Posted on 03/15/2017 11:58:14 AM PDT by beaversmom
In a comment that will no doubt outrage the feminist left, Paglia praised men for taking on the most dangerous jobs in society.
It is an absolute outrage how so many pampered, affluent, upper-middle-class professional women chronically spout snide anti-male feminist rhetoric, while they remain completely blind to the constant labor and sacrifices going on all around them as working-class men create and maintain the fabulous infrastructure that makes modern life possible in the Western world. Only a tiny number of women want to enter the trades where most of the nitty-gritty physical work is actually going on—plumbing, electricity, construction. Women have played virtually no role in the erection of those magnificent towers in every major city in the world. It’s men who operate the cranes or set the foundations or wash windows on the 85th floor. It’s men who troop out at 2:00 AM during an ice storm to restore power to neighborhoods where falling trees have brought down live wires. It’s men who mix the stinking, toxic cauldrons to spread steaming hot tar on city roofs. Last year in a nearby town, I drove by a huge, chaotic scene where emergency workers in hazmat suits were struggling with a giant pipe break, as raw sewage was pouring into the street. Of course all those workers up to their knees in a torrent of thick brown water were men! I’ve seen figures indicating that 92 per cent of people killed on the job are men—and it’s precisely because men are heroically doing most of the dangerous jobs in modern society.
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I kept my tv but I dumped modern comedy shows. The husband / father is always lazy and selfish and fat. He is a ball of estrogen in a lazy boy, basically, and given some supposedly funny lines to say. The wife / mother is always thin, smart, and clever.
Women want to see men with passions and drives (not only a sex drive but that too). I’m sure the bad guy in the show you saw had motivations and was attempting to achieve them!
Two very good documentaries on the history of logging to modern times for those that like to watch such things.
The Risky Life Of Lumberjack - World Documentary Films HD
How Logging Technology Works - TV Shows
If it’s easy to find that link, please post. Would love to watch it.
Sometimes I feel the same. But we are in America. We got Trump as our prez not Hillary. We got FR to vent. Life isn’t so bad. :)
See post #42.
I’m sure the bad guy in the show you saw had motivations and was attempting to achieve them!
And yeah, the comedies. Drove me nuts. It’s probably part of the reason my wife of 20 years ended up divorcing me. She had me take all of these “role of the man” type classes and they actually had an impact. As one FEMALE friend said, “she probably would have kept you if you had not stopped being her lap dog.”
Boy, did all that education help me in my current marriage of almost 20 years now. I’m a REAL man married to a REAL woman. If I ever want to get in touch with my feminine side, I reach for my wife. :-)
That is hilarious.
...and don’t forget those females who demand standards be lowered so they can qualify as police officers and firefighters, both typically male jobs. But once they get in, the vast majority are not physically able to handle the job so they either get “promoted” to Sgt or Lt so as to get them off the street, or they remain on the line and endanger the lives of their co-workers and the public they are sworn to protect!
Here is one of my favorite quotes, which would probably drive liberal women crazy (crazier?) because it is so true!
“It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that men do. This is a distortion and a travesty. Men have never sought to prove that they can do all the things women do. Why subject women to purely masculine criteria? Women can and ought to be judged by the criteria of femininity, for it is in their femininity that they participate in the human race. And femininity has its limitations. So has masculinity. That is what we’ve been talking about. To do this is not to do that. To be this is not to be that. To be a woman is not to be a man. To be married is not to be single - which may mean not to have a career. To marry this man is not to marry all the others. A choice is a limitation.” Elisabeth Elliot
I felt manlier just reading this.
Whenever I hear about men and women working together, I think of Alf and Ralph Monroe, the “painters.”
Same...lol.
Visualization and all that.
I wanna go out and cut down a big tree now.
Then have a big steak and a huge baked potato. ;)
Whenever I hear a woman say, “Being a mom is the hardest job there is.” I think, “Try roofing in Phoenix in July.”
Thank you for a great post.
Thank you for saying that. :)
Right!
Just watching a little bit of this:
Risk Takers - 104 - Forest Firefighters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp63nm_evf8
I’m sure there are some women that do this, but I feel pretty confident in saying the vast majority are men.
She is an actual “liberal” in the original sense of the word when liberal meant something good. When a liberal arts education opened your eyes to both sides of the argument. William f. Buckley was a liberal in that tradition as well.
I thought that was a picture of David Bowie.
Intellectual honesty, nicely done. It makes me sad to see the new generation of beta male snowflakes, joining in lockstep with radical left “feminists” to kill the masculinity that built modern civilization.
I like reading what she writes, and what she says. The problem is that she talks libertarian, and votes socialist.
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