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Why the Attack on Straight Men?
TownHall.com ^ | 9/10/03 | Gary W. Aldrich and Ashley N. Varner

Posted on 09/09/2003 11:43:22 PM PDT by kattracks

The war against American men has just gotten a lot more interesting. Consider the hyped-up success of Bravo’s new TV show, “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”.  One must wonder about the real objective behind a show that has as its premise to denigrate straight men for being what they are: men.

Radical women who celebrate “Queer Eye” enjoy telling the world all the things they wish they could change about males, such as their lack of appreciation for the cultural arts, their tendency to shy away from overt sentimentalism, their regular fashion faux pas, and their general untidiness.  Wives complain about their husbands, girlfriends about their boyfriends, and bitter single women about all men in general.

Instead of treating every complaint as a serious discovery needing immediate remedy, why can’t we just acknowledge that most feminists just like to complain?

Not only is this constant carping about men deemed acceptable, but we now have an entire television series devoted to “improving” men to coordinate with female desires.

The only venue deemed remotely appropriate for men to do the same to women is in a comedy act – because it’s not taken seriously. While one might argue that “Queer Eye” is an entertainment program, could we even imagine a situation where the tables are turned?

Imagine, ladies, a show giving straight men the green-light to train women not to do all the things that bug them. Would it be nearly as humorous?

On the show, perhaps titled “Making Women Tolerable”, the male hosts would get to:

Drag them to a boxing match or a car race. Women should learn to appreciate these exciting sporting events.

Take women camping and prove that it won’t kill them to not wash their hair for a couple days.

Train women to keep their mouths shut when the toilet seat is left up. If they want the seat down, they have arms, too.

Lay off the shopping for a week and make women acknowledge that there is a connection between the Visa card in their hand and the income their devoted mates bring home each week.

How successful would this show be? We’ll never know, because no producer would dare have their name attached to the project. Why is it that our society can launch an attack against male idiosyncrasies, but not the reverse?

Perhaps a better question to ask is: Why do we want to?

Why the assault on heterosexual men? Why can’t they be allowed to be “rough around the edges”?

Men who like to shop, enjoy the ballet, and know when to use merlot versus cabernet, are not typically the guys women date. No, these poor chaps are generally doomed to be the “close friends” in women’s lives. These men often lament of being stuck in the “friend” trap.

Women may complain about macho male tendencies, but they don’t croon over the “softies”. Likewise, men groan about “girly” attributes, but the girls who can hold their own during tackle football are usually just “one of the guys”. These women are also often passed over romantically. Why is this the case?

The answer is a complex one, probably being studied somewhere by a psychology group. However, a short explanation is this: heterosexual men and women are drawn to the differences that make them compliment one another.

Compliment is the key. There are inherent differences between the two sexes, regardless of radical feminists hell-bent on denying the truth.

Men and women who choose to accept and appreciate their differences are able to have successful relationships based on trust and mutual respect. Feminists who want to impose their will upon male behavior patterns show nothing but disrespect and screw things up for the rest of us.

Any self-respecting male should be offended at this kind of abuse, especially when it comes via guys whom women consider an extension of their close girlfriends.

Likewise, ladies who are secure in their gender should be equally offended at the presumption that they are supposed to prefer dating Woody Allen over John Wayne.

Let’s celebrate our genders’ differences, rather than try to erase them. Better yet, we should stop the assault on heterosexual males in its tracks.

Gary Aldrich is president and founder of The Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty, a TownHall.com member group.  His latest book, Thunder on the Left, makes a compelling case that today's Democratic Party has been hijacked by the hard left.

Ashley Varner is the Assistant Director of Communications and Programs at The Patrick Henry Center.

©2003 Gary W. Aldrich and Ashley N. Varner



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: feminism; homosexual; homosexualagenda; males; prisoners
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1 posted on 09/09/2003 11:43:22 PM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
Why the Attack on Straight Men?


Because Straight Men show a disturbing tendenancy not to vote for the DemocRATic Party.
2 posted on 09/09/2003 11:50:52 PM PDT by the lone wolf (Good Luck, and watch out for stobor.)
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To: kattracks
Why are these men whining over what a bunch of dykes and faggots are saying on TV? Why are they even listening to them?
3 posted on 09/09/2003 11:51:42 PM PDT by per loin
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To: per loin
Why are they even listening to them?....cause there's no sports on that night.
4 posted on 09/09/2003 11:58:06 PM PDT by GrandMoM ("What is impossible with men is possible with GOD -Luke 18:27)
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To: per loin
This is a good article. Chronicaling these things is more important than you think.

