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"The WAR On Boys": Feminist Gloria Steinem Says, "We need to raise boys like we raise girls."
The Washington Post ^ | June 30, 2000 | Christina Hoff Sommers

Posted on 12/23/2001 12:04:37 AM PST by Dr. Octagon

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

The belief that boys are being wrongly "masculinized" is inspiring a movement to "construct boyhood" in ways that will render boys less competitive, more emotionally expressive, more nurturing

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The feminist assault on masculinity and men has now invaded the public schools, courtesy of the feminist-dominated National Education Association.

To read the rest of this article, which exposes how the feminist movement is using your sons to further their male-bashing agenda, please read the rest of the article at: The Washington Post

I hope that everyone will add their comments to this thread about the feminist assault on masculinity, and their NEA-endorsed efforts to use your sons to realize their agenda. I also hope that everyone will "ping" others to this thread, as it addresses an issue which is chronically buried by the mainstream press.

1 posted on 12/23/2001 12:04:37 AM PST by Dr. Octagon
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To: Dr. Octagon;proud2brc;mhgintn;GoodieD;glf;Harrison Bergeron;Senator Pardek;*culture_war...
The feminists are trying to use America's sons to enforce their own twisted gender ideology.

Hope y'all will come over and comment; and "ping" others over as well!

2 posted on 12/23/2001 12:07:39 AM PST by Dr. Octagon
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To: Dr. Octagon
American men have been psychologically neutered to the point where they are unable to function at anything. Increasing numbers are turning to homosexuality as a consequence. It's become the limit of their capability. Male children who fail to conform to feminist standards are pronounced maladjusted and are subdued into confomity with ritilin and other drugs. Curricula are feminine content oriented, feminine biased, and are oppressive to the natural aggressiveness of males.
3 posted on 12/23/2001 12:09:17 AM PST by RLK
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To: Dr. Octagon
Feminist Gloria Steinem Says, "We need to raise boys like we raise girls."

Why? ...So soccer moms can have soccer dads?

Gloria Steinem needs to get a life instead of trashing others.

4 posted on 12/23/2001 12:11:21 AM PST by Zon
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To: Dr. Octagon
Tell the bit@h to shut up. We're tired of her commie a$$ !
5 posted on 12/23/2001 12:11:35 AM PST by america-rules
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To: Dr. Octagon
Note that in times of crisis, women (in general) turn to the same aggressive, get-it-done REAL MEN that the feminists decry as "oppressive" and "maladjusted".

Can't have it both ways. Either men are protectors and heroes and breadwinners, or they are repressed, angry, abusive, and sexually twisted. Guess which type of male that feminism promotes?

If we raise boys as girly-men, we will have roving gangs everywhere, and a real AIDS pandemic. Not to mention all mothers will be single mothers.

6 posted on 12/23/2001 12:17:34 AM PST by petuniasevan
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To: Dr. Octagon
This will be democRat party platform within a year.
8 posted on 12/23/2001 12:24:27 AM PST by everclear
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To: Dr. Octagon
Leave it to a Lefty idiot like Steinem who never had a child to try to tell other people how to raise their own in such a hysterically wrongheaded manner.
9 posted on 12/23/2001 12:30:31 AM PST by Post Toasties
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Leave it to a Lefty idiot like Steinem who never had a child to try to tell other people how to raise their own in such a hysterically wrongheaded manner.

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According to her biographer, Gloria had her first abortion in spring of 1956. That's her experience with motherhood.

10 posted on 12/23/2001 12:35:11 AM PST by RLK
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To: innocentbystander
There is only one logical conclusion to this battle, eventually one philosophy will win, the other will die at the point of a gun.

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We will either be bound in servitude to it by a socialist state, or we will need to take up arms in revolt. Gun control is a way of immobilizing protest and revolt.

11 posted on 12/23/2001 12:38:28 AM PST by RLK
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Feminist Gloria Steinem Says, "We need to raise boys like we raise girls."

Why do we listen to people like this? it's has been obvious that this woman, "arg... phtew" hates men anyway and will do whatever she can to work at distroying them and their self esteem....And what wonderful backing she has from the Teachers unions...

12 posted on 12/23/2001 12:50:14 AM PST by .45MAN
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To: Dr. Octagon
It's June 30, 2000 for goodness' sake. Get over it!
13 posted on 12/23/2001 12:56:22 AM PST by Raleigh's Golden Mountaineer
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To: Dr. Octagon
We needed a warm, fuzzy, 'let's talk things out' type of president to respond to the attacks of 9/11. Maybe such a good person could have talked with bin Laden and found the root causes of his dislike of America and persuaded him to get into therapy.
14 posted on 12/23/2001 1:06:00 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Dr. Octagon
A quick search of the 'Net will get you all KINDS of 'boys' that are dressed like girls!
16 posted on 12/23/2001 1:16:08 AM PST by Elsie
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To: Elsie

Oops! That said RAISED, not DRESSED didn't it!?

;^)


17 posted on 12/23/2001 1:17:44 AM PST by Elsie
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To: Dr. Octagon
"We need to raise boys like we raise girls." I thought they already started that in San Francisco or was that Provincetown MA.
18 posted on 12/23/2001 1:19:28 AM PST by exmoor
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To: Dr. Octagon
It is impossible to make a boy like a girl.

Today there is the great belief in the power of humans to control and influence all things. Man can control nature and warm the planet. The nature of boys can be changed. Such talk goes against 8,000 years of history.

Boys will be boys and there is not a hell of a lot that Gloria Steinem can do about it. It is by no accident that men for most of history tended to treat woman as property. My Grandmothers were property. They could not vote for half their lives. If they had wealth or physical property it became their husbands on the day they married. That has at least a eight thousand years of history behind it. Today's equality has at most an 80 year history.

Today we have altered society in much of the West. But the West in terms of population is a small portion of the world. Two hundred years ago 99 percent of the population married someone who as born and raised within three miles of where they were born and raised. That is no longer true.

Tomorrow as the racial barriers fall people will marry partners born on the other side of the world. Think of it. American girls will compete for husbands with girls from lands where it is legal to kill a wife. In most of these backward nations, any American will be considered filthy rich. As women their emerge from total bondage they will be very attracted to the rich American. Men in America and the west will not be attracted to dominate American girls. Think a moment. When a mans choice is a girl who has been taught to worship her husband competes with a girl who has been taught to dominate her husband, which does the potential husband chose to marry?

The National Education association may very well mold American boys and girls, but they can not mold females outside the USA. They can tell him that his role is subservient, but his view will change as soon as he finds out he has other choices. And American boys will have choices.

American troops who were stationed in Japan after WWII were attracted to Japanese girls, our mobile men of the 21st century will be attracted girls who are raised to believe in more traditional role.

The market for goods is rapidly becoming a world wide market. The market for spouses is on the road to being the same world market. That is not a good market for American girls. They will be reduced to buying themselves a very poor foreign boy who will sell himself for the dominate ladies money.

The 21st century will indeed be a whole new ball game. It will just not be the game the Steinems envision.

19 posted on 12/23/2001 1:27:40 AM PST by Common Tator
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they already raise guys like girls...take bill clinton and al gore..thats about as girlish as you can get

i could start in on hillary's but i dont want to get in trouble :OP

20 posted on 12/23/2001 1:30:20 AM PST by MetalHeadConservative35
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