Well, that might be right, but have there been any studies made about the notion? 
Posted on 06/22/2005 11:11:17 AM PDT by bmweezer
The Semi-Declared War on Men Posted: June 22, 2005
The battle between the sexes has ceased being a battle and has quickly turned into a rout. With women the recipients of state sponsored advantages such as affirmative action, preferential treatment in the courts, and a public educational system uniquely sensitive to the needs of girls, men are like frogs in an aquarium where water is added incrementally at ever-increasing temperatures. The frogs only realize the danger just as they begin to boil to death. This is exact warning that Dr. Richard Hise gives us in his 2004 book, The War Against Men.
Its full title includes the secondary, Why Women are Winning and What Men Must Do If America is to Survive, and this is the approach the author takes within. He first outlines the problems of today and then gives suggestions as to what we should do about them. Dr. Hise is a professor of marketing at Texas A&M’s Mays Business School. This would not be a natural subject for a business professor to address, yet he wrote the book for highly passionate reasons. Indeed, the author “…cried when I read how our young sons are degraded in school through the feminization efforts espoused by and, unfortunately, implemented by the female dominated educational system.”
This is very much a work of scholarship. Dr. Hise has read just about everything he could get his hands on regarding radical feminism and the decline of men. The farther he got into his research, the more surprised and dismayed he became. He was shocked as to the extent in which contemporary society is biased against men. The clear message here is that war is being waged against us, and if we continue to stand down we will become serfs within our own country.
He leaves no stone, or troglodyte in the case of radical feminists, untipped in the pursuit of the truth. Most of The War on Men highlights the exact nature of our dhimitude in the United States. From the start he stresses that men and women are not the same, yet the desire of our social engineers is to feminize men and masculinize women. They have been most successful thus far. Dr. Hise surveys the available evidence and paints us a Guernica: women are now more sexually aggressive than ever before, in many cases they consciously attempt to look like men, they choose traditionally male professions, and copy male hobbies and interests. The androgenizing of women reduces male sexual desire as we inherently are attracted to the feminine. What is the overall effect of this process? The camaraderie and complementariness of the sexes is eliminated which is a major factor in our society’s decline.
Women are becoming dominant in the work place and within education as the rules of productivity have been altered to ensure their competitive advantage. In higher education, as most of us are already aware, the universities are devoted to fighting the “phallocracy” which means paranoia in regards to men. The author uncovers a horrifying piece of propaganda put out by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Women’s Studies Director. It demands that American universities make gender “part of all pertinent programs of institutional research,” and that all “curricula would be transformed according to guidance from an autonomous women’s studies site.” The “gender” that would be imposed would be exclusively female in its orientation. If such ideas were ever adopted, then a college education would be next to worthless. Dr. Hise wisely shares with his readers a list of the Top 10 most anti-male universities which is something that every prospective student should consult.
Most frightening of all is what’s happening in the courts where men are forced to pay for children they did not father, and thrown in jail should they not be able to come up with the amount of monthly funds arbitrarily determined by a judge. The case of Dr. Griffin is recounted where he was falsely accused of sodomizing a female patient after he refused to testify on her behalf in a suit she filed against her landlord. The judge barred the doctor from mentioning her past request of him, and also from mentioning her history of instigating frivolous lawsuits. He got 3-and-a-half-years before being acquitted on appeal.
As alluded to earlier, the book is not merely confined to outlining what is wrong with the system. Several recommendations are given for men to follow in the hopes of providing the boys of today with a future. Here are but a few:
1. Men, individually, must be proud of our achievements. We should not allow others to denigrate us.
2. Men must be informed as to what’s going on around us. Work and family cannot prevent us from following political events.
3. Avoid the mainstream media as the information they provide is too biased.
4. Men must take a more active role politically and make sure we vote in every election.
5. Men should fight for the elimination of anti-male legislation like the Violence Against Women Act.
6. We should use the Equal Protection Clause to protest anti-male practices like affirmative action.
Overall, I recommend the book but I must point out to the reader that I have some serious reservations regarding it. While I agree with all of the author’s major themes, there are some details that give one pause. First, Dr. Hise evokes the name of the Lord early and often in his defense of men. This certainly does not offend me, but it does make him a caricature of a religious rightist. The Bible may well be right and true, but it has long ceased to influence political opinion in America (at least for the majority of the population). Second, within some of his passages, Dr. Hise introduces occasional ideas or arguments that are frankly bizarre. I know of no other way of describing a comment like this one about Ritalin, “[t]here are some experts who claim that the drug will turn boys into homosexuals by the time they are 15 years old.” Whoever’s saying that should be called “an idiot” as opposed to an “expert.” Of course taking Ritalin will not result in one becoming a homosexual. Temporarily altering the work of the brain’s neurotransmitters is not going to change one’s sexual identity. An egregious tidbit like that can delegitimate his fine efforts elsewhere. Third, like other writers on this subject, he sometimes seems to confuse “women” with “radical feminists.” This is done inconsistently as in some places the division is clear while in others it is not. Other than these points, it is a book worthy of our time.
yeah amazing isn't it?? and I bet the ratio of women (in such a rush to get to work) leaving their little babies in SUV's to burn up is way higher than men, but you don't hear much about THAT except for "but she's so stressed, it's understandable"...BLECH!