Divorce courts, televison, movies, racial groups and popular culture have put a bulls-eye on the white male, some more than others.

You might not think this means something important to you because you are established. It is very important for our sons and grandsons.
5 posted on 09/10/2003 12:08:33 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne
There is a difference between chronicaling such activities and whining about them.
6 posted on 09/10/2003 12:22:29 AM PDT by per loin
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To: per loin
Does whining bother you?
7 posted on 09/10/2003 12:33:32 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: Bonaparte
I find it repulsive, particularly in grown men.
8 posted on 09/10/2003 12:36:27 AM PDT by per loin
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To: per loin
I think helplessness is the most repulsive trait a man can have, it is even barely tolerated in women.
9 posted on 09/10/2003 12:40:25 AM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy
Yes. Particularly when it is so very voluntary.
10 posted on 09/10/2003 12:50:00 AM PDT by per loin
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To: kattracks
*perhaps called "Making Women Tolerable"*

The Man Show?
11 posted on 09/10/2003 12:53:38 AM PDT by ICX (FR's resident dumb puppy with big teeth)
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To: kattracks
It's because our d**** are bigger.

Oh, and we actually know how to use them properly.

Regards,

L

12 posted on 09/10/2003 12:58:26 AM PDT by Lurker ("First get the facts right. Later on you can distort them any way you please." Mark Twain)
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To: kattracks
What are the poofs gonna do - hit me with their purses?
13 posted on 09/10/2003 12:59:15 AM PDT by Hank Rearden (Dick Gephardt. Before he dicks you.)
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To: per loin
"I find it repulsive, particularly in grown men."

It offends your sense of how grown men should conduct themselves?

14 posted on 09/10/2003 2:03:07 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: kattracks
IMHO, "Queer Eye" is a very entertaining show.

I have no use for the current campaign by gays to ram their lifestyle down our throats. Homosexuality is never going to be "mainstream"; it's clearly marginal -- not that there's anything wrong with that.

However, it is also myopic to think that gay people do not have a significant and disproportional impact on arts and culture. One example: I doubt many Catholics would go Taliban on the Sistene Chapel just because Michaelangelo was gay.

If there is room enough in the Catholic Church for painters, I think we can find room in the USA for gays. Especially when the TV show is good.

15 posted on 09/10/2003 2:31:12 AM PDT by You Dirty Rats
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To: kattracks
The huge heterosexual differences is why they needed a special word for the union of the two: marriage.

A male and female united result in a unique, procreative, complementary compromise of managed differences.

16 posted on 09/10/2003 2:35:58 AM PDT by xzins (In the beginning was the Word.)
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To: kattracks
heterosexual men and women are drawn to the differences that make them compliment one another.

LOL! I think they mean complement, not "compliment"

17 posted on 09/10/2003 2:55:40 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: per loin
Why are these men whining over what a bunch of dykes and faggots are saying on TV? Why are they even listening to them? Men who watch this crap are closet gays getting a really cheap thrill.
18 posted on 09/10/2003 3:57:19 AM PDT by freebilly
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To: You Dirty Rats
Especially when the TV show is good.

1. Good TV show is an oxymoron.

2. Michelangelo produced timeless art that was not about his sexual orientation. This stuff is worse than drivel.

3. I'm sick of the media portraying homosexuality as culturally superior to heterosexuality. The "real" men who comprise this country are a little to busy building the future to spend much time worrying about what a "queer eye" thinks about the color of his curtains. If my wife tells me to put on a shirt or a pair of pants because they look good on me, fine. I'm not stupid enough to say no to the woman who sleeps with me. Everyone else can go to h*** in regards to my clothing choices. And any man who'd let a group of gay men give him a makeover is just a tad bit light in the loafers.....

19 posted on 09/10/2003 4:11:24 AM PDT by freebilly
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To: freebilly
Gee, freebilly, 4:10 am PST. You must be really bored to be writing about this garbage....
20 posted on 09/10/2003 4:13:11 AM PDT by freebilly
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