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.
Keen observation.
Regardless, if you take women out of the equation (that is, only count the votes of men) Clinton would never have been elected.
Women overwhelmingly vote for the Democrat who promises to enshroud them in cradle-to-grave care, if not for themselves, then for the "less fortunate." This is a different mindset than men, who vote more Republican and in favor of limited gov't and individual freedom.
These are generalities, of course, based on statistics. But since women and men do not vote the same way, on average, introducing women to the electorate has brought about a profound change in this nation. One can argue that this has been for the better or the worse, but one first has to face the facts as they are.
SD
Actually, now that I think about it, the shirt with the girl dropping the boyfriend is equally as off putting as the girls wearing those shorts with the words stitched across the rear end. If I saw a woman my age wearing the shirt, there is automatically almost a ZERO chance I'd ever consider asking her out no matter how nice she turned out to be. Once I've seen her wearing something like that it's really hard to trust her when she tells me that she is, in fact, a nice girl.
Center for American Women and Politics - Rutgers
You were right about Clinton in 1992, as both men and women favored him. But by 1996, men had had enough of Clinton, while women favored his re-election. In both 2000 and 2004, women favored the Democrat candidate.
So my point was premature, but a valid one for the past three elections.
SD
Whups. Meant to ping you to my #343, but didn't. PIMF.
Well...age has alot to do with it....it would be very tacky for anyone over say...25 to wear that stuff. But I still think the tshirt is funny...
Woman charged with felony animal abuse
Thursday, July 27, 2006
An Oakland woman has been charged with felony animal abuse for killing a puppy by kicking it and slamming it on a sidewalk, authorities said Wednesday.
On Sunday, Bernadette Hutcherson, 19, kicked a 6-week-old yellow Labrador retriever on the 1700 block of 28th Avenue, causing it to flip over five times, police said. Hutcherson then picked it up and slammed it twice on the sidewalk, authorities said.
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AMEN
Does he stare at you a lot? : )
If there were a lot last night, maybe you're having population explosion similar to ours. We have a small pond on our acre and a larger small pond just beyond, but the frogs stay there and yell at us. There are a few wandering toads, but nothing like we had at our old place. Here, we mostly have larger predatory animals like fox, coyotes and hawks. Since they moved in, we have no more woodchucks (hooray!), no more rabbits, fewer squirrels and chipmunks. Plus, they seem to have had an affect on the deer population that roams the yard.
Did you grow up in my neighborhood?
Actually, there nine boys in mine, otherwise it was exactly like that. Some of the minor differences is I didn't outrun, I out-pedaled - we were all bikies (bicycles) and I was great at bat and could knock them over to the neighbors, plus a switch hitter who didn't know which way I was going to bat till I got up - experience which paid me back in high school softball.
I'm getting little ones over on hubby at every opportunity to keep him smiling. Laying off the biggies for a while, since the snap cap I threw at the aquarium scared him too much. LOL!
LOL. Deep breath. It's fine. Some of us HAVE heard that joke. Along with the Kicking the Dog one. You really want to cause trouble? Post Kitten Bonsai pictures.
I could argue that point with you based upon the mindset of many men oon this forum who seem to like more government control over individuals freedoms, but I'm not into arguing the point today.
But I thought we were the same person.............
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