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.
Gosh, I have said that men should reclaim their stones for years.
Gosh, I have said that men should reclaim their stones for years.
At least he'll know who & what he is.
If you are a male, you are guilty.
Adam was hanging around the garden of Eden feeling very lonely.
So, God asked him, "What's wrong with you?"
Adam said he didn't have anyone to talk to.
God said that He was going to make Adam a companion and that it would be a woman.
He said, "This pretty lady will gather food for you, she will cook for you, and when you discover clothing, she will wash it for you.
She will always agree with every decision you make and she will not nag you, and will always be the first to admit she was wrong when you've had a disagreement. She will praise you!
She will even bear your children, and never ask you to get up in the middle of the night to take care of them.
"She will NEVER have a headache and will freely give you love and passion whenever you need it."
Adam asked God, "What will a woman like this cost?"
God replied, "An arm and a leg."
Then Adam asked, "What can I get for a rib?"
Of course the rest is history......................
Good, save him for my daughter! Even in small ways, men are maligned. You'd think the only cancer out there was breast cancer, but men die of prostate cancer at almost equal rates, but it's never talked about. As a woman, I'm glad the breast cancer research is being done, but I also have a father, brothers & a husband that I would like see to a ripe old age.
And I also get sick of the way men are portrayed as idiots on t.v. & advertising too.
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.”
Cried? Cried?
Professor, heal thyself!
The latest being the commercial from Verizon(?) with the cool childless couple laughing at dads sporting silly fathers day ties, etc.
Although I understand its not considered 'manly' by some to complain, I hafta wonder where things will be when my son is my age.
Only a homo would write such a book.
(tongue firmly planted in cheek - with a side of seriousness to go)
yep, good enough to say it twice.
I have to watch TV commercials where mom & daughter are rolling their eyes over what an idiot dad is. TV shows always portray men as bumbling idiots who can't treat their women right because their stupid, ignorant male tendencies get in the way. At the end of the show, they have a good laugh because the woman appreciates the effort even though her man is an idiot who can't do anything right.
In custody hearings, the man is nothing more than a paycheck. It's automatically assumed that the woman can take better care of the kids. For a guy to have custody, the woman has to be dead or in jail.
In the workplace, men have to fight tooth-and-nail for promotion. A company has to justify not promoting a woman, and it better be airtight. If not, it's automatically sexual discrimination. Almost every profession is having a drive to increase women in management positions even though it means promoting people who are less competent (because the focus is no longer merit, it's now based on beating the bushes and wooing in somebody who doesn't have a penis). I know from personal experience that the military is putting blindingly incompetent women into leadership positions in order to fill the right squares and keep EEO off their ass.
ROTFLMAO
so true, 'specially on the commercials - men are always made out to be dorks, it seems.
It's why I don't watch TV, save for sci fi & war/action movies, and football games (Go JETS!!!!)
Glad you liked it. Rec'd that this morning from my 75 year old Indiana auntie. Of course, she suggested I email it to all the women I know, but this post seemed a good place to put it. :)
Lily
As for the feminazis, I despise them.
I am raising my boy to be politically active, mentally alert and "Old School Southern gentleman" If the feminists take offense to having a door opened for them though. Chivalry is NOT dead and my son will carry it into the future despite the raging radical femnazi's. He thinks its great to pi$$ them off.
Oh, and the real troglydytes are teh women who are NOT teaching their sons how to treat women. They are the first exposure they have to women, and I am deeply appalled at how negligent women are in teaching their sons how to respect women. Their poor father's have been forced into teaching them how to defend themselves against women, which is really really sad.
Sort of explains why violence against women is on the rise.
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