DOGE And The Gender Wars

Is this about eliminating "cushy email jobs" so that women must be economically reliant on men again? Uh, not really.

The Internet in the last few years has become utterly unhinged in terms of “takes,” with only a modicum of sense and rationality peeking through those clouds. I would say that happened at some intersection of COVID, three Trump elections, #MeToo, and the Hawk Tuah phenom of becoming oddly wealthy and moving to Los Angeles based on one clip of you. I may be mistaken on my history here, but I believe the Internet was initially developed as both a security tool and a chance for far-flung professors to collaborate with each other. Decades on, it’s basically a way for disgruntled people of both genders to dunk on the other gender, give or take. Remember this “out of my league” story?

Here is a new post from Cartoons Hate Her, with the salacious title of “Is DOGE About Sex?” If you cannot immediately follow the bouncing ball, and have not looked at the screenshot I used in this post, basically the idea is that DOGE is a way to eliminate cushy “email jobs” — news flash: many, many, many white-collar jobs are now “email jobs” — and because the belief among chronically-online male chuds is that email jobs are 99% female, basically Elon has hacked the birth-rate problem. Women will get fired, and then they will need real men with purpose, so they will turn to blue-collar guys and drop their skirts.

Hmmm. Uh.