Dear Audi, It isn't 1959 anymore

2/10/17

When the Audi commercial appeared during the Super Bowl it struck me as odd and I guess I could say that I was somewhat put off by it. It is about a man asking what he should tell his daughter about her ability to be equal to men in the world. I shook my head and wondered "What was that all about?" I didn't give it much more thought until I came across an article, attached below, that expressed similar thoughts to what I had about it."

Audi Super Bowl Commercial

I think it put me off because it brought back a memory of something my father told me long ago. The year was 1959 and I was in the first grade when I brought home my first report card with an A+ in every subject. I was extremely excited about this accomplishment. When my father saw the card he grinned and gave me hug and a nod of approval, but then he said, "It's too bad you are a girl. The world won't ever let you reach your full potential."

He wasn't being cruel, he was being apologetic that women were not given the same respect or opportunities as men. He then went on to tell me examples of several important women in the field of science who were known by their colleagues to have done the most important work while their bosses or other men got the credit. Being a mathematician and scientist himself, he was blunt and pragmatic to a fault and he merely wanted me to be aware of what kind of place the world I lived in really was.

In his defence, later in life he told me I could be anything I wanted to be, but by then my world had changed to where that potential was real. By now it has changed even so much more, which is why I can not understand the Audi commercial nor the women who still march for equality. In my world today, a woman truly can do and become anything she wants to be, is capable of and willing to work for. I wouldn't go so far to say that there is not a small number of specific situations where men still hold the key to the club, but generally, the sky is the limit and the options are all inclusive.

I am not going to post statistics or examples of women's achievements here because they exist in such obvious, profound and numerous ways. What I do want to mention here is that I differentiated "my world" because there are mideastern and other countries where women still have no, or next to no, rights at all. 

The Audi commercial made me think not only about my own experience and how much things have changed since 1959, but also about what their agenda is to sell us the idea that women are victims of inequality in the western world. It made me wonder why they along with the women who march for equality in America disregard the plight of truly oppressed women in other countries. For those women, it isn't even like it was for me way back in 1959 in my world; they suffer the plight of almost barbaric times. 

It seems like we are being led to live in a made up world, where truth is sometimes not as bad as the media tells us, such as in the underlying message of this misguided Audi commercial. Yet other times reality is hellishly worse than is ever let on, such as for the women living in backwards nations or caught up in the sex trade. It is a tragic situation induced by brainwashing propaganda and covered by the concept of political correctness. 

I challenge Audi and the women marching for equality to examine their causes and their true motives. If they are pure, then celebrate the accomplishments of women who are lucky enough to live in the western world today where we have the opportunity to excel to our fullest potentials. Lend your voice and efforts to free the women in bondage if you really care about women's rights. If they are not pure, then you are purposefully misguiding the public by supporting the idea that women should feel like victims while ignoring those who suffer and that makes you my enemy.

As for me, my father telling me the world would hold me back made me all the more determined that I wouldn't let it. I think the things I went on to do in life were greatly influenced by this drive. I saw the same kind of determination in all of the other women I came across who were fighting for their own equality. We helped transform the way our world treated women, not by burning our bras, which is what feminists told us to do in the sixties, but by pushing boundaries and proving ourselves. Today the same types of people, aka "feminists," are telling women if they dress up like vaginas and wear pink hats to represent their female body parts that it will some how give them the equality they they actually already have. 

Women who don't understand that burning underwear and dressing vulgarly isn't the way to earn anything but ridicule are brainwashed. I worry about that because while staying in the victim mode they hold themselves back. They don't even see how dressing so absurdly outrageous demeans themselves and by proxy all other women. If that isn't bad enough, they are so blinded to reality that under the pretense of sticking up for their rights, they march along side of those who support and advocate for Sharia law which severely oppresses women. This is one of the strangest disconnects I have ever seen and truly mind blowing to observe. 

To those of us women who lived through the transformative changes in women's rights over the past fifty years and who actually took part in changing how women operate in society by pushing the limits and proving ourselves, I congratulate all of us. We did it! Please, lets make sure we don't allow anyone to take us back to 1959 or worse, to barbaric times. 

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