Why Do Men Love War So Much? (Feminazi MEGA-BARF Alert!)

San Francisco Examiner ^ | 1/9/03 | Lani Silver

[MikalM]

Publication date: 01/09/2003

Why do men like war so much?

BY LANI SILVER
Special to The Examiner

    MEN SEEM TO BE out of control. They like war way too much.

    They are way too aggressive. My proof: 200 million people were murdered in the 20th century because of war and genocide. Since most decision-makers are men, and most soldiers are men, we need to reflect a little on this problem.

    I know, you want to yell out Indira Gandhi! Margaret Thatcher! Golda Meir! (Everyone gets so excited that they can name three women who fall into this war-mongering category. Can anyone name a fourth woman who belongs here?)

    If there is a global skirmish, men should learn to say "Let's talk," or "We're sorry," but no one ever says those things. They could also try saying "Let's compromise," but that doesn't happen, either.

    I feel bad for most men. Their communications skills are so low, they cannot seem to handle discussing things.

    Our system teaches males to be competitive and aggressive. Boys who don't like football are called sissies. Hierarchical qualities are instilled in all of us, but in men in particular. These feelings serve to keep us separate, rather than interconnected. Separateness fosters violence and brutality.

    Men in war report a kind of homo-erotic experience, a time men can bond with other men without looking like sissies. Some report that they get erections when killing. There seems to be a strong link between aggressiveness and sexuality that I don't pretend to understand. Perhaps war is exciting and dynamic.

    War is a global experience, an easy way to travel. It's exciting. And even if you lose and die, you are guaranteed an honorable death. There will be flags and medals for you.

    All of that pomp and circumstance is a way of feeling. It's just like football. It's something big and it's outside your family and, for many, the feeling for the unit is even more intense than for the family.

    I wish we could figure out how to stop men and countries and their aggressive tendencies.

    What can we do to help men? What can men do to help themselves? Men need to bring out their nurturing and compassionate sides, rather than their frightened side.

    After all, the purpose of life is to understand life and learn its glorious lessons. All life is precious. All opinions and ideas, precious. We need to understand our divine nature.

    We need to practice being less greedy. Americans have a demanding sense of consumerism; we're taught to step on, and now kill, the "little people."

    We've become masters at race wars; we're imbued with a fervor to kill people if they get in our way. Women give and give and give, and it's never enough. And men take and take and take, and it's never enough.

    We all need to help men move along. We need to create awareness, understanding and outlets for men. They need to develop more feelings for humanity. Men need to see themselves as humans.

    And women need to speak up. We need to stop propping up our men. Instead of saying "it's my turn to control the remote control," we put dinner on the table faster and try to explain away our husband's temper to our shaken children.

    If you have a penis, perhaps you should be required to take a course in aggression and compassion. And perhaps women need to take courses on co-dependence.

    We can bear our sadness by educating our public about hate and prejudice and we definitely should be analyzing the ways that we can help the world instead of destroying it.

    I am personally in a state of despair. I've been a political activist for 34 years, and it all seems to mean nothing these days. We have these nitwits in charge of our country and we are going off (again) to kill more people. We haven't learned anything.

    Comment: letters@examiner.com

    Lani Silver is a women's studies teacher and an oral historian.

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[jjm2111]

Dear Editors:

What a horrible article. Ms. Silver has raped the memory of the men who have given their lives for this country so she could spew her feminist vitriol in freedom. Ms. Silver must have never met an actual combat veteran; a man who spends months in the mud with no amentities; a man who spends weeks in a lifeboat after losing his ship; or a man who must jump from a burning plane. Ms. Silver must have never watched her best friend hold in his own intestines, or have three quarters of his skin burned away, or be tortured to death in some nameless POW camp. Ms. Silver must have never felt the fear of having to charge enemy fire.

Perhaps the author should make use of her oral history expertise and and speak with some real combat veterans in her area. Her notion that military men are all little boys with erections running around with their phallic guns might be dispelled. To characterize combat veterans in such a way is disgusting and abhorrent. It is one thing to disagree with a war and the leaders who perpetrate it. It is another matter entirely to characterize the men who pay for that war with their own blood as homo-erotic loons.

Shame on you for printing such garbage. Your newspaper denigrates the men who fought and died for this country.

Without respect,

My Real Name
LT, USNR

[BlueLancer]

"It's not so much the warring as the raping that we get a kick out of!
Hey, the looting and pillaging ain't too bad either."

HEDLEY LAMARR: Qualifications?
OUTLAW: Rape, murder, arson and rape.
HEDLEY LAMARR: You said rape twice.
OUTLAW: I like rape.
(Blazing Saddles)

[MikalM]

Awesome letter! I couldn't have done better myself.

