Posted on 03/15/2017 11:58:14 AM PDT by beaversmom
In a comment that will no doubt outrage the feminist left, Paglia praised men for taking on the most dangerous jobs in society.
It is an absolute outrage how so many pampered, affluent, upper-middle-class professional women chronically spout snide anti-male feminist rhetoric, while they remain completely blind to the constant labor and sacrifices going on all around them as working-class men create and maintain the fabulous infrastructure that makes modern life possible in the Western world. Only a tiny number of women want to enter the trades where most of the nitty-gritty physical work is actually going on—plumbing, electricity, construction. Women have played virtually no role in the erection of those magnificent towers in every major city in the world. It’s men who operate the cranes or set the foundations or wash windows on the 85th floor. It’s men who troop out at 2:00 AM during an ice storm to restore power to neighborhoods where falling trees have brought down live wires. It’s men who mix the stinking, toxic cauldrons to spread steaming hot tar on city roofs. Last year in a nearby town, I drove by a huge, chaotic scene where emergency workers in hazmat suits were struggling with a giant pipe break, as raw sewage was pouring into the street. Of course all those workers up to their knees in a torrent of thick brown water were men! I’ve seen figures indicating that 92 per cent of people killed on the job are men—and it’s precisely because men are heroically doing most of the dangerous jobs in modern society.
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Thank you for posting Beaversmom.
Here’s to the real men of America! Thank you, men!!
Great stuff, thanks
You are welcome.
Of course she’s right. And it’s not a NEW point to make. It’s always been the case.
Her Liberal ‘friends’ are going to tear her apart for this
Welcome...
And she’s been making it for quite a bit.
Agreed.
Wow- a real woman- so refreshing to hear her not putting men down- She brings up excellent points- There are women who do these jobs too, and they deserve praise too- but it’s mostly men-
She will likely now be the target of feminists, nasty women as they call themselves, who can’t stand giving men credit for anything-
She’s great. A true intellectual heroine.
No doubt. She’s butted heads with feminists since the 70s at least.
She's been making statements like this, taking flak from the man-hater feminists and socialists for years, and giving it back to them in by the dump-truck loads. She hasn't lost a battle yet, as far as I know ...
[[Only a tiny number of women want to enter the trades where most of the nitty-gritty physical work is actually going on—plumbing,]]
We have a husband and wife plumbing team in our town- they have been doing it for 40+ years now- crawling under houses in -20 degree F temps- for hours- fixing frozen pipes- She’s a tough little woman- probably stand 5’4”- but keeps right up with her husband-
Logic is incidental for Liberals.
Great story of the husband and wife team. No doubt there are tough, hard-working women.
cool- she sounds like quite a woman- We, conservatives that is, need women like her- instead of nasty liberal women like those on the view-
I have a friend who was sitting on his porch with his buddy watching a girl move in, upstairs.
The girls had always been snarky, feminist creeps to the guys. Do you think that either one of those guys offered to help with the heavy lifting?
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