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

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

[sarasmom]

I dont like this kind of trash talk on childrens clothing any more than I like sexually suggestive comments on childrens clothing.
I dont like them on adult clothing either, come to think about it!
I guess what an old friend once told me is true-there will always be a market for crude and ugly.

[yarddog]

I once knew an old Federal LEO who was just about ready to retire. He once told me something I have always thought was funny.

He was an old country boy from Alabama and when he was drafted in WWII, he said a doctor told him to look at his hands then asked: Do you like boys or girls?

He told me in sort of a Gomer Pyle voice, "I said, why I like them both"

He said the doctor looked kind of disgusted then said go ahead you pass.

[annyokie]

Yes, I know. So much for philosophy, at least the Deutscher/Eastern Europeon variety.

[annyokie]

There's nothing new under the sun, indeed. Read these moronic philophers and you can either laugh yourself silly or take a handful of aspirin.

[Scenic Sounds]

LOL. Gulp! ;-)

[annyokie]

I'm getting concerned about you two. Especially since I do not speak Spanish.

[Old Student]

[Old Student]

"there will always be a market for crude and ugly."

Sadly, that is very, very true. After a run of kids getting suspended for dress-code violations, I had one of the HS girls I worked with show up with a t-shirt that said "Spoiled Brat." I asked her if it was "Truth-in-Advertising Day."

She said "Yes!" and smiled at me. Some of them get it, at least a little. There is hope for the younger generation, anyway.

[Richard Kimball]

I don't think most of them are insincere, but they haven't done any research since they got their degrees in 1968. They still think college statistics from the Johnson administration is relevent.

There are so many places to work that it's hard to decide where to start.

[Arkinsaw]

If someone has boys that will be mentally damaged by a girly shirt that says "boys stink" on it then they ain't been raised right.

I suppose that we will need to file a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all boys who are mentally damaged and have the federal government pass a law to establish a new political correctness where you can't damage the fragile sensibilities of them poor little old boys on girly t-shirts.

[Old Student]

I figure to catch them in High School, before they get hardening of the brain, personally. I've got far too many seriously liberal professors here at OU, but most of the ones I've had are willing to listen to an opposing view, anyway.

My favorite, however, was the guy I had at Rose State College for American Federal Government; Mr. Isaacs, a former Democratic state congresscritter. I was the class "token conservative" and between us, we whipsawed those poor kids! I ran into him in the hallway one day just before I graduated, and told him he'd inspired me to get into politics; I'd become a life member of the NRA. He ROARED with laughter! Scared some of the secretaries, too. ;)

[Old Student]

That won't happen until the liberals realize that they need sperm donors to keep the population up so they can stay in power after all the real men die off. As if that were gonna happen! ;)

[Diva Betsy Ross]

"I figure to catch them in High School, before they get hardening of the brain, personally."

Indeed ,it is "teachers" like you that make me thank my lucky stars I have the choice to homeschool!

For that I thank our troops and Vets who have fought for freedom and rule of law.

What happened to teaching kids subjects like Math, Reading and Science. For people like you it seems other people's children are your social experiments and fodder.

Why leave a child's development, and guidance up to the parents, and those teachers who wish to teach worthy material, when an anarchist can teach them the chaos theory and how it applies to everything under the sun? (Rhetorical)

[Justa]

"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."

"Hey, hey, hey ...so what, no love for Telly, eh?

Yeah....

Who loves ya baby?

[Trailerpark Badass]

My wife and I saw a security company commercial on TV tonight in which an intruder is frightened away by the burglar alarm. The mother calmly and decisively calls the police, while the father huddles in the background with the children, looking confused and frightened. The mother is then shown discussing the situation with the police, with an authoritative and serious demeanor.

Men are routinely depicted as feckless and incompetent in the popular media, and there are practically no positive portrayals of positive traditional manhood.

[Billthedrill]

It can be overdone, and IMHO the David and Goliath approach overdoes it. But there is a natural corrective - at some point girls do figure out that it's not that bad a thing if boys do, in fact, like them. The smart ones do, anyway. But there is an insidious part of this insistent hostility that is not benign at all - the girls who are convinced by repetition that they are little princesses and that by God boys, and later men, will take them on their own terms like it or not no matter how poisonous they act. These are the ones who spend their college careers in Women's Studies and their later journalistic careers writing "why are there so many single women?" articles.

[KeyTapper]

At first I thought you were flirting with my husband. Now I see that you are just envious of his intelligence.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Well how many screen names do you have now? That is a good one.. your husband, intelligent.. LOL! Thanks for the laugh!

[Nick Danger]

there is an insidious part of this insistent hostility that is not benign at all - the girls who are convinced by repetition that they are little princesses

There is maybe another insidious part of this. There seems to be a fairly strong breeze blowing through the "popular culture" right now that appears to have as its aim the encouragement of homosexual experimentation by adolescent girls.

The creation of an "us vs. them" mentality in pre-adolescent girls (who appear to be the target market for this merchandise) could be part of that encouragement. Get confused young girls to think it's cool to hate or despise boys, then show them Madonna and Brittney Spears making out on TV... one can imagine some coven of lesbians in Hollywood cooking up something like this and thinking it was a neat thing to do.

[KeyTapper]

The only one I've ever had. And yes, you should see his I.Q absolutely off the charts!