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 try to learn how to do "guy things" and am trying to teach my daughter the same. Just in case there isn't a man around at the time. At the same time, I am not an idiot. If something is to heavy or too high for me to get, I would rather sweetly ask a man to help me, rather than kill myself.
She's 110lbs, 5'2", and would rather talk cars, than make-up. She also knits, sews, and irons my clothes(I do most of the cooking, and I still haven't gotten her to mow the grass!!!).
I asked, but she says she has me properly trained, why should she change anything?
Well, I figure it accidentally got mixed up with something other than another emotion / feeling and that thing being called: reality.
So, once 'reality' became mixed with the perceived equality issue, then a new color was formed.
Then, there was a mad rush to apply multiple coats of the new and glittering 'equalities of the sexes' color everywhere as fast as possible with no regards to effect on men, or families, or society in general. Simply complete disregard for anything of value that may be standing near by, or better yet, relationship foundation basics between the sexes was simply tossed to the heap. Something 'NEW' was needed. Emotional satisfaction became the paramount underlying goal of the Feminazis!
And quickly time started to go by and then, the 'reality base' of the new fancy, glittery 'equality of the sexes' color began to 'bleed through' to the surface of society.
Now, there's an awfully confusing color in American society that many now, want to change. However, there's no quick fix stain remover to remove these 'coats of societal stains', or KILS over that that has dried. It's just gonna take some common sense, time, patience, hope, nature, and good ol' fashioned persistent elbow grease to remove that confusing color.
In the meantime, it's still OK to confuse our children even more with the continued promotion of perversions like the GAY mentality, Feminazis, eco-terrorism, injustices in family courts, socialism, anti-God everything, don't ever offend anyone PC mentalities, Hollywood porn, violent video games, porn on cable and satellite, outcome based education, etc., etc.
And we wonder why there's problems in society?
A good way to get a woman to let men be gentleman. Have a lady from the older generation wallop a lady who tries to open her own door. My husband's ex-stepmom did that to me 11 and a half years ago and I still can feel it. But, I rarely open my own doors anymore.
Andrea Yates --- not guilty
The Devil made me do it!
Who is Oprah?
Ahhh, men will never change! Actually I think men are just fine in general. It's women that play them as suckers that bother me. At least with men you know what you're getting. They rarely play head games like women do.
Hey, men, like myself sometimes have been to o thick headed when try to one-handedly move heavy things. Be careful!
You are illogical. What you wrote is like comparing a dump truck to a Rolls Royce. Did you falter in an attempt to be brief or does brevity rate high in your life?
Proverbs 21:9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 11:22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Proverbs 27:15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Proverbs 9:13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
And this is also true.
Proverbs 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
I didn't want to co-opt the opportunity. God made man. God made woman. In that order!
It's sad but after all this time, a lot of men still feel threatened by strong, intelligent women. And when those types feel threatened, it really brings out the ugly in them.
I'm so grateful that I grew up in a household with a strong, warm, self-assured father (28 year Navy aviator vet) and a strong, talented, intelligent mother who truly loved and respected each other.
I grew up thinking that that was the norm, only to discover as I went out into the world on my own how very lucky my parents were to have found each other. It seems it's actually quite a rarity to have a relationship like that.
Why are you so angry that you use language bordering on foul and end your exasperating diatribe by exclaiming you're going to kill a cat?
I think the fembats consider that a net gain...
Girls rule .. Boys drool
I know that. My husband put his back out for months, because he decided to help a friend move an Indian hyroglyph rock. His friend slipped and my husband caught the dolly they were pulling on reflex. He insisted that the next time his friend moved the rock was moving too, but he was not personally moving it.
Yep,
first was the prototype,
the second one was perfect ;)
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