Letters to the Editor
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Rose rambled right on into BS
"In order for wars to exist and thrive, women have to go to the wayside...In the United States, women threaten the longevity of wars."
So Rose, just who held a gun to the heads of Hillary Clinton, Diane Feinstein, Mary Landrieu, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins to vote for the AUMF in the Senate? How about the Democrats in the House? The female reports and pundits who backed this war? But then hard core feminists never let facts get in the way of some gratuitous male bashing.
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Thanks Robert Franklin
Consider it clarified.
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Cheery-picking
As cheeries go, she forgot to mention that for twenty years women had nipples. Now, they don't!
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@brightstar65
Oh Boo Hoo brightsexist, I feel so sorry for you - all these women and non-whites who are putting you down because they feel some sort of right to not be treated as second class citizens, and you, born with the almighty white man penis are forced to share a bed with these witches! How dare they! Seriously, if my words and other's are so neutering to your sensibilities than go lock yourself in a closet and don't talk to anyone because apparently any women or brown person who dare say boo to express ideas that challenge what you defend as your little white male supremacist happy land suddenly has created a victim in you. As I said it is apparent that people like you who benefit from the current state of affairs will fight tooth and nail to defend it. You project hate onto anything which in the slightest bit represent that which you don't agree with, women and the rights of brown people to not be treated like second class citizens - because of your lack of understanding and heart as a human being you would rather sit ignorantly in your s#%t stained diaper than change your way thinking. Most men I know don't take the knee jerk reaction that just because you fight for women and civil rights that you are against men and against white people - you give those men a bad rep and perpetuate the "me against them" myth of these issues that greedy politicians love to divide people over. Many men understand that women are their partners in life and in what should be a fight to better our communities for the good of everyone - our children, workers, the poor, animals, indigenous peoples, our families, etc. What is good for women is good for children, the family and get this, men too (would you really wish oppression on your mother, daughters, and sisters?). Remember you are putting down more than half the population with your insolence. Women and civil rights activists have been fighting for things like child care, education, health reforms and economic reform, workers rights, all of which are good for us, that is unless you are part of those ruling class of sycophants clamoring for more and more profiteering from wars, imperialism, and destructive economic policies. Can't you see that? Have you really bought into all that "me" society crap; every man, women, and child for his or herself, "if you're not with me you're against me". Sure sounds like it, bub. The idea that women who fight for rights and respect only seek to put down men and the family is total crap made up by insecure and self-hating men and women who think feminists are nothing more than the stereotypes you and the MSM would have us all believe in; boob-shaking madonnas and castrating lorena bobbits. Not all of what you think of as "feminists" speak for all women and certainly man-hating acts are NOT feminist acts or in any way in alignment with feminist ideals - so get that straight. Seriously, are you just some young prick whose embittered 'cause yer girl left you for a real man? Or are you the reincarnation of some oppressive slave driver - racist and women-hating to the core? Man-hating is just as much an act of oppression up there with racism and misogyny and the connection of male-hating with feminism is both unfortunate and false. So don't you dare say I or anyone else here hate men when you obviously don't know or care to know what feminine ideals or civil rights even represent. I never said that I agreed with Fauldi's book, I merely pointed out that when a women or non-white person writes about some ideas that the majority don't share or challenges the usual ways in which we think, they are immediately attacked or discredited - the number of defensive posts vs. serious discussion or consideration of the issues illustrate this point - The issue here is about the post 9/11 war mongering, fearful, cowboy glorifying era we have been witnessing - which I argue is part of a larger picture that we have been seeing through history - namely the politics of oppression and subjection; the desire of authoritarian rulers to control the rest of us. Maybe we're just seeing how deep the insecurity and self-hatred goes (from both men and women) but it seems that more of these comments are about attacking women and supposed "man-hating ways" rather than an enlightened discussion on the state of racism and sexism in our culture. As I said all forms of oppression are intertwined, violence toward children, the pillaging of the planet, the enslavement of other people based on race and the second class status of women throughout history. (apparently this was lost on you and your self-centered fear that I was emasculating you - boo hoo!) Like all oppression - these issues are about power and profits that those on top will fight tooth and nail to maintain. As it was also pointed out by another poster - that just because a body takes the form of a female or has darker skin doesn't mean that she or he is operating with feminine ideals, civil liberty or justice in mind. (I speak of the hillary's, condi's, pelosi's all in cahoots with the other war-mongering corporatists) And I don't expect you to understand or absorb any of what I or others have said, because I know you are rigid in your own dogma, but I repeat all these issues I mention are NOT about hating men, that is an excuse created by self-haters and insecure whiners which make both men and women look bad and only succeeds in dividing us all, this type of attitude fails to address the real monster behind the curtain.