Posted on 07/26/2006 9:08:52 AM PDT by FreeManDC
It’s about time that we probe an assumption that has insidiously worked its way into our culture -- the notion that women are the guardians of goodness and grace, while all those male neanderthals are emissaries from the dark side.
I will freely admit that men indulge in a number of vices, those including gluttony, greed, and of course forgetting to put the toilet seat down. Growing up in the halcyon days of the Patriarchy, I was treated to my fair share of ribald humor. But nothing quite prepared me for what I saw a couple weeks ago.
Strolling at the local mall I spotted a young lass, maybe 13 years old. She was sporting a white T-shirt with an unusual picture. The shirt depicted a girl cold-cocking a boy. Above the how-to diagram were etched these words: “How to Drop a Boyfriend.”
For the last decade, we’ve been hearing the mantra, “There’s no excuse for domestic violence.” So how could anyone even think of wearing a shirt like that?
Of course the Lavender Ladies have long scorned traditional notions of feminine virtue. In her book Feminist Morality, Virginia Held haughtily dismisses the ideal of the unselfish, nurturing, and non-aggressive woman as “the whole female stereotype.”
So now we must ask, What happens to common morality when selfishness, aggressiveness, and all-around oafishness are held up as the cultural ideal for newly-liberated women?
I’m not going to dwell on the abortion issue. That’s because no one, not even the most rabid feminist, will claim that baby-killing is a virtuous action. Their excuse is that we must allow abortion so as to not put a crimp on a woman’s lifestyle options.
Let’s agree to put that one in the “selfish” category.
And what about our epidemic of hyper-aggressive females?
Our society is reeling from stories of sexually-assertive school teachers who prey on their male students. We find it incomprehensible that teenage girls would form into gangs and lurk in the alleyways. And research now shows that female-initiated partner violence is more common than the male variety. [www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2006/may/em_060519male.cfm ?type=n]
Think of Xena the Warrior Princess with premenstrual syndrome.
Which brings me to another one of my favorite T-shirts: “Girls Lie.”
Our society has become inundated with so many feminist prevarications that it has difficulty separating truth from falsehood.
Here goes: the oppressiveness of marriage, the stifling effects of childrearing, the gender wage gap, the epidemic of domestic violence against women, the exclusion of women from medical research, the shortchanging of schoolgirls, the catch-all insensitivity to women’s needs, and much, much more.
Which makes you wonder, How did the Nervous Nellies ever get through college without a Take Back the Night rally to steady themselves?
This is my personal favorite: “Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.” That insight comes to us by way of HRC.
Now visit any of the radical feminist websites – they seethe with anti-male diatribes and epithets. I’ve seen outright bigotry in my life, but nothing that quite compares with the rants of Andrea Dworkin, Catherine McKinnon, or Kate Millett.
Then there’s the fairness gene – or lack thereof.
Feminists squawk and fuss about “gender equality,” but once men become an endangered species on college campuses, all of a sudden the message shifts to “female empowerment.” When men die five years sooner than women, why does the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services fund Centers for Excellence for the ladies, but not the lads?
And if the women’s libbers want true equality, why aren’t they burning their bras so they can win the “right” to trek over to the post office on their 18th birthday to register for government service?
And now for the dirty little secret – feminists are the most intolerant people on the earth!
Last week the flap was over the Screen Goddess calendar that was adorned with 16 IT vixens. [www.itgoddess.info] Naturally the Champions of Choice became apoplectic. “Girls are often excluded from the possibility of the profession by its cultural maleness,” one woman shrieked.
And remember Larry Summers? He said there was a slight possibility that discrimination was not the reason for the small numbers of female physicists and rocket scientists. Even though he became a serial apologizer, the red-fems tarred and feathered the poor man and sent him packing from his Harvard U. presidency!
There’s a lesson to be learned here: You can never appease a feminist.
