Horsefaces Unite

Every woman whose face is longer than it's wide has been likened to a horse at some point, either to her horseface or behind her back. Every man too, for all I know. Children see the joke and so do other women. Though a horseface myself I was always distracted by the face length of Anna Gunn (Skyler White) in "Breaking Bad", however good an actress she is. As a horseface myself I find President Trump's use of the term in a tweet about Stormy Daniels hilarious. Almost predictably by now, Trump's use of the nickname has caused yet more complaints about lack of chivalry. How can a man publicly say such a thing about a woman? He's hardly the first, which everybody seems to forget, but granted he is the most prominent. How can he? Simple: he's giving as good as he gets, if not better. That's what he does when attacked, whether by a man or woman. He's an equal opportunity offender. So what's the problem with that, when feminism says women should be treated the same as men? Ah but there's the rub, so to speak. Because the aggrieved woman in question, Ms Daniels, gets naked in public, has sex onscreen for money, had consensual sex with a married man for potential career advancement, accepts a lot of money to keep quiet about her tryst years later when he emerges as a politician, dishonours her contract by talking about him very publicly indeed, and accusing him of intimidation by proxy, then publishes a book about him in which his genitalia, the genitalia of the President of the United States of America mind you, is described with such imaginative detail that it is discussed at length, so to speak, in all the major news outlets - and this woman gets touted up and down as a heroine of feminism, an empowered woman, a working woman, a single mom doing the best for herself and her daughter. Again, ladies and your male feminist allies, you can't have it both ways. If every woman is a heroine no matter what she does with her life, then why can't she weather an uncomplimentary nickname in retaliation to her own lack of good manners? Chivalry is all to do with horses, etymologically speaking. I like horses, and embrace my likeness to them. Hurray for horsefaces, I say.