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.
You do have a nasty streak, don't you?
In addition to putting words in others' mouths.
Yes, cute. Because it describes EXACTLY the mental perspective of the nutcase feminists.
Hey - I resemble that remark...........I can't help the fact I'm 5'10 and 125 pounds.......my mother is taller and I outweigh her. I've never been on a diet, other than in an attempt to gain weight, in my life.
I've alway thought the 3 Stooges clips were an excellent overall satirical portrayal, though slap stick comedy, of men with respect to our incessant desires (money, women, food), inherent pride, camaraderie, inherent stupidity, a streak of boyish meanness, often simple srew-ups, etc. I still laugh at those oldies to this day. The Stooges and coffee is a neat way to let the sun come up on a Saturday morning.
I've always said, Find a woman who can laugh at the Stooges, and you've found one that truly appreciates what men are and can be.
I'll have to check out your link when I get home........I'm running late as it is, but was hoping hubby and child would be home from the Pony swim on Chincoteague before i left for work.
Talk to you later!!!!
Those uglies don't scare me! Anyway, it's the truth. Not all women are like that but a heck of a lot of them are. For example, Freeper women are, from my experience, very classy intelligent women. Too bad there aren't more like em out there.
A LOT of women I've known are backstabbers and I take great pleasure in knowing that someday, it'll all come back to them. In the end they'll just wind up as bitter old hags!
At the time he told me this she was just getting her license back from a suspension involving 135 in a 55 zone + 17 fix-it infractions...
I think men are wonderful and usually much easier to push around.
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That does not apply to this lady.
Ok, you ponged when you should've pinged. No problem. Have a great evening.
Yes, but good manners are simply a sign of respect for others.
I am no feminazi. However, my dad taught me survival skills. No, I'm not talking "in the desert/wilderness/etc.". I'm talking real-life. I had a hubby, I stayed home with my girls, and he left us. However, I have multiple college degrees (got them first, thank God) and had to fight to stay home with my children when I was married. But my dad's skills have come in better stead for me than my degrees. Ok...let's say EQUAL stead. I can't find a man to change my tire, fix my light switch, fix my leaking water line, change the oil, clear a stopped drain, wire in a new receiver for my garage door, etc...etc... I have to do it. And I have to work and had to work. I don't care if you call that equal or not. I don't care if you call it "liberated". I call it desperation and necessity. THere aren't many good men anymore for conservative women.
My girls are now in college and grad school. They are self-sufficient, wise, thrifty, hard-working women. They get done what they need to get done. They are looking for wise, conservative men to be a part of their lives, but they aren't willing to settle for second-best. And they are having a hard time finding any. So when one talks about "equality" and "opportunity" , one needs to see try to fill the others' shoes for a minute. Sometimes it's just basic survival, and there isn't an "equality" or "opportunity" involved.
And Danae, I blame the men for what has happened to the children as much as I do the women. I don't care what anyone says, they need to grab themselves up by the bootstraps and be men. We tell the black generations now the same thing. We need to practice what we preach. I know I'm preaching to the choir, here, but it galls me when women are blamed for the feminazi movement. Men should have grown some cajones. Period. And we need to quit assuming all women get married and have babies. They don't. They never have.
And oneself!
A nasty streak? Like when you said I'm not a human?
Have you looked up "equal" yet?
These threads always bring out the good guys! (and others)
I don't know if you read my self-explanation earlier in the thread, but I was raised amid boys & men, even mom was raised by her widower father. I didn't grow up clean and dressed in pink but brought home frogs and snakes and salamanders and played with boys till puberty changed things, but, oh the Three Stooges were my favorites!
We all played 3 Stooges outdoors all the time. We never broke any bones or noggins, but had a fabulous time growing up on the country.
Needless to say, I was into to all those tricks and still am, scaring the hell out of hubby with practical jokes on occasion and then laughing till we hurt.
equal
1. Having the same quantity, measure, or value as another.
Later, Gem!
Sugar, alot of them already ARE bitter old hags. The Freeperettes excluded.
I've met far too many of them :P
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