A MODERN RETELLING OF AN ANCIENT FABLE
Sexism is Easy to Explain
The problem is getting men to listen
[WARNING: this story is a parable, and not for the faint of mind. Keep your hands inside the cabin, as we may run into some pointed sarcasm, turbulent ideas, and the occasional attempted character assassination]
ONCE UPON A TIME, there lived six blind men in a village.
Their smart phone personal assistants notified them of a big event in eerie robotic tones:
“Hello, blind man, there is an elephant in the village today.”
They had no idea what an elephant is because they had terrible reception and could not google the answer. So they decided to take a chance and have an IRL experience by meeting up with this elephant, thinking:
“Even though we would not be able to see it, let us go and feel it anyway.”
The men went to the town square where the elephant was on display. Each of them touched the elephant.
“Dudes, the elephant is a pillar!” said the first man who touched her leg.
“Oh, no! it is like a rope,” said the second man who touched her tail.
“Wrong-O! it is like a thick branch of a…
