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.
Are you my husband under a different screen name?
Would you say that anger out of insecurity is caused by some inability to communicate or something else?
Much more predictable than an individual's world views, philosophies, emotions, observations, or what men will do for simple entertainment.
Love and Laughter......the complimentary foundation stones of enjoyable relationships.
I really enjoyed what you posted. Reminds me of a mpeg video sent to me 3 years ago by a female friend. The video starts off with this really sexy woman removing her black silk bathrobe heading to her garden tub. Next few scenes shows her soaking in the bubble bath. Her boyfriend comes flying into the tub. He arrives in the tub by doing a cannon ball into the tub. Grabs a Hahn beer, opens it up, takes a sip and then looks at her with a inquisitive, innocent expression; throws his hands up slightly, shrugs his shoulders and says: "What????"
You are the one making the assumptions, as I neither assumed or said any such thing. Yeah, I made a mistake and married a jerk, and learned my lesson.
What's your excuse for putting words in the mouths of others?
My husband happens to be one of the most secure people, male or female, I have ever met in my life.......but he considers me his equal. Not equal in abilities to do various things, but equal as a human being. You don't seem to understand that concept. That is not my problem.
I used to have that mpeg! LOL! Yes, exactly, that coocoo boyishness is incredibly charming. Sometimes it's irritating, but most often it's refreshing. Jumping in that peaceful tub and lighting farts with historic geniuses is the youthful enthusiasm that men retain that continues to attract us.
"Are you my husband under a different screen name?"
- Sigh, if only. If you can see yourself in my description, he is one lucky man indeed.
You need a smackdown too? Stand in line, hon! At least you're man enough to admit it! Now how would you like YOUR sammich, dear? :P
I don't know.....it's something I will have to think on....I don't expect to be real busy at work this evening, so I will ponder that thought.
As human beings, we are equals..........I can't say the same about you.
More pity on them. I "like" strong, intelligent women. My wife has a PhD in chemistry. My mom was hard as tool steel when needed (old-fashioned Southern "gentlewoman"--see "Steel Magnolias").
The vid below represents one of the sort of things that my hubby does that's so much fun:
"At least with men you know what you're getting. They rarely play head games like women do."
Oh boy, the Feminazi's are gwan gitcha fer that'n ;)
Time to put my contacts in! See 215 above; I meant to ping you.
This is the reality, feminists always fall back on men are intimidated by powerful women... Not remotely true.. power is very sexy. What men want nothing to do with, is not women who are powerful, but women who are self centered and insane...
I adore powerful women who are women.... I have utter distaste for powerful women who act like men.
He considers himself lucky, and I know I'm lucky to have him
wow....
That's positively the best post on Feminism I have ever read.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.