Tag: feminism

  • 19 Feminists

    Nineteen feminists
    —yeah, nineteen—
    were sentenced today
    for laundering bra straps.

    Not the Steinem warriors.
    Not the women who marched, bled, built, changed the goddamn world
    while men smoked on the porch
    and called it thinking.

    No.
    These were the new models.
    The knock-offs.
    The grievance influencers.
    Feminism with a filter.
    Oppression with a promo code plus a series of weak hashtags that only resignate with band wagon broads who’ve never turned the pages of a book beyond Woman’s World.

    And the prosecution—
    a collection of men
    who still need two hands
    to operate a zipper—
    said the defendants got “girly”
    with a plea bargain.

    Meaning:
    they spoke clearly.
    And weren’t apologizing
    for taking up oxygen.

    Then the judge—
    God bless him—
    a man whose worldview
    was embalmed sometime around
    the Reagan administration,
    issued his verdict like a man auditioning
    for a parody of himself:

    Women. For life.
    No parole.
    No shopping.

    The courtroom gasped.
    Mostly because the judge thought
    he was being edgy.

    And in the back?
    Steinem’s generation.
    Arms folded.
    Looking at this circus like teachers
    watching students
    act out Hamlet using emojis, and incomplete sentences.

    Attention all gentlemen:
    a few of these new-breed feminists
    are still on the loose.
    Yes, you’ll know them.
    They weaponize victimhood
    like pepper spray,
    and treat every polite man
    like a war criminal
    who forgot to Venmo reparations.

    But—
    listen to me now—
    if you’re one of the rare good men,
    the real ones,
    the diaper-changing,
    emotional-labor-sharing,
    I’m-here-I’m-present-I’m-accountable men—
    you’re safe.
    You’re invisible.
    They don’t attack you. Because they know you aren’t a murderer but are capable of doing so with your barehands if that means protecting the woman you love.

    They only go for men
    who look like authority
    or know how to use a wrench.

    If you get “hard up,”
    the state recommends:
    Handle it yourself.
    Safest option.
    Least paperwork.

    Ignore that
    and you’ll find yourself
    caught in the spin cycle—
    tumbled, shrunken,
    and left in the lint trap
    next to every man
    accused of sins such as
    “interrupting,”
    “breathing confidently,”
    or “existing while male
    in the general vicinity
    of a complaint.”

    Outside the courthouse?
    Oh, it gets better.
    They’re shouting
    “GLORIA STEINEM! PROSTITUTION!”
    like it’s a spell
    that summons empowerment
    instead of proving they’ve never read
    a single goddamn thing she wrote.

    Somebody tell the prosecution
    this is community service.
    A PSA.
    A reminder:
    that real feminism is a movement,
    not a mood swing with a merch table.

    Meanwhile the doctor—
    who’s clearly done with everyone—
    sent his report:
    “Surgery successful.
    Patience drained.
    Shirt removed.
    Libido parked.
    Safest place for it.”

    He’s running on empty,
    but insists feminism
    stole the gas cap.

    This from a man
    who’s been firing
    homemade grenades
    of insecurity into every conversation
    since 2009.

    It is not easy—
    trust me—
    being a man
    married to the cleaning lady
    when the cleaning lady
    is the only person in the house
    who understands equality
    and how a washing machine works.

    P.S.
    Before you forget—
    help your wife
    with the laundry.
    Not to earn points.
    Not to look woke.
    Not to impress anybody.

    Do it
    because lifting your own weight
    is the oldest
    and sexiest
    political statement
    you’ll ever make.

    Mccarthy, not Cormac, Jamie McCarthy
  • 🎙️ Ode to Miscast Men

    (Response to misinformed feminist poet)

    Not every shoulder in an airport is a declaration of war.
    Some are just men…
    half-awake,
    burning their tongues on bad coffee,
    late for gate C17,
    thinking about rent,
    or their kid’s soccer game.
    But someone writes a poem,
    and suddenly he’s the businessman —
    the villain.
    The sting without the bee.

    Not every man who said, “I don’t believe in labels,”
    was dodging a leash.
    Some just hated boxes,
    the way words lock living things inside.
    Some of them loved harder without a label
    than others did with rings.
    But nobody writes poems about those men.

    He said he liked her hair another way.
    Maybe it reminded him of his mother,
    the woman who read him bedtime stories
    when the world was falling apart.
    But in the poem, he’s a chauvinist.
    No cross-examination allowed.

    There were men who fixed the leak at midnight.
    Men who held doors,
    held breaths,
    held their tempers while the world baited them.
    But they got folded into the punchline.
    Another “boy” in a list of wrongs.
    Their quiet was mistaken for guilt.
    Their hesitation, for harm.

    Some said “period sex is gross”
    because no one ever taught them otherwise.
    They weren’t gagging at her.
    They were gagging on their fathers’ silence.

    The one who didn’t say I love you fast enough?
    He wasn’t a monster.
    He was terrified.
    Not of love —
    of being written into someone else’s vengeance poem.
    He was standing at the ledge of his heart,
    waiting for a language that wasn’t a trap.