Napoleon Bonaparte once observed, “Female virtue has been held in suspicion from the beginning of the world, and ever will be.” That’s why as feminism gains, virtue wanes.
Anybody that thinks women are peaceable has never worked in a majority-female office (e.g., a typical school) or heard about a Junior League meeting.
Proverbs 21:19
Better to dwell in the wilderness, Than with a contentious and angry woman.
A wise man recently observed that modern American women have "virtually unlimited opportunities to cheat, and an infinite capacity to lie and rationalize about it." But I don't blame women for this - society has decided to lay aside all of its former constraints on female sexuality (which are still seen in an extreme version in Islamic states under Sharia law) , so it shouldn't surprise anyone that younger women are choosing to take full advantage of it.
The men who are killed lose something too. But that escapes the attention of the fembats.
Personally I enjoy doing the 'guy things' for women, however, my earlier rant still stands for all those Feminazis that chose to never accept and appreciate the inherent differences and stop trying to be 100% equal.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
We'll know it's hit rock bottom when we start hearing married men tell their gay male co-workers just how lucky they are for not having to deal with this crap on an hourly basis.
Where the Boys Are
GUADALAJARA--One hears often now that boys flounder in school, drop out, generally perform less well academically than girls, and don't go to college. A certain amount of this commentary comes from women who seem quietly to enjoy the spectacle. Given that women control the schools, this might suggest that, if they are not actually causing the problem, neither are they in a hurry to do anything about it.
Other people worry that the comparative superabundance of female college graduates will have no one to marry: While men will marry down, women won't.
Regarding all of which:
The cause is not that boys are stupid. Boys have higher average scores than do girls on standardized tests, for example, and at the high end are far ahead of the girls. Putting it straightforwardly, the very smart are predominantly male, particularly in mathematics, and the exceedingly smart, almost entirely so. You don't have to like it. You don't have to think it fair. But it is a fact, and everybody in the field knows it.
Consider. The maximum score on each half of the SATs, both verbal and mathematical, is 800. You have to be, or had to be until the tests were recently dumbed....for rest:
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What happens to common morality when selfishness, aggressiveness, and all-around oafishness are held up as the cultural ideal for newly-liberated women?
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The author nails it there.
nuff' said!
I serve on a board of an agency that is supposed to fight child abuse. I think I'm the token conservative.
There is a real sense that the entire domestic violence "industry" is still the domain of 1970's feminists. In fact, our local women's shelter held a fund raiser where "Vagina Monologues" was presented.
(For the record, the corresponding "Penis Monologues" were not performed, even though it was short, only lasting 15 minutes.)
Everytime I see a PSA that fights domestic violence, you see that it is the old "women victims, men evil" refrain.
Well, my local family court judge tells me that 1/4 to 1/3 of those doing the hitting are female significant others.
When it comes to child abuse, men tend towards violence, but women tend to kill their kids when they hit (5 kids in a bath tub, etc). Women vastly outnumber men in neglect charges. And, sadly, women are catching up with men in the sex abuse cases too.
I have to wonder, as parents go through supervised visitation, whether the "men are evil abusers" stuff that is taught to our social workers put men at an unfair disadvantage as they seek to prove that they are fit fathers, and (worse yet!) make a huge blind spot that cannot see an abusive mother.
I have always liked good women, but naughty ones are fun too.
Personally I enjoy doing the 'guy things' for women,...
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And this woman thanks you and all the other gentlemen around for doing so. I know it must be difficult to hear the constant criticism from society. I think men are wonderful and usually much easier to get along with.
When are we going to get past the idea that women's "liberation" is a brand new concept that we all have to get used to?
Women buy, sell, own businesses, run for high office, outnumber men in medical school, and generally do whatever they want to do. Except admit that some of us actually like taking care of a husband and a home. Then we're really worse than the men because we're gender traitors.
I don't have time right now to read the above article, I'm too busy following the Fox coverage of Andrea Yates who murdered her five children by drowning them in the bathtub.
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