keeps the bones of Bill Murray in a golden cage and it’s illegal to watch or quote Caddyshack. This is what feminism is now.
It’s 2050 and Nick Offerman has to wear a bridle and allow any woman who asks to ride him across the Mississippi instead of taking a bridge. This is what happens when the feminists win. No one has ever even heard of Steely Dan.
It’s 2050, and women swagger down the street, many of them ten feet tall, draped in construction vests and catcalling the men who scurry from hiding place to hiding place during the daylight hours. Actual cats fly out of their mouths, along with sexually objectifying remarks. It’s the year 2050 and nursing in public is mandatory. Whenever a woman starts nursing, every man within a quarter-mile is required by law to watch her do it while feeding her melon and calling her a ‘living miracle.’
It’s 2050 and men spend most of their time writing passionate letters and sending money to charismatic female murderers in prison. It’s 2050 and the number one compliment that women give men is “feisty.” It’s 2050 and instead of using fossil fuels, planes and trucks now run on feelings. The entire Supreme Court has been replaced by Tumblr posts by Avatar: The Last Airbender slash fans. Joss Whedon has been exiled to an uninhabited island where he is regularly brought food and supplies but forbidden from creating narratives about ass-kicking blonde women. The entire cast of Entourage are living footstools in Emma Watson’s house. It’s 2050.
It’s the year 2050 and it’s illegal for men to buy protein powder or use the free weights at the gym. They can use the stair-stepper and if they’re very good, the little two-pound dumbbells that are coated in pink plastic, but they can only use them for calf raises. It’s 2050 and feminists have sexualized men’s calves. It’s 2050 and it’s illegal for a man to play a guitar in a public place or to know what time it is. Men have to guess.
It’s 2050 and Werner Herzog is no longer allowed to make documentaries, only provide commentary over reruns of The Golden Girls and Golden Palace. This is where feminism is leading us.
Mallory is an Editor of The Toast.
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jaeferous 102p · 524 weeks ago
Danielle B. · 524 weeks ago
This was brilliant, but this sentence gave me enough incoherent feels to fuel my car for a month. Thanks, Mallory!
Unreadaethel 127p · 524 weeks ago
Also, it seems as if this post is opening the door for an "If Fairuza Balk Were Your Girlfriend" post.
nonemoreblank 90p · 524 weeks ago
miprisci 132p · 524 weeks ago
floss_is_boss 137p · 524 weeks ago
osutein 136p · 524 weeks ago
I will be dead in 2050 (I am a man, and so will have been trampled under the boots of Supreme Allied Commander The Bachlorette's merciless army), but I need someone to make this happen now, because I NEED IT.
typewriterandgramophone 124p · 524 weeks ago
crickwooder 121p · 524 weeks ago
sausagedog 127p · 524 weeks ago
Private places, too, I hope, unless given an explicit waiver from Annie Clark. End the practice of "Hey girl thanks for coming over to my dorm to work on homework oh I see you noticed my Fender anyways here's Wonderwall"
laurenipsum 109p · 524 weeks ago
perianwen 105p · 524 weeks ago
logicbutton 128p · 524 weeks ago
2. Joss Whedon aside, we can still have those narratives, right? Katee Sackhoff should never want for work.
3. Honestly, I can hardly blame men for being reluctant to smash the patriarchy.* I wouldn't want to either.
*but I do anyway
katiemcgillicuddy 125p · 524 weeks ago
wendybird15 106p · 524 weeks ago
What a time to be alive!
Relevant: that TNG episode with the matriarchal society: http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/star-trek-the-next-g...
projectbeks 119p · 524 weeks ago
thelyesmith 107p · 524 weeks ago
sulagna0 121p · 524 weeks ago
The future looks great.
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Linette 125p · 524 weeks ago
What I'm saying here is that this was the balm the day required.
Svanny · 524 weeks ago
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Laconic · 524 weeks ago
"Come on, take my new screenplay back with you" he says every time.
"Joss," I'll say "You know what happened the last time you convinced me you'd reconciled 2nd and 3rd wave feminism. Just take these 90s alt rock CDs back to the house and I'll see you next Tuesday."
"Yeah...yeah okay" he'll say. And then I'll start the motor back up on my little boat and head back to the mainland.
KonoOnna 93p · 524 weeks ago
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badmuthahydra 131p · 524 weeks ago
*Weeps into a lacey handkerchief*
AshleyB · 524 weeks ago
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Ian · 524 weeks ago
I have uneasy feelings on the feminist culture as well. Although, I rarely run into women with such strong views on this subject. Out of curiosity, how do you relate to women your age? Is it hard to have these views while being in a culture that creates a fad out of anything new and daring?
Ian
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