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Feminism's anti-male devolution
The Orlando Sentinal ^ | 11/2/2005 | Kathleen Parker

Posted on 11/02/2005 8:08:21 AM PST by Fighting Irish

No one vets the culture with a keener eye than Dowd. Her identification of trends - especially the perverse evolution of liberated women from Birkenstock-wearing intellectuals into pole-dancing sluts - is dead on. But while she sees women clearly as they search for identity in a gender-shifting culture, she doesn't seem to know much about men.

Men haven't turned away from smart, successful women because they're smart and successful. More likely they've turned away because the feminist movement that encouraged women to be smart and successful also encouraged them to be hostile and demeaning to men.

Whatever was wrong, men did it. During the past 30 years, they've been variously characterized as male chauvinist pigs, deadbeat dads or knuckle-dragging abusers who beat their wives on Super Bowl Sunday. At the same time women wanted men to be wage earners, they also wanted them to act like girlfriends: to time their contractions, feed and diaper the baby, and go antiquing.

And then, when whatshisname inevitably lapsed into guy-ness, women wanted him to disappear. If children were involved, women got custody and men got an invoice. The eradication of men and fathers from children's lives has been feminism's most despicable accomplishment. Half of all children will sleep tonight in a home where their father does not live.

Did we really think men wouldn't mind?

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1 posted on 11/02/2005 8:08:21 AM PST by Fighting Irish
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To: Fighting Irish

"she doesn't seem to know much about men."

I just find that hysterical! I doubt many men want to know much about her!


2 posted on 11/02/2005 8:10:16 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: Fighting Irish
No one vets the culture with a keener eye than Dowd.

Really? I've always found her writing to be rather insipid and uninspired.

3 posted on 11/02/2005 8:13:39 AM PST by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: Fighting Irish
Feminism's anti-male devolution

Hmmm... something wrong there...

Cultural Marxism's anti-male devolution

There, fixed it, but I coulda called it "Critical Theory."

4 posted on 11/02/2005 8:14:17 AM PST by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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To: mlc9852

I find Maureen Dowd to be very entertaining. Most of her writing is little tongue-in-cheek, and you have to read it with a grain of salt. Anyone who took seriously her book comparing Bush Sr. & Jr. to Luke Sywalker & Darth Vader is a little obstinate at best. Anyway, she usually makes a few good points amid her long winded and long winding diatribes.


5 posted on 11/02/2005 8:17:03 AM PST by cchandler
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To: Fighting Irish

I think one way to get feminists to come to terms with themselves would be to put them all on a remote desert island, with no men, and come back a month later to see how they're doing.


6 posted on 11/02/2005 8:18:21 AM PST by shekkian
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To: cchandler

I can't stand her. But to each his own.


7 posted on 11/02/2005 8:18:48 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: Fighting Irish
Yes. I totally agree with the feminism business undermining men. However, first and foremost, it totally undermines women. Some can see how this is accomplished and others cannot. But we do not need to dwell on that one. This all goes back to The Holy Bible and how Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden. What did they do? They ate from the tree of Good and Evil. Hence, our men treat women badly and so our women have turned right around and thrown the feminist movement to and fro. Now the question is, How do we get out of this nasty little mess? Well, the only way out is to thoroughly acquaint/familiarize/know/read/understand, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera...(in Yul Brynner terminology)...You guessed it...The Holy Bible... God made quite certain this book(which is the #1 book of all time)was written, and stayed around for a reason. For ALL of us to read it. It tells us how we should live and what will happen if we don't abide by it all. Check it out. It is to your benefit to do so.
8 posted on 11/02/2005 8:30:24 AM PST by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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To: cchandler

She's such a whiner - and I don't find her airing her lamentable love live and other self-esteem problems in public to be very entertaining.


9 posted on 11/02/2005 8:33:02 AM PST by hsalaw
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To: Fighting Irish

Kind of odd timing... I'm reading a good book called "No More Christian Nice Guy" right now. A lot of the premise of the book focuses on how a lot of churches have been responsible for demasculating men in the past 30 years or so, and how to get back to where we should be.


10 posted on 11/02/2005 8:33:09 AM PST by faloi
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To: Fighting Irish
Men haven't turned away from smart, successful women because they're smart and successful. More likely they've turned away because the feminist movement that encouraged women to be smart and successful also encouraged them to be hostile and demeaning to men.

I don't know whether it can be blamed on the feminist movement, but many "smart and successful" women do come across as hostile and demeaning toward men.

11 posted on 11/02/2005 8:37:30 AM PST by Logophile
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To: cchandler

She definitely does have her moments. Though I do dislike her in general.


12 posted on 11/02/2005 8:38:46 AM PST by Alexander Rubin (Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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To: Fighting Irish
bookmarking.
Will read it after I get my nails done.
13 posted on 11/02/2005 8:40:53 AM PST by heybeavis
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To: Logophile; Fighting Irish

By women claiming they have control of their reproductive rights (ie - control of the fetus) they in essence said men are not needed. Thus we have the situation in our family courts where women are granted sole custody (like the liar Bridget Marks) simply because they have the golden uterus.

I am female. I still find it appalling that feminists do not wish to be EQUAL with men, they wish to be ABOVE them.

It takes two to create that life, yet a woman doesn't even have to NOTIFY her husband of an abortion??


14 posted on 11/02/2005 8:58:24 AM PST by mosquitobite (What we permit; we promote. ~ Mark Sanford for President!)
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To: Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin

Check out the #8 reply, people. I'm telling you exactly what is going on, here. Just read it and see.


15 posted on 11/02/2005 9:17:04 AM PST by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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To: Logophile

Maybe because they're lesbians?


16 posted on 11/02/2005 9:37:06 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: Fighting Irish

Having grown up and observed the women's lib movement as one of those "unneccesary" men, I also observed the conflicts so many women endured by wanting to have a traditional marriage and family without betraying "the sisterhood".

Feminazis have insisted that men reveal "their female side", weep, knit and shop and, when we do, they abandon us for the kind that treats them like crap. I never understood it and hope I never do. If the man you are with doesn't treat you like the best thing that ever entered his life, perhaps you might want to re-consider your values.

I dated and was ditched by a number of ladies who, in the long-run, were unable to contemplate betraying the sisterhood and settling into a life that God intended as husband and wife.

My wife is grateful for their looniness. I am grateful for my wife.

Kathleen Parker hit this one out of the park.

Maureen Dowd has the life she deserves.

Things have a way of working out the way they're supposed to.


17 posted on 11/02/2005 9:50:35 AM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: DustyMoment
they abandon us for the kind that treats them like crap.

I make no effort to understand it. My wife, who does not want to be treated like crap, also doesn't make any effort to understand it. But then again, she wasn't born here either.

18 posted on 11/02/2005 10:07:06 AM PST by Mark17
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To: DustyMoment

Things have a way of working out the way they're supposed to.


I totally agree with you. However, we must all remember that just because this phrase is true, it doesn't mean that those either directly or indirectly involved in any given situation are to sit back and watch the wind blow, while knowing the mad scientist is destroying whatever they choose. God did not create man for that purpose. The way our constitution provides for us to get involved is by voting.


19 posted on 11/02/2005 12:33:32 PM PST by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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