What Every Man Should Know About Feminist Issues

Lesbians

by Rod Van Mechelen

Copyright 1991, 1992 by Rod Van Mechelen

In Men and Marriage, George Gilder asserts the older a single woman is, the more likely she is to remain single. Countering this, pop-feminists assert women over 40 are not all that lonely and often find love. What they don't mention is that, increasingly, it's lesbian love:

The ultimate rejection is disinterest. Soon after age forty, the vast majority of women lose their sexual appeal to men. Their reign of sexual aristocracy over, they begin to find out what it's like to be sexually invisible, and there is little left for them in this respect than to seek solace in the arms of their own gender.

This tends to support Gilder's contention that women over forty find it more difficult to find heterosexual love. This difficulty is compounded by how women ruin their relationships.

Trouble in Paradise

Ignoring that most women refuse to initiate relationships, pop-feminists complain women don't marry the men they love most because men won't let them. But even lesbians don't "marry" the women they love most passionately. (Women & Love, St. Martin's Press mass market edition, 1989, Shere Hite, p 485) Lesbians employ all the same "distancing" and emotional-withholding techniques pop-feminists complain men use.

Their sexual passion withers just the same as it does between heterosexual couples, and communication diminishes. (Women & Love, St. Martin's Press mass market edition, 1989, Shere Hite, p 486) In fact, the pattern of alienation is identical whether the relationship is heterosexual or lesbian. Shere Hite recognizes this, but attempts to side-step the issue by suggesting the underlying culture is too different to draw a parallel. (Women & Love, St. Martin's Press mass market edition, 1989, Shere Hite, p 483 - 484)

If that is the case, however, then why are gay relationships generally free of the problems that plague heterosexual and lesbian relationships? Why are these problems characteristic only of relationships with women? Pop-feminists don't want to know. If women encounter the same problems regardless of the sex of their lover, then they can't blame all their relationship problems on men.

But they do try. Hite attempts to excuse all the similarities by suggesting lesbians are merely reflecting male behavior patterns. (Women & Love, St. Martin's Press mass market edition, 1989, Shere Hite, p 515) Even when they have nothing to do with men, pop-feminists blame men!

For a vivid portrait of the dynamics of lesbian and homosexual relationships, see Violoent Betrayal, by Claire M. Renzetti. Because Renzetti is rejected by the feminists, however, to make the point here, I rely exclusively on one of the most highly regarded extremists: Shere Hite.
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