Boy bashing: Some say girl power movement may have gone too far

Alameda Times-Star ^ | Sunday, January 11, 2004 | Monique Beeler

[Old Student]

"When I first saw that, I was taken aback," says Greene, 51, a long time volunteer with her son's former Boy Scout troop in San Leandro. "I remember thinking, 'Why?"'

The image on the shirt shows a row of rocks hurtling through the air toward a stick-figure boy's head.

Harmless humor or injurious insult?

Opinions differ, but consumers have embraced anti-boy products, such as the "throw rocks" T-shirt created by

Clearwater, Fla.-based David and Goliath, which also markets journals with the same slogan, pajamas that read "Boys are smelly" and T-shirts emblazoned with "Lobotomy: How to train boys."

It's a chorus of messages that some parents, psychologists and parenting experts worry undermines the self-esteem and healthy development of young men in a society that subtly and sometimes overtly questions their worth in areas from education to child rearing.

[gaijin]

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[Scenic Sounds]

What horseshit.

Neitzche was in love with his sister; Kierkegaard was a eunich, and Schopenhauer was half-baked.

I agree - my dad threw my mom/sister out of the house when he caught her reading crap like that. ;-)

[Cathryn Crawford]

What in the hell are these people talking about? It sounds like so much gibberish to me.

That's because it is.

These semi-sociopathic antisocial sexual deviants had their problems, too.

[cherry]

never have seen any of the material you have mentioned, but the slamming of women is the sum total of most comedians ,rappers, rock stars, athletes (physically as well) as well as many other macho, macho men...they have a wide following among "ordinary" men.

when men start complaining about that, than I will start complaining about your issues.....

gee, its not too pleasant to be the brunt of constant jokes, innuedo, and belitteling , is it...

[Coeur de Lion]

Yeah, and imagine what would happened to the first boy to show up at school in a teeshirt with the slogan "Girls, aren't worth much, not until I can get 'em pregnant, barefoot and in the kitchen cooking my supper."

[StatesEnemy]

No... But it makes for a nice rebuttal to the feminazis.

[montag813]

No worries. Condescending misogyny and chauvinism are alive and well within me.

I am making sure to raise my son the same way.

Best training is repeated watching of Sean Connery "Bond" clips. Best one, from "Goldfinger": "Run along now, man-talk" (as Bond slaps young woman's bottom). Dean Martin in his "Matt Helm" flicks also useful to teach boys the proper attitude towards women.

[Scenic Sounds]

None of it's even plausible, huh?

[independentmind]

NO , it doesn't. It makes their arguments more persuasive.

[Cathryn Crawford]

Be serious. I know you don't think that way.

[KineticKitty]

The truly wise, however, will no doubt spit upon these words as filth. ; )

Source

[montag813]

Kierkegaard, the great Christian philosopher, says that "Woman is personified egotism," but that she can never know it because of her lack of penetrating thought. Nietzsche observes that "woman is first and foremost an actress.", and describes an actor as "a person who is skilled at combining falseness with a good conscience." Schopenhauer, in his renowned essay "On Woman" states that women . . . "are their whole life - grown-up children

Or, better yet, as Jack Nicolson's novelist character in "As Good as It Gets" responds to a adoring female fan's question "How do you write women so well?", he responds:

"I think of a man, and then take away reason and accountability".

[Richard Kimball]

Uncle Daddy's gonna give you a whippin for tellin about that.

[Old Student]

Not arguing.

However, it can all be avoided if one wants to. That thing in the living room that makes fun of you and brings such pain into your life has an off switch. It says ON/OFF on most of them. Though some of us try and try and we can't figure out which of the seventeen thousand buttons on the remote it is.

Wonder which gender invented that? Hmmm...

[BushCountry]

Mike: What hurt the most of all of your sex change operations?

Billie (formerly William): Scooping out half of my brain!

[TexasCowboy]

"These semi-sociopathic antisocial sexual deviants had their problems, too."

And their writings remind me of a Picasso painting - can't make heads nor tails of it!

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I am flattered. Does you wife know about your obsession with me?

[shaggy eel]

never have seen any of the material you have mentioned, but the slamming of women is the sum total of most comedians ,rappers, rock stars, athletes (physically as well) as well as many other macho, macho men...they have a wide following among "ordinary" men.

,,, would you say it's been a major cause in men rejecting you Cherry - if you've faced rejection by men at all? I've never been put off blondes because of blonde jokes.

[stylin19a]

and besides...everyone knows girls have cooties.

[Old Student]

Kindred Spirits!!!! I'm working on my degree to become a High School teacher, and planning on the same sort of stuff. Kick 'em while they're down!!!