It would seem I’ve waken up to yet another extreme of the obvious hypocrisy in what’s being demanded as “reality.” Some people genuinely still do not “get it,” while others still willfully refuse to see.
Either way, and from all sides, there is an overarching question: Has society reached a true tipping point?
Based on the reaction to a black man in white face, it would seem double standards have finally outstayed their welcome overall.
Notice the general pattern of double standards over the last several years:
Women can mock men.
Trans can mock cis.
Non-whites can mock whites.
Gay can mock straight.
Flip any of that around and you’re cooked.
Look at the standards a little more deeply:
The most obvious example is how men putting on “woman-face” or women putting on “man-face” isn’t just accepted — it’s demanded that everyone affirm it as their literal reality and “respect” it.
So, logically, if that’s celebrated and that’s “reality,” then picking on any culture in jest for their quirks, failures, or oddities should be just as acceptable.
That sums up what people are really upset about re: this skit that’s been circulating the last couple of days: it’s the double standards.
And it’s not just white people who have had it.
Yes, this particular skit has a lot of white people speaking out — they’re tired of being singled out as the only group not permitted to joke back, and then accused of lacking a sense of humor when it’s done to them.
But consider society as a whole:
Non-whites and whites alike are fed up with their own people acting like ungrateful, entitled fools — wasting the opportunities their ancestors fought to provide them and destroying the respectability they strove for.
By now becoming loud, lazy, and disrespectful criminals, people make a mockery not only of their rights and the many opportunities they have if they would simply show up, but of their entire communities.
Whites are fed up with Karens and Chads.
Legal immigrants feel the same way about illegals trashing the opportunities they earned by doing things the right way — respecting the privilege of coming to another country, rebuilding responsibly, and treating that privilege with honor.
Instead, illegals cause even legal immigrants to take the flak, lose opportunities, and be punished for things they didn’t even do.
Masculine men are tired of being told they’re assholes instead of protectors, simply because masculinity is constantly mistaken for toxicity.
Men of every race and personality type are sick of women parading around declaring they don’t need men, accusing and blaming men for everything wrong in the world — while in the same breath lamenting absent fathers, complaining that men don’t “show up” in general, and then demanding applause and respect for a world women absolutely didn’t build without the strength and masculinity of men.
Women of all races and personality types are sick of being pressured to accept men in dresses not only mocking them and what it means to be a woman, but especially a mother, and having their spaces invaded and reclaimed as “everyone’s space,” only to be labeled ‘phobic’ or hateful for feeling that way.
This isn’t only racial. It’s far broader than that, and these are only a few of many examples.
Most, if not all, “everyday people” — all of us who are not filthy rich or sitting in positions of power — are fed up with war, crime, cruelty, and double standards. We just want to work hard, add meaning to the world, and reap the fruits of our labor: enough to survive, and enough to live — to enjoy a healthy, peaceful, happy existence.
When did that become an unrealistic or unacceptable dream to have? It’s one that has echoed through the ages.
Society as a whole is at a tipping point — fed up with hypocrisy, nonsense, and the double standards that no longer make sense.
The solution, as I keep attempting to remind people, is simple across every aspect of society — yet seemingly impossible for most: for all people to embody empathy for others while taking accountability for themselves, existing in and acting from discernment.
It is to embody some semblance of morality overall, respect nature, the planet and all its people, but especially ourselves. If we do that first — embody true self-love and self-respect — the depths of it, and not merely the mask — all the rest falls into place on its own.
Will that be impossible for you? Or will you make it possible for yourself, and thus for others?
Good luck out in the world today. Much love from me to you (no matter who you are).
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xo,
c.
catacosmosis 