Posted on 03/07/2012 7:26:26 AM PST by cleghornboy
Heather Mallick, columnist for The Star, is angry. What has her so upset? The fact that a young man who attends a Catholic school should have the audacity to exhort young women to be modest in their attire.
Matt Gurney, writing for the National Post, said that the 17 year old Catholic student, "clearly believes that many of his female peers do not treat each other, or themselves, with due respect, and he wishes that everyone would focus more on how wonderful they are on the inside and not how attractive they can make themselves on the outside." This is a message any sane person would stand behind. And it is, in fact, a message which Sister Mary of the Immaculate Heart (Lucia dos Santos of the Fatima apparition), had for the young women of today: "When I think of the United States I think about this: one of the things which Our Lady especially asked for was modesty in dress. There does not seem to be much modesty in the life of the women of your country. But modesty would be a good sacrifice to offer Our Lady, and it would please her if the Catholics in your country would make a league for modesty in dress."
But Mallick believes she knows better. So enraged is she that a young man should embrace Catholic teaching on modesty and the dignity of women that she lashes out with that vitriolic rage which is so characteristic of today's intellectually impoverished radical feminist. She writes, "There’s a kind of man universally unpopular with women. He is Controlling Man. Just say 'he’s kind of controlling' to your women friends and they hiss and draw back as if they’d been sprayed with lemon juice. From whence do controlling men come? I always wondered and now I know. Paul Gomille, a 17-year-old student at Archbishop Denis O’Connor Catholic High School in Ajax, wrote a message to the girls and women at his school, a declaration that he claimed 'strikes at the very core of humanity itself, in an attempt to make a revelation of truth apparent to all of you, with awe inspiring certainty.' Really, Martin Luther could take lessons from this guy. Who taught him this nonsense?...Females from age 2 to 92 speak as one: We do not care to hear male opinions on our clothes unless it’s 'You look fabulous in that. Radiant. Wow.' When we ask you if the sweater works with the scarf, the word we want to hear is 'yes.' And then, frankly, we’ll change the sweater. If he’s a Controlling Man who says it’s too tight or uses the phrases 'no wife of mine will . . . ' we detach...Gomille may be 17 but he sounds 102 and we hear from males like him all our lives. They’re correctors, judges, buzzkills...There’s a worrying prescriptiveness in Gomille’s unasked-for definition of how his fellow students should dress. We women are half the world. In the workplace men and women stand side-by-side and are gradually learning how to accommodate each other’s differences. Keep your advice to yourself, preacher. Trust me, girls like that in a boy." (See article here).
For radical feminists like Mallick, Catholic teaching has no place in society and the only legitimate function of men today is to keep their mouths shut unless they are willing to totally agree with the women who surround them. This is a necessary corrective since all of the world's evils originate in "male supremacy" and a "patriarchal culture."
The reality is, of course, something far different In the words of Robert Bork, "..feminism is by far the strongest and most imperialistic [on today's college campuses], its influence suffusing the most traditional academic departments and university administrations. Feminists are revising and radicalizing textbooks and curricula in the humanities and the social sciences. They have a major say in faculty recruitment. Feminists increasingly control what is taught in high schools and elementary schools as well. Speech codes and 'sensitivity' training severely limit what can be said on campus. The feminists have not only done harm to the intellectual function of universities and schools, they have made campuses extremely unpleasant, especially for white males, who are subject to harassment and demands that they toe the feminist cultural and political line." (Slouching Toward Gomorrah).
For Mallick, Paul Gomille is attempting to be a "controlling man" because he had the sheer unmitigated gall to....offer his opinion. And for that, this young man deserves to be silenced. And suspended from his school. For the role of men today is one of subservience - one of complete subjugation to women. This is what women like, this is what they demand, from men today according to the radical feminist creed. Which is why she writes, "Keep your advice to yourself, preacher. Trust me, girls like that in a boy."
Not all girls Heather. Only angry and bitter feminists like you who are frozen in 1960s nostalgia. We've all heard your act. And it didn't play well. It's time for you to move on.
In any case, we've heard enough from the Controlling Woman - the radical feminist
Men have to stop backing down from this crap.
S'ok, darlin' I won't impose my beliefs on you when the wolf is at the door, and you need someone with just enough testosterone poisoning to go confront it.
I'll just go to the fridge and get another beer and watch the show.
/johnny
As soon as this kind of woman opens her mouth and starts spewing forth her rant, this man will walk away from her.
Thats nice honey, is lunch ready?
My wife, as a rare conservative at the all-women’s Smith College (of all places), wrote a paper denouncing and criticizing feminism. She criticized, among other things, feminists for not being feminine. Feminists, IMO, try to be men, and are terrible at it. They give up being women in the process. I bet Mallick has no problems with the domineering, controlling woman.
/johnny
We get revenge in the best possible way - we don't marry women like this. And they get older, and louder...and ever less relevant. :)
Yikes. That vein on her forehead is scary, too.
Shut up and go fix me a turkey pot pie, Mallick! When you’re finished with that, do the laundry and mop the floors!
“Females from age 2 to 92 speak as one”
NO, they don’t!
I bet it’s a good read.
While they despise men...they dress like them, and become arrogant, brash, and angry.
When a feminine woman is in their midst, they oppress her MUCH WORSE than any man would.
They really despise their own reproductive system, and what it produces.
Mallick was born in Norway House, Manitoba and raised in the northern Ontario town of Kapuskasing and in other remote communities where her father worked as a physician. Mallick attended the University of Toronto where she received a bachelor’s and Master of Arts degrees in English Literature. She also earned a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Ryerson University.
Mallick is married to Stephen Petherbridge, a senior British/Canadian journalist.
steve.petherbridge@thebaystreetbull.com
In 2008, after Sarah Palin was selected as the U.S. Republican party’s Vice-Presidential candidate, Mallick, among other things, labelled Palin as “white trash” and an “Alaskan hillbilly” and likened her to a “toned-down ... porn actress” in a column for the CBC.
An investigation by the CBC ombudsman found that “many of her most savage assertions lack a basis in fact”, and that her aspersions on the sexual inadequacy of Republican men “would easily be seen as, at best, puerile” if “applied to any other group”. The publisher of CBC news, John Cruickshank, apologized for publishing Mallick’s column, which he called “viciously personal, grossly hyperbolic and intensely partisan”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Mallick
I’ve heard this sort of thing on “women’s” issues in the past. The liberal feminists say that men should have no say about abortion policy, birth control, etc. because men don’t get pregnant.
I ever heard one liberal female say that “men don’t have a (blank) so they have no right to tell a female what happens with her body”.
Seldom today is such raw paucity of human values and human devotion on such public display.
She is much more to be pitied than scorned. How sad.
CA....
I would argue that civilization itself originated with patriarchy.
In the absence of patriarchy ("rule by fathers"), you have young men doing as they please, having no interest in marriage or in the children they procreate. You have young women getting impregnated by guys who show no interest in raising the children they spawn. Essentially, you have the current "inner city" culture.
Under patriarchy, you have fathers instilling values into their sons, and discouraging "unsuitable" guys from going near their daughters. The patriarch is motivated to build assets that he passes down to his descendents.
She’s insane, imho.
At first glance I thought that was Margaret Hamilton, sans the green make up and costume!
CA....
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