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.
I think it's called The Lifetime Channel philosophy.
My wife put new rotors and pads on my lincoln yesterday. Today, she is changing the oil and filters. Get your own!
That passage has been a truth in my life!!
Ain't that just the truth!
If , not men can gather and make their own......
Nah, they have their own drama queens to deal with.
I think men are wonderful and usually much easier to get along with push around.
LOL! You mean we women should kill those icky spiders by our selves.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
It's the law of supply and demand!
There are good women and bad women - good men and bad men.
Good point. LOL
Whenever a man does something for me like hold a door, pull out a chair, help me with a coat, etc., I ALWAYS give him a big smile and say Thanks! I want to ENCOURAGE that behavior! He's not saying I'm some helpless idiot, he's simply showing respect!
Guys don't marry down. They just have a different definition of "down".
Many biologists have recognized that human men are larger than women so that they can defend themselves. /just kidding if my wife is around.
Yes, and William Makepeace Thackeray once wrote: "Even as those who hates the Irish most are the Irish, so too the worst enemy of women are women."
I think this shirt is funny!
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BY the way....what is a feminist? I real definition please. Is it a woman who doesn't want kids? A woman who wants equal pay? A woman who wants to work? A woman who wants to wear jeans? A woman who hates to cook?
And, thus, the Gender Battle continues to endure.
Long ago, I dated a feminist for many years (I also wonder why). The longer I was with her, the less I wanted to be with her. I got tired of her aggressiveness and her feminist-inspired pointless rants against men. It was a relief when we finally broke up.
Given that this is the attitude of too many of today's young women, it's no surprise to me that so many of today's young men prefer to have casual, platonic relationships with these women. Men get bashed enough in the media every day, who needs it at home?
Hold it, buster! Women are more than a butt and a pair of tatas! Geez, do you guys need a lap dance every time you do something nice? How 'bout a handshake and a thank you?
Now go smack yourself! :P
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