We were keeping the same secret from each other!
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.
“Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.”
Pure unadulterated stupidity in two short sentences.
Amazing lack of clarity.
Well said.
Mom was just about the only woman in my life growing up and she was raised by her father, a widower. I learned how to work on cars, do carpentry and all sorts of neat stuff I wouldn't have, given too much pink.
But there are a lot of men who don't like that in a woman. Maybe they are the insecure ones, but they portray it with rage and that's what pisses me off.
ok .. I read the article .. I don't like Feminists
But for the record .. I can fix my own car
I even know how to change the tires and the oil :0)
Oh, do tell, sweety.
They feel inferior around todays woman because we aren't giggly, stupid and slaves ...as in the old days.
Uh huh. Can you tell me when, in Western culture, women were ever "slaves?" And, while in no wise "stupid," women are still "giggly."
We are equals...
No one says differently.
and don't have to Obey anymore.
Yeah. Men hate that sort of thing, huh?
So you seek that in other cultures now.
Huh?
If you ever decide to trade her in...
Gender relates to grammar, not human sex. What is actually meant is a fuss about the equality of male and female humans.
Men and women are not equals, have never been equals, nor where they ever intended to be equals. Men are women were intended to be physically and mentally complementary; not equal. Men and women complete each other.
Ah -- the trick ladies, is to let them THINK they control us. We know better. We are the NECK! BWAAAAAHAHAHAHA!
LOL .. you're asking for trouble with that post
They weren't supposed to know about that!
Oh, we figured that out eons ago.
We just didn't let you in on it. ;0)
ONCE my dear hubby made a wise crack about me staying home
I told him that we could switch places and I go to work instead of him
That's when he broke down and said he wasn't' strong enough to handle it ... *L*
We were keeping the same secret from each other!
>>On that note, I think I will go kill a kitten.
Just don't put it in your chorizo.
It's true...although I often see that phrase misused by certain feminists to describe their own feelings of martyrdom, when the situation could more accurately be characterized as "a lot of men avoid talking to aggressive, insecure, spoiled brats." ;)
Other cultures still teach women to respect men. Western culture freed women from the oppression of the eastern patriarchy, but sadly many women see this as a license to trample men in the Western world. So, some men look to the Eastern cultures just to get treated properly.
My office is about 50-50. The women are constantly at each other's throats. They worry about so much crap that they don't have time to get any work done.
This has got to be the greatest unintentionally funny line ever written.
If you are looking to raise a family and the woman you are with doesn't value family more than career... move along.
Sorry, but once you have kids, they come first... and I don't care, if you make more $$, fine I'll gladly stay home and do the Mr. Mom thing... if the guy does, you become a housewife.
If there is something wired differently in your makeup that the above statement comes across to you as sexist, borish, ignorant or otherwise.. you definately should not be having kids.
If you find investing your talents and energies into raising the next generation and your own offspring as a waste, your priorities are very out of whack as far as I'm concerned.
I don't personally care about feminists in general, as they are just spiteful angry people that are fun to mock and laugh at. I intentionally get them going, just to see how far those veins in their forheads can throb out.. and then when they are that crecendo of their tyrades I just look them in the eye, smile and say, you know.. "if you dressed a little less frumpish, you'd be able to find a man." Or something else along those lines... >:)
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