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Posted on 01/22/2003 8:56:17 AM PST by GrandMoM
In the old movie, The Commancheros, the beautiful character called Pillar observed: “In every successful relationship, one party is dominate and the other is subservient.” By virtue of His right as Creator, God has decreed that men function as leaders - both in the home, and in the church (cf. 1 Cor. 11:3; Eph. 5:22-23; 1 Tim. 2:12ff).
There is no doubt that in the past many men have abused this relationship. Some (even among professed Christians) have mistreated women and degraded them shamefully. This hurtful disposition is not the fault of the Bible; it is a violation of biblical principles. The scriptural dogma regarding women rises head-and-shoulders above any culture of the antique world.
Today, we are seeing a militant backlash against men. Perhaps that is somewhat to be expected (though not justified). It is, though, a dangerous trend, for when the pendulum swings in one direction, it is likely to return to the opposite extreme.
A recent article in U.S. News & World Report by contributing editor John Leo issues a warning that women would be well advised to “back off” from the vicious anti-male mentality that has seized some of them. Leo illustrates this caution with several examples.
A famous TV newswoman recently told this joke at a fund-raising dinner.< A woman needed a brain transplant. Only two brains were available - a man’s for $5,000; a woman’s for $500. Why the price difference? “The woman’s was used.”
A popular greeting card says: “Men are always whining about how we suffocate them. If you can still hear them whining, you’re not pressing the pillow hard enough.”
Katie Couric was interviewing an abandoned bride on the Today Show. She asked the woman: “Have you thought about castration?”
The 3-M Company put out some Post-it notes with this imprinted message: “Men have only two faults: Everything they say, and everything they do.”
A new calendar is on the market featuring “men we love to hate.”
This attitude is being taught, to some extent, in the public schools. One feminist teacher was seen wearing a button saying: “So many men, so little intelligence.”
Young ladies are wearing T-shirts with the slogan: “Girls Rule.”
A rhyme, making the rounds in school, goes like this: “Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider; girls go to college to get more knowledge.”
These attitudes are quite contrary to the teaching of the Bible.
We will not have happy work places, contented homes, and fruitful congregations until men and women learn to respect one another. Certainly we don’t want to get so hyper-sensitive that we cannot tease one another in good taste. At the same time, we must convey genuine love and respect across the gender lines.
Today, we are seeing a militant backlash against men.
The good thing is, men don’t give a crap.
Y'all have a nice day!
Hey! The same thing happened to me! I have all the exact same "problems". Double dittos!
So?
Keep it up ladies, keep on bashing us males and soon you will find that nobody will have you.
Besides that, we still own almost everything !!! HA !!
I was commenting on the same thing last night. A recent commercial shows a family in the midst of rush of getting everyone out the door in the morning. The mother is very busy with the situation and the father is shown at the table reading the morning paper, oblivious to what is occurring around him. That's not the way it's done in my house.
Some companies are not stupid about it though. Dell, for instance, has been running some commercials about the "interns at Dell" and I've noticed that they've been very, very careful to poke fun at the ignorance of both the male and female interns. They've actually orchestrated the ads so they alternate between making fun of the girl and making fun of the primary guy.
There's also a ton of shows where the only person portrayed as having anything resembling a brain is a woman. All the men are, of course, stupid idiots who can't figure out anything for themselves.
The final surprise for me came last week when the Discovery Channel ran a "Difference Between The Sexes" "science" program which was very......strange.
The characterizations of the differences between the sexes was subtly sexist. One of the points I recall from the program was when they were discussing the changes that occur in the human body at puberty. After objectively describing the changes in girls, and going over some of the changes in men the narrator says "Another odd change in men is their vocal cords elongate and their voices drop".
And I'm sitting there thinking 'You know, if there are more men than women throughout history then it's NORMAL for a man's voice to change and ODD that women's voices don't drop.'
Of course, what I'm saying is as equally stupid as the original comment but the point is well taken: and these little characterizations of men being difference from women in a 'odd' way occurred throughout the program. It became pretty offensive.
And it's only going to get worse.
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