Posted on 06/11/2007 4:18:16 PM PDT by PercivalWalks
Feminist writer Rebecca Traister and I debated the question "Is America Bashing Its Men?" in the June issue of Atlanta Life Magazine (pictured). Traister is a staff writer at Salon.com who has written for the New York Times, New York Magazine, and others.
Traister and I didn't agree on much of anything. We were asked the following three questions:
1) Why are men’s issues in the areas of divorce, child custody and support, false accusations of rape, and discrimination in the workplace and in society almost never covered by the mainstream news media?
2) It seems atypical to see men in commercial advertisements represented as hard-working, competent individuals who are respected authority figures in the family. Why do you think this is?
3) What do you think accounts for the fact that girls are enrolling and graduating from college at a much higher rate than boys? Does this fact highlight other educational disparities between boys and girls?
In response to question 1, Traister asserted that men's and fathers' issues get plenty of media attention, citing the Duke rape controversy and coverage of the Alec Baldwin and Anna Nicole Smith cases as evidence. My answer to the question was as follows:
"One, men don’t tend to complain, and most people don’t like to hear men complain. A woman who complains is a victim; a man who complains is a whiner.
"Two, the women’s groups are well-organized, have a long history, and a large influence on the mainstream media.
"Three, many of the injustices men face are in areas which can’t easily be made into short sound bites. The media doesn’t like to get into divorce/child custody because when you do, you’re immediately in the realm of he said/she said. Whatever you’re discussing is intensely personal and private, which invites legal problems.
"Four, media people are college educated, so they’ve been influenced by the anti-male feminism from their colleges’ Women’s Studies departments. They graduate saddled with misinformation about gender issues, and this makes them less likely to pay attention to men’s concerns.
"Five, while feminists would have us believe that men are complicit in a patriarchy designed to make themselves privileged, in reality most men care far more about women’s feelings and hurts than they do about men’s. When confronted with a problem facing women or a problem facing men, most men will address the former long before the latter."
The debate is available on line--go here: atlantalifemag.epubxpress.com/alm1. Go to pages 12 through 15.
To read more about similar issues go to Glenn Sacks' blog at GlennSacks.com.
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BUMP!
Is Percivel, Glen?
Ask him.......
A feminist acknowledged a false accusation of rape?
I can sympathize with what feminism and Marxist popular culture has put a lot of men through, but it is distinctly un-masculine to whine about it. It is even more so to whine about it to a feminist. The manly thing to do is to take responsibility for your mistakes, learn your lessons, suck it up and move on.
I really can’t figure out what these men want, for the federal government to give them back their masculinity, to feel their pain, or to make things right? The federal government created the problems. The real problem is that you were enamored by a godless culture and now you’re whining because it turned on you.
It is still a man’s world. Men should start acting like it and stop whining. Don’t like American women? Go to any non-westernize country in the world and find a wife who will be more than happy to take their place. Don’t like what’s on TV? Turn it off and read a book. The Bible would be a good start. I haven’t had a TV in years. Don’t miss it one bit. Don’t like what they teach in school? Make sure you get a foreign wife who will home school your children. Don’t like what they teach in college? Start a business where you can be your own man. One can make a lot of money in the trades. And you don’t have to put up with feminists or metrosexuals. Leave the fools to their godless Marxist culture. They will self destruct anyway. You can buy everything they own later at foreclosure.
It’s a man’s world. Stop asking feminists or the federal government for permission to be a man in it. And for crying out loud, stop whining like a bunch of women and start acting like men.
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