Posted on 09/20/2006 12:10:42 PM PDT by FreeManDC
Let's face it, we've been snookered.
They promised gender liberation, now we're becoming dependents of the Nanny State. They averred no fancy for special treatment, now we have affirmative action. They said they only wanted to give women a voice, now we've got speech codes. They claimed to be for gender equality, now boys are struggling just to keep up in school.
Why has it taken so long for us to catch on?
One of the tacit rules of the New Gender Order is that the opinions of men don't count. "If white men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are" was the remarkable admission once made by the most influential media mogul in the country, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr, owner and publisher of the New York Times.
Author Warren Farrell calls it the "lace curtain," the invisible hand of editorial censorship that throttles the First Amendment rights of half our nation's population.
It's like we claimed to be engaged in free and open debate, all the while holding one of the parties gagged, blind-folded, and hog-tied. Or if men were allowed to speak, it was made perfectly clear that they not say anything that might force the delicate gals to resort to smelling salts - remember l'affaire of Larry Summers?
But three weeks ago something snapped.
Michael Noer at Forbes.com wrote a column called "Don't Marry Career Women." It was an advice column for eligible businessmen thinking about making the plunge.
Predictably, the ladies reacted with well-rehearsed outrage, forcing Forbes to run a counterpoint by Elizabeth Corcoran, "Don't Marry a Lazy Man."
True, some of Noer's facts could be disputed. Maybe he didn't qualify his statements enough.
But Noer's article struck a deep chord with hard-working men whose liberated wives had come to look askance at anything that might remotely be called housework. And it resonated with the average Joes who put in long hours on the factory line, only to come home and learn that he was a member of the male oppressor class.
This time there would be no "Button up that lip, little man!" Within hours the Internet was buzzing over Noer's apostasy as thousands of men spoke out at Forbes.com, FreeRepublic.com, and other sites. All of a sudden, full-throated debate became fashionable.
Remember this line? "I'm as mad as hell and I won't take it anymore!" That rant won Peter Finch an Oscar for his role in the movie Network.
That pretty well sums up the attitude of many men and women who have become disgusted with feminist-driven, government-enforced intervention into the personal matters of private citizens.
For years, women like Christina Hoff Sommers, Wendy McElroy, Cathy Young, and Phyllis Schlafly have been speaking out against government intrusion disguised as female emancipation. Now their protest is ringing through the land.
Take Doug Richardson of Detroit. He was forced to pay more than $80,000 in child support, even after paternity tests proved the child was not his. Now he's waging a one-man campaign to expose the swindle and bring the malefactors to justice.
In North Dakota, Mitch Sanderson got fed up with the raw deal that fathers were getting in divorce court. So he started up the North Dakota Shared Parenting Initiative. Then he quit his day job and combed every hamlet and town in the state to get the required 13,000 signatures to land his shared custody bill on the November ballot.
Some guys are willing to put everything on the line.
Like John Murtari of Onondaga County, NY. Murtari owes more than $60,000 in child support, an amount he couldn't pay because the figure was calculated based on an income far higher than what he now earns. On July 31 he was sentenced to jail, triggering a hunger strike that caused him to lose 29 pounds in just nine days. As of this writing his situation remains precarious.
April 19, 1775, a rag-tag group of Minutemen waited in muffled silence at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Mass. Within minutes they were engulfed in a desperate fire-fight with the British regulars.
Soon the smoke cleared. That shot heard 'round the world marked the first battle of the American Revolutionary War. It was the first hard-fought step to freedom from government oppression.
Over 230 years later, state-sponsored tyranny has re-appeared in our midst. And once again, a group of uppity men are willing to risk their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor in the defense of justice and family.
Probably because they thought that's what you wanted. After all, they want your votes. They hope to get your votes by giving you what you want.
This reminds me how, just yesterday, I was yelling at the TV after it reminded me that you chicks won't stand for us subjecting POWs to "humiliation" or anything "demeaning."
This country is more feminized with each passing day.
Perhaps all us men are shrugging...like Atlas.
This country is more feminized with each passing day.
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Exactly....For several generations now, the boys have been reduced to wimpering cowards, thus growing up to be "French" style men.
Well, in short order, I bet these fems will be wishing they had real men back here. Islam has very little tolorance for women, much less ones with a male personality.
Who cares?
It's not about what women want, or think is reasonable. It's about what men think and the lives they want to live.
Well, in short order, I bet these fems will be wishing they had real men back here. Islam has very little tolorance for women, much less ones with a male personality.
Who cares?
It's not about what women want, or think is reasonable. It's about what men think and the lives they want to live.
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Who said Who Care?
And what was the rest of your statement suppose to mean?
What's funnier is - Noer cites no less than six different separate studies supporting his thesis, which represent thousands of women and couples, and Mrs. Concoran chimes in with six examples from her personal life.
Whe I was in the work force, you could do men's work if and only if you acted like one of the guys. Feminization is a lot like the coarsening of the culture. Who knew that raising wages would just mean more money spent on beer?
Whe I was in the work force, you could do men's work if and only if you acted like one of the guys. Feminization is a lot like the coarsening of the culture. Who knew that raising wages would just mean more money spent on beer?
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I'm not speaking about generalizations. I'm speaking more of the "Lower the Standards" to make the fems happy. In many instances, women can perform just as well if not better than men and vice/versa.
BUT
For example, I do NOT want a 100 pound female firefighter climbing thru my families 2nd stroy window if she can only lift 40 pounds and she happens to be already carrying 40 pounds of gear on her back. WHat is she going to do, talk with us until obviously stronger people show up? Or is it only the strong men that get put in the position of climbing thru burning buildings, yet the female wants the same pay?
I think I can safely say MOST people would want a very strong person to be climbing thru that window. Now if there is a woman that fits that bill, GREAT. But that is not the norm.
Same thing with the military, for some reason, it's ok that young men have to register for draft, but when it's mentioned that women should as well....well that's just insane.
Funny how it is a fit only when it is comfortable.
Something to think about -
No modern democrat has ever been elected president while winning a majority of the male vote. In other words, it's female voters who have given us fdr, jfk, carter & clinton.
It is a serious problem what has happened to fathers' rights and the dumbing-down of boys in school.
It means...that women started their "liberation" when they stopped defining themselves through the eyes of men. Men need to return the favor; I'll decide what kind of man I need to be.
IOW...I'll not order my life to meet some expectation or need of some woman, or any number of them. Men need to decide what they are about.
It means...that women started their "liberation" when they stopped defining themselves through the eyes of men. Men need to return the favor; I'll decide what kind of man I need to be.
IOW...I'll not order my life to meet some expectation or need of some woman, or any number of them. Men need to decide what they are about.
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Thank you for clarifying. I absolutely agree. In fact, the way you just explained it....was the best I have ever heard it done. Very nice and I will be using that. :)
I don't know why women would ever settle for merely being equal...
Men need to get on with living their lives, today. If we wait for women to have a BFO about terrorists or any number of things, it's too late...and it's the only life we have.
Well, thank you. I think that men are in a world of hurt if they're waiting for some gal, or some number of gals, or the entire gender to get clobbered with a clue-by-four.
Men need to get on with living their lives, today. If we wait for women to have a BFO about terrorists or any number of things, it's too late...and it's the only life we have.
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Amen to that.
BTW, the "clue-by-four" line is another MUST have. ROFLMAO
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