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let me make it simple for you.
men suffer, women suffer.
sometime ago, women decided to go for broke and attack all men for all the world's problems.
This is called FEMINISM. It is merely the latest attempt for women to get more something for nothing from men.
nevermind all the centuries of interaction between the sexes, the joint decisions made, the biology both sexes are strapped to, the sacrifices both sexes make.
The new religion was men bad, women good.
SO
it is not enough for men to be balanced in terms of how men view the world, as you seem to act (really, you seem more apologetic towards women than anything). NO, that is NOT enough.
For one thing, the pendulum has swung too far towards women ansdaway from men.
For another thing, men already had an uphill battle in the first place convincing women that we are not all supermen who all own companies and have billions of dollars in each of our personal bank accounts.
In other words, WE ARE HUMAN, WE ARE VULNERABLE, WE HURT.
Feminism pressed men further into the corner and told us to shut up. THEY WILL DECIDE FOR US WHAT WE ARE GUILTY OF, WHAT WE ARE TO THINK, FEEL, DO.
How we will REPAY women for perceived and made up grievances.
This, of course, is BULLSHIT.
But this is what society has become.
To compensate for this distortion women have FOMENTED onto society, men need to overcompensate, men need to create a new language describing our concerns, problems, issues, men need to generate new grievances of our own (grievances based on some of the same human rights issues women fling up into our faces, ironically, but which women seem deaf and dumb at also applying to men)
I DO treat the whole play field as a ZERO SUM GAME.
I consider women and feminists VERY SMART, and since they think of it as a zero sum game, I assume they might be onto something.
If I erxaggerate, it is to make a point. If I generalize, it is to show the patterns underlying things rather than having me sink into minutiae. WE can all assume there is a variety of cases out there.
Feminists and women were never forced to look at things on a detailed level and to break out all conditions, I do not see why men should have to EITHER.
You can act chivalrous all you want and put your jacket down into the puddle to have your girlie be nice and dry.
I do not feel obligated to.
I have already decided men love women MORE than women love men on average.
I have already decided men are fair and chivalrous and women just spit at it and at us and shove it back in our faces, stomp on it, and turn it against us, laughing at how we can be shcuh chumps.
I do not care if you disagree with me.
I am pressing on until things begin to generate in the direction of men, until men begin to comprehend that they need to invent a new way of seeing themselves, their emotional needs, their expectations of how they should be treated by society and by women, their need to have a selfish interest in exposing and understanding their emotional and spiritual needs and why it should be important to men in the first place.
I have a much greater vision than you do, than, I suspect you could even imagine.
I see men as the whole, complete, magnificent, multifarious, complex,and infinite being that they are.
THAT WE ALLOW WOMEN TO INDULGE ABOUT THEMSELVES but that, curiously, we largely DENY ourselves as men.
We have no language to describe it, to way to comprehend the depth of the problem.
But I feel we men can and NEED to pry at that door until it opens up and yields a renaissance for all men.
You can be WITH me or you can stand in the way of me.
THESE ARE THE ONLY TWO CHOICES.
The way I see it now, you are just another bug in my way and in the way of ALL MEN to become much greater himan beings.
So, NO, it is not enough to see things the way you do, to be fair to women, TOO MANY MEN ALREADY ARE, to their own personal detriment.
and the women continue to laugh at people like YOU, while deep down they resent me, but they RESPECT ME.
If you are offended by Ms Clark-Flory's article about how good sex was for her personal growth,
Someone should have told me NOT Catholic prohibitions against unmarried sex or feminist blame shaming that you are a dog if you are a man who likes free sex.
NO, they should have told me to FAIL UP by having all the free and easy sex possible because it will be good for my personal growth.
fuck, now I know what I missed thanks to feminists and catholics.