Knowledge Writing is Power and Misogynists can go to Hell

Writing is power.

There is no power in solving a math problem, or inventing a new science formula. Seriously. True power lies in writing.

You see, you don't need any proof when you write stories, especially if it's your own story. I write what I see and no-one can challenge me here. Writers go to a lot of trouble and get into a lot of trouble to get a lot of other people into a lot of trouble as well.

Writing is an indestructable weapon - especially nowadays, because all you need to do is post something on a blog or MySpace or Twitter or whatever and the whole world knows about it. Other people just can't control it.

Need proof? I got it.

One of my new favourite books is Wild Swans, by Jung Chang. It is a family biography detailing the lives of her grandmother, her mother and herself, set in Communist Mao Zedong China. It details all the horrors of an oppressed, censored country controlled by a psychotic dictator. No one can dispute what she's writing, because it's primary material based on an eye witness account, and there is no evidence against it. Sure, it's banned in China, but that's not the point. The fact is, the whole world now has access to an exclusive portal into what China was really like. That's power you just can't buy.

The main elements of the story were human rights (the lack of them) and misogyny. Misogyny is something I just don't get.

I know most people attribute misogyny to a gross misinterpretation of the Bible or the Koran, but is that really it? Or is it just some lousy excuse that men conjure up?

After all, the Bible and the Koran were both written by men. Religion is one of the most prejudiced and biased things in the world.

But what is it with men and power? Men abuse power, men cannot control power, men simply cannot be *trusted* with power. History can tell us that. And when things go wrong, they blame women, they suppress women. Women are punished all around the world, in history and even to this day, simply for being women. They are punished for things they have no control over. And there is no shame in being a woman. Men should try being women. Just for one day. They should just for one miserable twenty-four hours experience the shit even the most fortunate and well off women have to put up with, and then they'd understand.

Men are the most selfish, biased hypocrites to walk this earth. A bunch of hairy men walk by, no-one lifts an eyebrow. A woman that forgets to shave for one week walks by, and immediately there are comparisons with gorillas. I mean, why do woman have to be skinny and pretty and perfect, only to be treated like shit? Men have things so good, all odds are for them, that anything other than complete and utter reverence towards women just throws the whole thing out of proportion.

If you are a guy and you have ever laughed at a girl for something that they have no control over, I hope you go to hell. Or that you're reincarnated into a woman.