[Enterprise]

I think it was Chiun, the Master of Sinanju, in the Remo Williams movie.

[jjm2111]

Choice quotes from Lani Silver:

"I am personally in a state of despair."

-AND-

"I'm very depressed."

She sounds like she's a candidate for Zoloft.

[Enterprise]

"It's a hogleg."

LOL!!!!

[jjm2111]

Thank you.

[jayef]

Ms. Silver:

Never have I read something so worthy . . . of being completely and utterly ignored. It must be an extraordinary little world you live in up in that ivory tower. I guess you didn't notice that the world is a dangerous place. I guess you missed that part where our country was viciously attacked resulting in thousands of deaths. Maybe you read about it? You know, the airplanes, the hijackers, the World Trade Center, the Pentagon? Ostensibly you were paying attention while all of that was going on, right?

Are you suggesting that we silly men shouldn't have a "hard on" for these murdering bastards now? Are you suggesting that we silly men should put our differences aside and trust that psychotic, megalomaniac, tyrranical, murderous dictators will not seek our utter destruction?

As you sit there in your tower, enjoying all of the freedoms that were paid for with the blood of us silly men, perhaps you could just give a tip of the hat and your sincerest thanks since you clearly have no idea what else to do.

Thank you,

jayef
Greenville, SC

[RoughDobermann]

You are correct, sir! I thought I was the only person who saw that movie, let alone remembers lines from it... :-)

[Erasmus]

Say, can you spare an asbestos umbrella? ;^)

Men are from Mars.

Wymyn are from that-hot-little-planet-that-orbits-its-star-every-29-hours.

[philosofy123]

The girly-man type become democrats! :-)

[MikalM]

"I am personally in a state of despair."
"I'm very depressed."

Which is all you really need to know. To professional victims like Lani Silver, feelings trump logic, decency, reason, common sense, and any sort of realistic view of human history or nature. People like this believe the entire human race has to act as their own personal support group.

[Jim Noble]

>>Why do men like war so much?<<

Because victory makes women open their legs.

[bray]

Than Lani would "love" HilaRat! The good thing about femichicks is that they may breed but they do not reproduce. Darwin is right about some things.

Pray for W and the Truth

[jjm2111]

Can you imagine the sort of man that someone like Ms. Silver would be attracted to (if she's attracted to men at all).

The guy would have to be a wimpering, simpering, ninny who would be challenged by lifting 35 lbs or climbing two flights of stairs.

[MikalM]

I live in Oakland (just south of Berserkley), so I've seen many women who think and talk exactly like this. The straight ones tend to go for men of two kinds:

1) The whimpering, simpering "sensitive New Age guys" you mentioned; or

2) The most brutal, Neanderthalian, d**k-led mouth-breathers imaginable. Which makes sense, as the whole Men=Killers attitude usually is a not-too-well-concealed rape/domination fantasy needing to be acted out in a relationship.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I've been a political activist for 34 years...apparently we haven't learned anything.

Not only have you not learned anything, you've blown your chance to have a normal family due to your crazy ideas while encouraging others likewise and dragging down our country.

Bet you wish you had been normal.

[goodnesswins]

HOPE you sent that letter....

[goodnesswins]

"Men need to see themselves as humans."

They do, you idiot. That's why they go to WAR...to beat the living &#&$^(&% out of those who would kill THEM. (And, to protect the weak, like YOU.)

[Bonaparte]

"I know, you want to yell out Indira Gandhi! Margaret Thatcher! Golda Meir! (Everyone gets so excited that they can name three women who fall into this war-mongering category. Can anyone name a fourth woman who belongs here?)"

This woman's ignorance surpasses belief. If asked (please don't), I could name a hundred women rulers who enthusiastically went to war. Elizabeth I comes to mind. Then there was Cleopatra, who went to war against her own brother's army, then went to war against Octavian as an ally of Antony. And who can forget Catherine the Great? Apparently, Lani Silver can, assuming she ever even heard of this war-mongering empress.

How about Artemisia, who allied her forces with Xerxes at Salamis simply because she detested the other side, not because she had to embroil herself in this conflict (see Herodotus). Zenobia, the "warrior queen" of the 3rd century AD had a lust for war that is well documented. In the 6th century AD, we have the exceptionally brutal and pugnacious Visigoth queen, Brunhilde, who started a war that dragged on for 40 years. There are soooo many more, and every last century is represented right up to the 20th C. The 16th and 17th centuries are simply littered with warring female rulers!

Now, why am I not surprised that the editors of the SF Examiner have no knowledge of history at all?