[ReaganÜberAlles]

"Indeed, men are absolutely indispensable right now, invisible as it is to most feminists, who seem blind to the infrastructure that makes their own work lives possible. It is overwhelmingly men who do the dirty, dangerous work of building roads, pouring concrete, laying bricks, tarring roofs, hanging electric wires, excavating natural gas and sewage lines, cutting and clearing trees, and bulldozing the landscape for housing developments. It is men who heft and weld the giant steel beams that frame our office buildings, and it is men who do the hair-raising work of insetting and sealing the finely tempered plate-glass windows of skyscrapers 50 stories tall."

[BenLurkin]

its a man’s world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCdc1YW001Q

[Beowulf9]

and that’s okay with me:)

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Camille Paglia: My Favorite Lesbian

[KJC1]

Who gave birth to you?

[OrangeHoof]

I’ve said it before and will say it again. Little boys gravitate to toys they can break apart and put back together. Give them a doll and they are just as likely to pull off its arms, legs and hair so they can see how it was built.

Little girls learn to manipulate. They start with dolls, then pets, then siblings then grandparents, parents and finally - the ultimate challenge - boys! There’s is a tougher task because what worked the last time doesn’t always work the next time whereas inanimate objects (guns, cars, balls) tend to follow natural laws.

Girls do not build bridges and bombs and skyscrapers. They manipulate the boys into doing that for them. And the boys make excellent scapegoats because anything that goes wrong was their fault, not the girls’.

In that way, girls are always going to need boys around. They need the slave labor. And boys are always going to need girls around because cuddling up with another guy just does nothing for the vast majority of us.

[aquila48]

I applaud Camille Paglia for her clear view of reality.

To her list of men’s accomplishments, she could also have added that it is overwhelmingly men who invent, design, and build the tall buildings, the large ships, the spaceships, the nuclear plants, the windmills, the solar panels, the busses ,the cars, the trains, the planes, the medical devices, the medicines, the procedures that save lives, the weapons that win wars. It is overwhelmingly men who make new scientific discoveries. Men are also the ones that predominatly invent and produce products that are strictly meant for women.

And whatever position of power women may have attained they can thank the laws that men passed that allowed women to rise up. If men as a group wanted they could quite easily retake whatever power they have conferred women.

In other words, at the end of the day women have what they have today because men consented.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

“In France, Italy, Spain, Latin America and Brazil, in contrast, many ambitious professional women seem to have found a formula for asserting power and authority in the workplace while still projecting sexual allure and even glamour.”

[CatherineofAragon]

Paglia speaks the simple truth. As a woman, I have no problem with that-—in fact, I embrace it. I love and respect men.

Now, would I take crap from a man? No way.....nor would I take it from a woman. I was “sexually harassed” once by a male coworker. I didn’t use it as an opportunity to play the victim nor scream for help from some feminist group. I handled it myself, quietly but very firmly, telling the man what the consequences of his behavior would be if it continued. We got along just fine after that.