Today's YouTube Spots.

There’s a video appeared on my YouTube recommendations. It has a picture of a dog with its teeth barred, and carries the catch line:

Pregnant Man’s Dog Becomes Vicious.

Having scratched my head for a few minutes, I eventually realised that the words “pregnant” and “man’s” should be the other way round, so maybe whoever wrote it wasn’t a native English speaker. I wonder whether there’s a market for a freelance YouTube editor.

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Something else which is currently proliferating (trending?) on YouTube is the misogynistic video. There are lots of them, typically characterised by pictures of women looking tearful and terminally depressed. The standard message, usually being sung from the rooftops by smug men (although a few of the uploads are from women), promotes the view that since women’s issues achieved prominence, men don’t want them any more. Whole regiments of attractive women can no longer attract men, apparently, and they’re now in the depths of Hades with nothing to occupy their empty lives except abject regret at their foolishness. Poor little petals, eh? It’s a shame for them.

One of the more notable has a picture of a bloated, ugly old man whose face exudes the oily appearance of smugness and self congratulation. It carries the line:

Now that women have equality, they don’t want it any more.

That’s interesting because it carries the clear implication that he thinks women shouldn’t expect or have equality. And that brings to mind something I’ve said on this blog before: Old men tend to assume that advanced age is a natural guarantee of wisdom. It isn’t. I’ve generally found that what old men presume to be wisdom is more often than not simply the impression arising from having their feet firmly stuck in a concrete block of tradition and conditioned prejudice.

This whole movement is an insult to my heroes the suffragettes, and I don’t like it.