Aldous Huxley foresaw a number of incredible triumphs in his novel, Brave New World, but it seems that in no point in the near, or even distant future, was liberation for women an attainable goal for him. In fact, despite the dystopic nature of his novel, Huxley instead created a world that is hauntingly similar to our own. ‘Brave New World’ is a second-rate replica of the misogynistic 1930s society that belittled women and gave men an unjust sense of superiority and entitlement. It’s a story that’s been written a million times before, and will unfortunately, be written a million times more. So why, ladies and gentlemen, do books that tell the same sexist story, give or take a subplot or two, become the must-reads of the 21st century? Is it
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These men, despite their place at the top, are the only ones unhappy with the system. But not only are these boring characters praised for being intelligent enough to see the detriment the class order brings, but they’re essentially worshipped for it by book-readers and lovers alike for rebelling against the totalitarian government. Even though they are the most respected and privileged people in society. This kind of attitude is a blatant reflection of modern society, where straight, white men, always have to include themselves in minority rallies, protests, and movements. It’s a circle were probably never going to crack. Like the All Lives Matter hashtag, or the ‘gender equality’ movement, the privileged people can never be happy to just help the little guy out. Instead, they need to prove that they too feel the weight of ‘oppression’. What some men of today, and all the men of Huxley’s novel fail to understand, is that liberal movements like that of the Black Lives Matter rallies, and the feminist movement as a whole, is that they’re not to say that no other groups matter, its more that, people are literally being killed for being black and theyre trying to stop that by bringing immense attention to the cause, not that black lives are the only ones that matter. Or even, that feminism is a movement for equality among genders, not trying to prove that women are better than men and that all women should stop shaving their body hair and start abusing men on the streets for being male. Why do men always have to take things so personally, its not like you’ve been the superior gender since the beginning of time, or anything? Like the other week when this particular video went viral and the women was praised by thousands of men for “saying everything they want to say.” The video dismissed feminism as an illegitimate movement because, in a shocking turn of events, feminism vouches for
These men, despite their place at the top, are the only ones unhappy with the system. But not only are these boring characters praised for being intelligent enough to see the detriment the class order brings, but they’re essentially worshipped for it by book-readers and lovers alike for rebelling against the totalitarian government. Even though they are the most respected and privileged people in society. This kind of attitude is a blatant reflection of modern society, where straight, white men, always have to include themselves in minority rallies, protests, and movements. It’s a circle were probably never going to crack. Like the All Lives Matter hashtag, or the ‘gender equality’ movement, the privileged people can never be happy to just help the little guy out. Instead, they need to prove that they too feel the weight of ‘oppression’. What some men of today, and all the men of Huxley’s novel fail to understand, is that liberal movements like that of the Black Lives Matter rallies, and the feminist movement as a whole, is that they’re not to say that no other groups matter, its more that, people are literally being killed for being black and theyre trying to stop that by bringing immense attention to the cause, not that black lives are the only ones that matter. Or even, that feminism is a movement for equality among genders, not trying to prove that women are better than men and that all women should stop shaving their body hair and start abusing men on the streets for being male. Why do men always have to take things so personally, its not like you’ve been the superior gender since the beginning of time, or anything? Like the other week when this particular video went viral and the women was praised by thousands of men for “saying everything they want to say.” The video dismissed feminism as an illegitimate movement because, in a shocking turn of events, feminism vouches for