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.
A rat is a dog is a pig is a feminist (with profound apologies to rats, dogs and pigs).
Proverbs 12:4 -- A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones.
Can you tell me when, in Western culture, women were ever "slaves?"
Ever hear of 'IN the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant?'
No one says differently.
Men think it ...they feel they are inferior to women....thus not allowing us to vote and not wanting us to work (old days).
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So you seek that in other cultures now.
Huh?
How many guys do you know marry women from other countries? My brother did. He married a girl 20 yrs younger than him from South America...because he told me American woman are too independent. (Just wait till she grows up--LOL) I've seen many guys admit the same thing here in FR --often.
Well you are a rarity today, Often when dealing with the sub 30 female crowd, they don't recognize chivalry when its staring em in the face.
Example:
Play VBall and then the team goes drinking every week. Gal on our team realizes she left her keys at the Gym... She and other gal decide to walk back to gym a few blocks away and see if its still open and try to get her keys. Its about 10:30 at night downtown.
I politely offer to escort them (not that anything is likely to happen, but it is 10:30 at night and they are 2 young ladies)... She reponds, "Why? Its only down the street, no stay here".. To which I respond "are you sure You don't want me to come with you?" She responds "Why? Its only a few blocks away"... at this another guy finally chimes in "He's offering you an escort to be polite and proper, its the virtuous thing to do."... She was completely dumbfounded.. in her mind she could not see a simple and proper and polite act by another for what it was.
And don't even get me started on how many women walk right past you holding a door for them without so much as acknowleging your existence, let alone a thank you if they are under 30 in particular.
My Grand Marquis needs brakes and exhaust work. What does she charge per hour?
Same here. when I finally moved out on my own (at 22, attended a comuter college so lived at home) my father saw to it that I had a tool kit.....but he also knew I knew how to use all of the tools, and also how to change a tire and check the oil. My husband does all of those things now, not because he thinks I can't, but knows I can.........and he's teaching our daughter as well.
What do you mean by 'trample?'
That's not funny.
Oh I can assure you, no daughter of mine will be driving anything until she can drive a standard transmission, check and change the oil by herself, change a flat by herself, pump gas on her own, and also know how to use the stupid "spill proof" gas cans by herself... just had to help a stranded motorist the other day with one of those.... Government solving another non existant problem with those foolish things.... She had the gas, but just couldn't figure out how to get it out.. she didn't know you had to press down to get the spring spill proof stupid think to let the gas out.
I want my daughter to be able to drive anything in a pinch... maybe not well, but at least able to.. so manual transmission and basic maintenance are required.
Lol! Already waded in! I wound up making sandwiches and serving them in a wet t-shirt.......somebody knock some sense into my head! :P
Fat chicks are going to be mad.
Men feel they are superior, not inferior.
Odd that such strident nonsense comes from one with the name of a cute, helpless creature.
SD
I gaze at the brilliant full moon. The same one, I think to myself, at which Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato gazed. Suddenly, I imagine they appear beside me. I tell Socrates about the national debate over one's right to die and wonder at the constancy of the human condition. I tell Plato that I live in the country that has come the closest to Utopia, and I show him a copy of the Constitution. I tell Aristotle that we have found many more than four basic elements and I show him a periodic table. I get a box of kitchen matches and strike one. They gasp with wonder. We spend the rest of the night lighting farts.
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