Posted on 04/05/2002 7:02:59 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen
It's the sons of men and women who understand what's happening, who do manage to avoid the Monster, who will be the next generation's Men. In days of yore, 90+% of the sons would grow up like that. Nowadays, it's a much smaller percentage, and it will continue to shrink with every generation until the Collapse.
I'm almost glad to be single and not a father...
LOL!
Post of the Day.
That's for sure. Get'im good, AC. LOL!!!
Heh heh heh... I still remember what Father Baird, my 11th grade sociology teacher told us. I paraphrase, but only very so slightly:
"Women choose their mates in our society, and anybody who thinks it's the other way around isn't paying attention. When she picks you, you might think you have some say in the matter, but that's only an illusion. You won't have a chance. The same thing goes when she decides she wants children"I just hope she's a good woman, and that you go painlessly.
Now, baldness has nothing to do with repulsiveness, so don't take that the wrong way. However, I believe that is why the media uses it; an effort to sway people to that belief system.
However, baldness is not the overall problem. The disrespect of men is.
I've got to be honest about this, but in this day and time, I see young women as being just as, if not more immature than young men. This was my observation throughout college. I graduated a couple of years ago.
Several really good points.
Here's another: more than any other source, when the phrase "white male" or "white man" is used in a derogatory way, the source is a feminist----and usually a white woman.
The phrase "women and minorities" is stunning. Women are, after all, a statistical majority. And white women are as wealthy-or-not as white men.
Even so-called "conservatives" like our president embrace "the causes of women" in a misguided form of chivalry, not realizing that they're being used as pawns to further a class struggle painting women as an oppressed victim class, and men as an evil oppressor class. The Marxist left is still amazed at the inroads it continues to make in the guise of "feminism" after the unqualified failures it experienced with unionism and pacifism - not that it's abandoned those avenues.
Feminism is Marxism. And you're right, the only version thereof which has successfully achieved it's implementers aims...albeit at the cost of wrecking society.
Feminism waxes rhapsodic about destroying the Patriarchy. They're obsessed with it.
Patriarchy = Fatherhood.
Feminists seek a complete Matriarchy, and a repulsively lesboedipal one.
On the other side, as I type this, I'm watching the beautiful, brilliant, talented Christine Stolba on the O'Reilly Factor. She is defending men against the male-bashing endemic to Women's Studies. Now that is a classy lady.
She works with the Independent Women's Forum.
Pings to future related threads welcome.
I love that term! "Lesboedipal." Is this yours or is it actually a term listed in the language? I hadn't heard it before.
So I'm not the only one who coins political phrases. My contribution to this lexicon is politicalcorrectianity. Now, tell me I'm wrong in that term! ;-)
Good point. Since EEOC was created in the 1960's, the percentage of black men in middle management has decreased, while the percentage of white women has gone up.* I guess that why they put the "women" part of "women and minorities" first. It's a very interesting use of language that enables a privileged, wealthy majority to enjoy the entitlements of a so-called "disadvantaged" class. I can't think of a better example of Soviet style social welfare.
*I could not relocate the original source for this claim in the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Stats, from where my source took the data. However, according to the Year 2000 U.S. Statistical Abstract, "Labor Force, Employment and Earnings," since 1985, white women have increased their representation in the workforce from 30% to 34%, while black male representation has decreased from 8% to 6%. It's easy to see where liberal social engineering has really focused, and it ain't on minorities.
Women are generally responsible for most of the everyday shopping for a household - groceries, etc. - but women also tend to shop for fun much more than men do. The phrase "shop 'til you drop" is just not something that a man would say.
In my opinion, there are a lot of women out there with more disposable income than sense. Women who have something to occupy their minds - a career, hobby, politics, whatever - don't need to fill that vague emptiness with shopping and don't need to put down men to make themselves feel superior.
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Heinlein, I read someone say, should be a controlled substance. I read him at 11 and was irrevocably changed - I started to want to get an education, instead of just get done with school.
About the idea you were refuting - my dad is a great example. He's a computer person, but not a nerd. He works out, rough-houses with the boys, has time for all of us, reads, and does a hundred other things... the idea that he's not a real man because he is more adept with a computer than a hammer is laughable. How many of these construction workers do twenty-hours days for a week at a time just to get a job done on time? Judging by PENNdot, not many! How many work Christmas Eve? How many have to spend weeks away from their families on business trips? Different jobs take different skills.
Anyhow, thanks for defending whitecollar workers - and thanks for posting such a great quote!
Ah, yes, the Men Don't Have Free Will argument. Funny thing that, according to some, God seem to have only given free will to women. Men are helpless and only follow orders .... that way they cannever be personally responsible for their actions.
Now, what was all that talk about "masculinity". What masuculinity? The kind that excells at passing the buck and exempting themselves from personal responsibiltiy for their life choices?
Funny, I call that a weasel, not a man.
,,, really? At the end of the day, you're selling your labour. You have a committment to yourself, firstly, to be happy in what you do for a living. Remuneration levels are a close second. If you want the relative security of factory work, trading mental stimulation for mindless routine, go for it. The pay rarely indicates that's a smart decision. Should you wish to go it alone as a roofer, builder or plumber that will ensure a good degree of wasted time in pricing jobs which don't eventuate and debt chasing for some which do work out. I don't see it as a Village People fantasy like you do.
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