Letters to the Editor
MerelyMortalMale
Published Letters: 539 Editor's Choice: 1
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Full Frontal Femifisting!
[Read the article: Tough titties]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Same old anti-male, anti-fact, illogical feminist shite.
Where to begin?
If a man points out feminism's essential hypocrisy, he's dismissed as "angry." Meanwhile Traister-like screeds are always deemed "energetic" and "scrappy." The message? Men have not legitimate grievances, especially not against feminism.
Rebecca asks: "Do you think it's fair that a guy will make more money doing the same job as you?"
Actually, women make less because they DON'T do the same jobs. Nor do they work over-time, for as many hours, or as many uninterrupted years. Women don't scramble to become cross-country truckers, test pilots, demolition experts, road builders or high-iron workers.
More ms-communication: "Does it piss you off and scare you when you find out about your friends getting raped?"
She doesn't, of course, ask women if they are angry or upset when males get mugged. Rape is one of the rarest, most lied about crimes. It's also the only one where the accuser is protected while the accused is attacked. Men are also its biggest victims, many males being raped in prison. That's deemed okay because, well, incarcerated women aren't raped as regularly, even by members of the opposite sex.
Another gem: "Do you ever feel like shit about your body?"
Men worry about expanding guts, balding heads, aging faces, etc. But because men are socialized (often by women!) to not talk about such things, feminists assume silence means no male problems. So much for females being more empathic.
Repackaging more tripe, Traister asks: "Do you ever feel like something is wrong with you because you don't fit into this bizarre ideal of what girls are supposed to be like?"
As if boys (drugged in class and committing more suicides) don't have equal issues!
This repackaged Faludi-in-Wolf's clothing continues: "On the top of my list is violence against women, and how almost expected it is that we're still having conversations about whether it's OK to rape someone because they're drunk."
MEN are the biggest victims of violence. Of course, selfish and sexist feminists focus only on women, lying in the process. Rebecca assumes men routinely rape drunk women. She never notes that women CHOOSE to get drunk and/or that subsequent sex is a muddled mess (the male often being drunk, too). How about telling women to stop getting hammered? How about saying drunken men are legally exempt from punishment, too?
As for equal reproductive rights, feminists fight that. They want choice for women, obligation for men.
Per feminism and "backlash"...the latter is merely the understandable reaction to being perpetually slapped by feminists who like to dish it out, but can't take it.
She asks, "how can I make a blanket judgment about all young women who do something? I also don't know that this boob-flashing thing is as pervasive as everyone thinks it is." Right. Showing tits is "savvy," while men looking at them is sexist. And while boob-flashing is deemed not pervasive, rape is everywhere.
Traister protests the "general idea...that women are children" yet wants the government or other Big Daddy to protect them and punish men. She wants women to act like bosses' daughters at company picnics, always getting home-runs while barely being able to hold the bat.
She learned about "rape schedules" in Women's Studies. Such programs teach the fear of men. Instead of compulsively wiping doors with germ-killers, modern girly-girls dread encounters with half the world. It's like they were taught in science fiction classes that Martians will invade at any moment.
Nothing new here. It's the same old anti-life, anti-intellectual, anti-male claptrap recycled from bitter, aged, lonely crones who couldn't get dates 40 years ago.
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The feminist "honesty gap"
[Read the article: Women earn less than men a year out of college]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The study was done by an association of American university WOMEN. That alone should raise a flag. The AAUW, after all, "proved" girls were short-changed in classrooms because boys were called on more. They omitted the fact that the boys were “called on” to be disciplined. Now that its boys who are short-changed, feminists don't give a hoot .
It’s like their biased focus on Title IX. They see it solely in terms of sports. The act itself, though, refers to “education programs.” So do feminists press for equal numbers of Men’s Studies programs, Men’s Centers, or mandatory courses on military history, male-created businesses, and fatherhood? Do they want equal funding for prostate cancer research? No. Feminism, after all, isn’t about equality. It’s about making life cushier for women, harder for men.
Do feminists care about the personal price men pay to be economically "aggressive"? No. They just want the benefits men get from doing so. The feelings of men who ask for raises and don't get them are of no concern to women’s groups. Like dating, they expect men to do the hard stuff: ice-breaking, making and paying for dates, etc. That men suffer and hurt when rejected is unimportant to them. That men learn, as a result, to negotiate better salaries DOES disturb them...but not enough to walk-the-walk men did.
Does the AAUW talk of the extra money men need to date equally or pay post-divorce costs?
No. It whines about women staying home with kids while men enjoy the luxury of digging coal miles underground. Surely the AAUW doesn’t want women dying equally in the military.
Predominantly white and female, the most pampered beings in history, feminists forever whine about ever-more petty things. Ensconced in weather-controlled high-rises built by males, they skew reality to make life itself seem unfair. And men's fault. Of course they expect males to keep doing all the dirty, dangerous jobs stoically and silently.
What happens, though, if men start demanding that women finally do their fair share?
What happens when guys treat gals equally in all areas, not just the cherry-picked portions feminists focus on?