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College Op-Ed: The Phrase ‘Man Cave’ Is Offensive
National Review ^ | November 17, 2015 | Katherine Timpf

Posted on 11/24/2015 4:30:01 PM PST by Clintonfatigued

Your room name is hurting people.

According to a recent student op ed, a bro-dude calling a room in his house a “man cave” is not just obnoxious but truly harmful to women and a “disgusting patriarchal myth.”

“While I think it’s perfectly acceptable, and even healthy, to have separate spaces where one can enjoy time alone, the gendered language around ‘man cave’ is pretty gross,” Kalani Ruidas writes in a piece for Golden Gate Xpress, San Francisco State University’s official student newspaper.

Lest you think that what a dude decides to call a room in his own house isn’t hurting anyone, Ruidas wants you to know that the idea of a “man cave” amounts to a “passive dig at femininity” — yes, the very idea of femininity! — because it’s like saying that “women are such a burden that they’re restricted from that zone.”

(Of course, some people might think that some rooms are called “man caves” just because they’re filled with traditionally “man-like” things. However, intelligent people know that this could not be the case because gender roles obviously do not exist.)

“They’re the makings of a shrine to big business that has man-cavers nostalgic for a time when they were happy . . . guys should get over the feudalistic idea of a man cave allowing them to be the ‘lord of their manor’ in a room they can call their own,” Ruidas explains in her piece, which is titled “Man Caves Perpetuate Patriarchy.”

In addition to perpetuating patriarchy, Ruidas argues, “man caves” can also make racism worse . . . because “a man cave is a place where a man devolves into a grunting subhuman that leaves sexist and racist comments on message boards

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1 posted on 11/24/2015 4:30:01 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; GeronL; ..

Feminists must have wonderful lives if they can’t find anything more serious to complain about than this.

Perhaps the “Man cave” can be less offensive to feminists if the occupants have gay sex./heavy sarcasm


2 posted on 11/24/2015 4:31:55 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gaits)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Masculine Cavern??


3 posted on 11/24/2015 4:33:22 PM PST by Sasparilla
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To: Clintonfatigued

Would a woman’s sewing room in turn be harmful to men?


4 posted on 11/24/2015 4:33:40 PM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Clintonfatigued

On one side, we have complaints about the burden of college debt. On the other side, we have people majoring in “queer studies” and “gender studies” and “women’s studies” and spending their lives whining about microaggressions and political correctness without contributing to the world. Chances are no one on the left sees the connection between wasting their time on nonsense and being unable to pay their debts.


5 posted on 11/24/2015 4:34:17 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Offensive to whom?


6 posted on 11/24/2015 4:34:36 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Clintonfatigued
Retarded Snowflakes!

Offended? ...good.

7 posted on 11/24/2015 4:35:56 PM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: SkyDancer

Weftist Weenie Woosers


8 posted on 11/24/2015 4:36:39 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I assume “Cave Man” is also offensive. What about “Cave Person” and “Person Cave” ? /s;)


9 posted on 11/24/2015 4:36:55 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Clintonfatigued

Can’t we have one small portion of the house to call ours??


10 posted on 11/24/2015 4:37:13 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Remember how a few years ago the feminists were all upset that women’s rooms tended to be located a few steps further down the hall than men’s rooms?

So I’ve noticed now that when there are restrooms located in a little hall off a main room (like in a restaurant) the woman’s room tends to be first.

Which means that any man who is on his way to use the facilities has to avert his eyes if someone comes out of the women’s room as he’s passing.


11 posted on 11/24/2015 4:37:42 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Rurudyne

My dad has a cool man cave - always like to be ‘invited’ to watch sports and movies. And he has a great popcorn machine and bar.


12 posted on 11/24/2015 4:37:54 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Clintonfatigued

I am offended by the word “College”


13 posted on 11/24/2015 4:38:42 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Your room name is hurting people.

I have done worse than kill you.... I have HURT you. And I wish to go on HURTING YOU. I shall leave you as you left me.... buried in the center of a lifeless planet.... buried alive..... buried alllivvveee......


14 posted on 11/24/2015 4:39:33 PM PST by Lazamataz ( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Just change it to Safe Space for Men. Ooops, are men allowed to have safe spaces? White, heterosexual men?

That question would probably get a person expelled for many colleges these days.


15 posted on 11/24/2015 4:40:30 PM PST by Will88
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To: Clintonfatigued

Any man that caves to that blather deserves to be bannished to th women’s sewing circle.


16 posted on 11/24/2015 4:41:20 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: SandRat
Can’t we have one small portion of the house to call ours??

It's usually the garage where guys fix stuff for wives. The best definition of a husband I've heard is "A gardener with sex privileges."

17 posted on 11/24/2015 4:41:30 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: Clintonfatigued

If I’m an employer and I have a job opening, and have a choice between a college-educated person and one with just a high school diploma I’m picking the one with the high school diploma. Our colleges are turning out braindead idiots and filling their minds with mush.


18 posted on 11/24/2015 4:41:31 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: Clintonfatigued

No, it’s where we drag the women in by their hair....and have them clean it up.


19 posted on 11/24/2015 4:42:02 PM PST by Vermont Lt (I had student debt. It came from a bank. Not from the Govt.)
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To: TexasCajun

I honestly can’t believe the things these ‘tards complain about. How the he!! do twits like this get accepted to a university?


20 posted on 11/24/2015 4:42:50 PM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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