The Backlash! - January 1995

• Very few feminist extremists or leftist women would not jump at the chance to marry Rush Limbaugh.

• As a conservative libertarian, I hate to say this, but with the work environment becoming increasingly hostile toward men, has the time come for all men -- from the lowest office administrator to the most senior engineer -- to take another look at labor unions? Without union contracts to protect us from the vagaries of the pop-feminist agenda, we're sitting ducks.

• One problem is, most men are "willing to fight to the death to protect your right to freedom of speech," while most pop-feminists are willing to fight unto your death to protect women's right to restrict men's freedom of speech.

• The worst of the backlash against feminist extremism will not originate with men.

• Beware feminist executives who say they don't believe in authoritarian hierarchies; they're lying.

• Pop-feminists complain about the "double standard" that makes it okay for young men to "sow their wild oats," but not okay for women. What these ideologues don't "get" is that for most men, the idea of being a "stud" represents a fantasy, not an aspiration. Ironically, these ideologues reveal just how obsessed they are with sex by demanding a society in which women have the right to have their erotic "needs" fulfilled.

• Apologists for Naomi Wolf's assertion, in The Beauty Myth, that thousands of girls are dying from anorexia nervosa, say that she at least brought to light a serious problem. That her exaggeration is excused for this reason. All right, and what about the fact that thousands of boys are also dying from using anabolic steroids?

• Should responsible men have to pay when irresponsible women play?

• Pop-feminists say it's not who spends the money that signifies who has the power, but who controls the means of production. Okay, there's some truth to that. But who controls those who control the means of production? If consumers don't buy, the controllers lose control. Most consumer dollars are spent by women, therefore ...

• If women deserve respect, then men deserve sex. Respect, like sex, has to be earned or granted. Neither one is an automatic right.

• Stop subsidizing the "liberated" life style, and conservative behaviors will be the norm. It is not necessary to legislate conservatism.

• On the Internet, recently, the subject was domestic violence. When I pointed out that according to the American Humane Society, during the past 10 years women perpetrated more than 60 percent of the child abuse in the U.S., a pop- feminist responded that by taking the number of hours of contact with children each parent averages, men had higher rates of abuse per hour than women, and are therefore still more violent. Amazing! Even when women commit more, they commit less. (Just don't tell their victims!)

• During the past several years, I have noticed a trend in office behavior: while women are becoming more assertive, sometimes even bawdy, men are becoming almost timid. Many say this is because men fear strong women, but just the opposite is true -- men fear a melieu that caters to hypersensitive, female wimps.

• Many films and feminists call men who see women as "the mother of my children" sexist. Is it any wonder a growing number of men are no longer willing to shoulder the responsibility of a family -- who wants to be sexist?

• Pundits see the numbers that indicate more than 60 percent of male voters voted republican, and attribute this to the state of the economy (which, for the middle class, has been problematic at best since the '70s). They're missing how, more and more, men feel their trust and good intentions have been betrayed and maliciously maligned by a polity that dehumanizes and disrespects men.

• The current anti-male climate is absurd. When confronted by the absurd, sometimes the best thing to do is laugh.

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