    Not every man who walked away was running.
    Some just got tired
    of opening their mouths
    and hearing the same labels echo back:
    chauvinist.
    toxic.
    boy.
    Their stories were pre-written.
    Their names replaced with archetypes.

    This isn’t some rehab for men.
    This is an ode to the mislabeled.
    The men who walked gently through a world
    that kept calling them wolves,
    even as they were the ones
    building the fences.

    They weren’t saints.
    But they weren’t the villains in your receipts, either.
    They were just men.
    Complicated.
    Flawed.
    Human.
    And maybe,
    just maybe,
    worth a verse of their own

  • Equality, My Ass

    she fucked 1,245 men in a day
    they called it empowerment
    i call it a goddamn endurance test
    with a participation trophy
    and a yeast infection

    feminism?
    sure.
    if you can sell it
    if you can pose for it
    if you can fuck it
    and file a tax return after

    they say women are free now
    but I’ve seen more chains in lace
    than I ever did in iron
    the old chains told you what you were
    these new ones
    whisper it
    in the middle of the night
    while you scroll, naked
    trying to be wanted
    by strangers
    who wouldn’t stop to piss on you
    if you were on fire

    patriarchy?
    at least it was honest
    it said: “you’re mine.”
    now it says:
    “you’re free to degrade yourself
    however you see fit”
    and sends you a promo code for lube

    this isn’t revolution
    it’s rebranding
    with lipstick, hashtags, and a ring light
    everyone’s selling their soul
    some just get better lighting

    i miss the women
    who didn’t have to prove anything
    didn’t need 1,245 pricks
    to feel something
    didn’t scream liberation
    while crying after
    the 8th faceless man
    and another fake orgasm

    but what the hell do i know
    i’m just a recovering drunk of 24 years
    I guess sobriety is watching freedom
    take its clothes off
    for tips…equality, my ass.

  • The Champion of Nothing(A counterpoint to bleeding for the applause.)By McCarthy (Jamie, not Cormac)

    The bar doesn’t give a damn what’s between your legs.
    v
    It only wants what’s in your liver.

    You weren’t “winning.”
    You were bleeding for attention
    and calling it strategy.

    You didn’t outdrink the boys.
    You auditioned for their approval
    and called the cuts trophies.

    That’s not rebellion.
    That’s just self-harm
    in a room full of spectators
    who forgot your name the second the bottle tipped.

    And Johnny?
    He didn’t hold you like a barred window.
    He left you outside of one—
    face pressed to the glass,
    mistaking cold for intimacy.

    You didn’t skip the wake.
    You skipped the reckoning.
    Drove past the house,
    hoping the blood had congealed into meaning.

    Here’s the truth you won’t tattoo on your thigh:
    You bled for a cigarette,
    and the only smoke left
    was your own delusion
    curling into the ceiling fan.

    You weren’t the champion of quarters.
    You were the cautionary tale
    passed around like a lighter—
    sparks, burns,
    and no one remembers who lit the match.

  • Emotional Support Whiskey

    “Emotional Support Whiskey”
    by McCarthy (written on a bar napkin, signed in ketchup)

    When the woman cuts in front of me at TSA,
    I don’t flinch.
    I picture her face-down in a Marriott pool,
    clutching a mimosa and a yoga mat.
    It’s not a murder fantasy.
    It’s a peace offering.

    I am 47 and have cried in more parking lots than churches.
    A woman once told me I had “sad dad energy,”
    so I leaned into it—
    got a flannel, grew a beard, adopted a dog named Regret.
    We howl at sirens together.

    A girl said she likes men who cook—
    so I made her a soufflé and ghosted myself.
    Poof.
    Gone.
    Left the oven on just in case.

    She said I was “too intense,”
    so I sent her flowers
    with a card that just said: “RUN.”

    Another said I reminded her of her ex.
    So I slept with her best friend
    and sent her ex a thank-you note.

    When she stopped texting,
    I took up taxidermy.
    Now I stuff my feelings
    into squirrels with tiny hats.
    I tour the Midwest with them.
    We sell out in Omaha.

    She wanted a man with a five-year plan.
    I told her I was more of a five-minute man—
    three of them spent wondering why I still talk to women
    who say things like “my truth” in a sentence.
    She left before the microwave hit zero.
    Good. I didn’t want to share my Hot Pocket anyway.

    I don’t key cars.
    I don’t listen to Taylor Swift unless I’m trying to fake empathy.
    I don’t write sad-boy poetry on rooftops.
    I don’t chase closure—
    but I will send a $2 Venmo labeled “emotional damages”
    just to see if they flinch.

    She told me I was emotionally unavailable.
    I told her I was emotionally under construction,
    but the crew quit, the permits expired,
    and Joy Behar took over middle management.
    Now my inner child gets interrupted every five seconds
    and accused of being problematic.

    I’m not mad.
    I’m just tired.
    Tired of pretending every cup of coffee
    isn’t just a slow suicide in disguise.

    But I’m still here.
    Still tipping 20%.
    Still flossing sometimes.
    Still saying “you too” when the waiter says “enjoy your meal.”

    I don’t need closure.
    I need a burrito and a nap.
    And maybe someone to lie to me about the future
    while I pretend I’m not googling if dogs and squirrels can actually be friends.