Posted on 06/09/2018 3:29:29 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Why can’t we hate men?
by Suzanna Danuta Walters
Suzanna Danuta Walters, a professor of sociology and director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University, is the editor of the gender studies journal Signs.
It’s not that Eric Schneiderman (the now-former New York attorney general accused of abuse by multiple women) pushed me over the edge. My edge has been crossed for a long time, before President Trump, before Harvey Weinstein, before “mansplaining” and “incels.” Before live-streaming sexual assaults and red pill men’s groups and rape camps as a tool of war and the deadening banality of male prerogative.
Seen in this indisputably true context, it seems logical to hate men. I can’t lie, I’ve always had a soft spot for the radical feminist smackdown, for naming the problem in no uncertain terms. I’ve rankled at the “but we don’t hate men” protestations of generations of would-be feminists and found the “men are not the problem, this system is” obfuscation too precious by half.
But, of course, the criticisms of this blanket condemnation of men — from transnational feminists who decry such glib universalism to U.S. women of color who demand an intersectional perspective — are mostly on the mark. These critics rightly insist on an analysis of male power as institutional, not narrowly personal or individual or biologically based in male bodies. Growing movements to challenge a masculinity built on domination and violence and to engage boys and men in feminism are both gratifying and necessary. Please continue.
But this recognition of the complexity of male domination (how different it can be in different parts of the world, how racism shapes it) should not — must not — mean we forget some universal facts.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Step away from the power. We got this.
Sure you do. Let me know when you can change your own flat tire, then MAYBE we can talk. Until then, STFU and let us drive.
Feminazis and various older women have hated men for a long time now. Seems every one that is unwanted by males is hated.
Does anyone actually care if this kind of woman hates men? I give her my permission to hate men as much as she can. No explanation necessary. Just go for it.
Bite me.
When feminists use words against women men wouldn’t dream of using in polite company, who’s a lady?
And the we’re ones allegedly using our male prerogative to put down women.
There are people who disrespect civility but they ain’t men.
The biggest perpetrators of female powerlessness have been feminists.
Take your hatred of men and shove it where the sun don’t shine.
She hates men because we would never hire anyone with a degree in “Gender Studies.”
My daughter in law signed up for one of these classes in collge. She didn’t make it through the first lecture before she hit the door. By the time the lecture was over she’d already dropped the class.
>>But this recognition of the complexity of male domination (how different it can be in different parts of the world, how racism shapes it)
Oh good. She checked the “racism” box too.
Now, in most truly male-dominated cultures (and modern western civilization is not one of them), there is only one race. Scratching my head over this one.
I love women, I just can’t afford the maintenance.
Me thinks someone has some serious unresolved daddy issues...
What about the other 57 genders? Ara they going to be left behind?
Suzanna,
You have done well with this column. It is a five pound bag and you have manage to put ten pounds in it! Congrats!
Sure they are. For the lezbollah and the pajama boys who willingly give up their shrunken testicles to people who hate them.
For real men, you skanks are nothing more than an ugly nuisance, and your "movement" died 20 years ago.
‘Why can’t we hate men?’
who say you can’t...? go for it, honey...
ROFL!!!!!
Looks a bit like Rachel Madcow!
You can if you like, but we have very effective ways of replying in kind.
F-off feminazi.
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