Ping. Sound familiar?
Yep - people who place undue weight on stuff like this are just being victims.
TV commercials are just dumb - they consistently have been. My alltime fave, though, is this 75 second Ann-Marget commercial for ginger ale from 35+ years ago. I only recently discovered it and it is HOT!!! ;-)
later read/ping...
Yeah, thats what I thought until I became a father of a boy and a girl who have to grow up in the hash the friggen boomers have made of gender relations & society in general. Commercials are mere symptoms.
Ultimately it's up to each of them to find their own way.
I was born and raised in manhattan in the 1970s and 80s (key liberal glory years), attended a Jesuit High School where the teachers were much more liberal than the students, attended Vassar College for 4 years (freaky lib and as anti male as anyplace), and then law school (celebration of the victim mentality).
I turned out ok. The truth is that life becomes a lot better when you hold the people in your life to real standards and hold them accountable: reward their good behavior, punish their bad behavior.
What we as a culture have is too many people rewarding bad behavior then complaining about being an afterthought. It makes no sense, really.
Not to over-analyze this, but the man in that commercial received the camera phone as a "Father's Day" gift, so I'm pretty sure the couple isn't supposed to be childless.
I do share the original poster's disgust with the way men and fathers (especially white men) are being portrayed in commercials. I remind my daughter often that her mom and I aren't the bumbling nitwits that Disney and Nickelodeon would have her believe we are.
There's this constant argument about whether women who go out half naked are asking to be raped. Of course there is no excuse for raping them, but they're still asking for it.
Same here. It's never right for a bigger stronger man to beat up a woman, but if men are generally frustrated by the system in their dealings with women, a certain percentage are going to act out.
Not me of course. Though it is satisfying the way they go flying up against the wall when you belt them, as opposed to men, who just stand there and then hit you back. JUST KIDDING!
You are quite, quite correct. I sometimes wish I had recordings of what the family court services mediators did to My life, because people literally have no idea how we males are such automatic revenue-sources in their eyes -and good for nothing else. I was treated EXACTLY that way by the system, never mind that I had a great job and the mother was on welfare. All that meant was that there was an easy paper trail to ensure that payments were sent in a regular manner. Through all those years that I fought, it was for the right to see My child, never mind all the times when the mother got her knickers all knotted up and arbitrarily denied Me visitation, thereby forcing Me to get her served and back in court to rehash over the matter. On more than one occasion I requested that she be arrested for disobeying a court order so that I could see My child, and the answer was always the same: they would not arrest her, but would file a report so that I could take her back to court. Another six months at the very least before I could see My child again, and sometimes longer.
And people wonder why 'deadbeat dads' exist. Yes, the courts would do and see nothing at all where the mother was concerned, but if I missed a child-support payment the telephone would be ringing at My attorney's office with outright threats of incarceration and legal fees. An attorney whose fees I had to pay, but the mother was represented by an attorney appointed by the court -at no cost to her.
That's all I am saying.
I assumed the cool couple bought each other the phones. Anyway, call me thin skinned but I find it offensive that anyone would laught at a fathers day gift, regardless of how silly. I thought it was a stupid commercial.
Nothing out of the ordinary these days. I don't know what these ad agencies are thinking.
I think that you misunderstand this clearly. If a man stands up for himself he isn't a victim. Why shouldn't men stand up for themselves? The federal gov has no right to institute affirmative action against us. There's no reason men should not be treated equally. If we're being wronged, we should fight back.
I think that you misunderstand this clearly. If a man stands up for himself he isn't a victim. Why shouldn't men stand up for themselves? The federal gov has no right to institute affirmative action against us. There's no reason men should not be treated equally. If we're being wronged, we should fight back.
the mainstream newspapers and television are controlled by feminists who are trained in universities.
the austin unamerican stateswoman, as we call it, is a feminist paper. recently they editorialized that anny coulter's speech at the lbj library was "hate speech".
I think equality is what has gotten us into this mess. The levellers deserve ridicule, not plagiarism.
Well, that might be right, but have there been any studies made about the notion?
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