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They don't make models like this one, very much! I doubt I could afford another!
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.
Use and abuse for security and money. Like the way some men use women for sex.
She grew up Married my Great-grand father had eleven kids, was a midwife and delivered a thousand more, kept house and helped run the family Business, they were married for Sixty-three years, my Dad said that she was the most loving person he ever knew, said her life ended when her Oscar died.
And stay armed.
Okay, but I am a bad shot.
This is version 1.2. There won't be any more!
They don't make models like this one, very much! I doubt I could afford another!
Yes....those women are scumbags....but then I'll bet alot of those men married them becuz they were young and perky. Evens out.
Can't argue with you there. My husband hates the idea of me and manual transmission, but in a pinch I CAN drive one.........I hate it, but I can do it if I have to do so.
I just wanted you to say it again, Snookums. I like the way you talk.
Ever hear of 'IN the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant?'
I don't think the Hebrews in Egypt or Antebellum black people would appreciate you defining slavery down to such terms. There was a little more to it than that.
Men think it ...they feel they are inferior to women....thus not allowing us to vote and not wanting us to work (old days).
As a man, I feel inferior to women as a conscious choice because I find it stimulating while making love. I'm kinky that way.
Otherwise, I feel we are equals.
Not wanting women to work or vote was rather odd. I think it had more to do with thinking women should be cared for and not exposed to the hazards of hard labor (note that the feminist movement did not exist until "work" became defined as sitting in an air conditioned office all day. Not many feminists were squawking about their careers when work outside the home meant sweating in the fields enduring back breaking labor sun up to sundown six days a week).
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, there seems to be a preponderance of American women who see the hyper-feminists as role models and emulate them as much as possible. Most foreign women have yet to be infected with the "I'm such a b----, but you don't like it because you can't handle strong women" disease, yet. Most men just want to love someone and be loved in return.
That is apparently a concept that baffles many American women. But, not all. My American woman is a jewel. And no one who knows her would ever dare call her a "slave" or anything of the sort. She's as strong as they come. And I lover that way.
Well damn, where's my sandwiches???
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Dang,
You mean I've had it backwards all this time!
Lose 50 lbs, Maureen Dowd.
Wow! What a amazing family you come from!! If your great grandfather had 11 kids, you must still have a lot of relatives running around.
Your great grandmother will never be forgotten for all the wonderful and fantastically strong things she did.
God bless your family!
I'm an NRA personal protection instructor. I'll teach you to shoot better.
And what, fathers don't lose their sons?
Outstanding post.
I grew up driving farm trucks, tractors and manual transmission cars.
I hated them! With a passion. I can drive'm, but not because I like.
Thanks for having a sense of humor, and your intellectual honesty is appreciated. I've gotten flamed by women for that, after they have cracked jokes bashing men, literally. Sadly, some never see what's wrong there.
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