Posted on 10/03/2007 4:19:14 AM PDT by rollingthunder2006
“There’s nothing wrong with us guys, except everything.”
“You guys aren’t dumb rednecks like they say?”
Well, with fair and open-minded quotes like the ones above, along with the subtitle “The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man,” readers can easily discern just how slanted and biased Charlie LeDuff’s account of the direct sex is in US Guys. His subtitle, were it to be used in the context of women, would be tantamount to a hate crime. The author would never do that though because, as he admits in the Preface, “I hardly understand women.” No doubt he is right but also apparent is his gaudy ignorance of men.
The text is devoid of psychological revelation concerning males, but it does effectively illuminate the pervasive misandry endemic to our culture. Mr. LeDuff possesses as many negative assumptions about men as a Womyn’s Studies professor, and he gladly shares them throughout the narrative.
Consider the supposition that time spent brawling with a gang of bikers elucidates the reason “why the American man is so aggressive and angry.” It does…assuming one was already convinced of the fact beforehand. The person who is hungry for actual knowledge knows otherwise. Behaviors exhibited by belligerent derelicts cannot be extrapolated to the broader population. After all, deviants are, well, deviant. They are not the norm. The average male neither commits felonies nor scraps on a daily basis...
(Excerpt) Read more at mensnewsdaily.com ...
Excellent, superb article. Slices up PC like a scalpel.
The writer whom Mr. Chapin criticizes is one sick puppy to believe the things he believes. But he’ll always be welcome in the tony salons of Manhattan along with all his fellow liberal metrosexuals.
LeDuff’s another traumatized dodgeball victim. He’s still mad at us 30 years later.
“I hardly understand women.”
“Now, do you want 4 or eight lanes on that bridge?”
ping
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