The Backlash! - February 1995

• If a ten-year-old boy were to somehow manage to get his 40-year-old baby- sitter drunk, and while under the influence she forced him to have sex with her, who is guilty? By the logic Mary Koss used in her Ms. magazine-sponsored study of college campus rape, he would be guilty of raping her. Yet, when the Seattle Times recently reported that a few years ago I asked a gender-reversed equivalent of the same question, a local leader of NOW called to say "I condone chopping off your fucking dick."

• When men sing "I'm down on bended knee" crying for forgiveness, it's romantic. When men write "I've had enough with pop-feminist cow droppings," it's whining.

• Bigotry is all mouth and no ears.

• Why is it that when pop-feminists say "challenge authority and existing paradigms," it turns into "impose our own authority and occupy existing paradigms"?

• The men pop-feminists hate most are innocent men of principle who have nothing to be ashamed of.

• According to a PBS program on battered women sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women, under the law a woman can accuse a man of being a batterer, force him out of the house and require him to pay maintenance. In essence, alimony without divorce. How convenient for women who just want to be "liberated."

• New Rage women complain that "history" is a sexist ploy of male scholars to maintain patriarchal power over women, and in response they have coined the term "herstory." By that reasoning, it should be obvious that "Hercules" was so-named to act as a subliminal message that even the strongest men are subject to Her will. In response, therefore, should we rewrite all appropriate mythology using the name "Hiscules"?

• "Diversity" is just another euphemism for following the herd.

• One common difference between male and female managers is, most female managers dress their subordinates down without building them back up.

• Pop-feminists grumble because there are few women in most boardrooms. Well, there aren't very many men, either.

• In the wake of publication of her nudie pictures in Penthouse, the question we need to ask about Paula Jones is, is she a typical woman?

• A while back, a journalist in Canada asked me if, now that women are averaging higher pay in Canada than men, is it time for feminists to close up shop and go home? No way! Pop-feminists have made such a mess of things, they should spend the next 30 years deprogramming all of their fanatics.

• Years ago there was a big stink in Seattle over how people from California were moving in and bidding up the price of real estate. Sex is a lot like that -- the more money women can get from other sources (sugardaddies, jobs provided through affirmative action and "diversity" programs), the more money and perquisites men have to bid to get a relationship. (So, tell me again why men obsesses about money and status?)

• When someone raises the issue of female domestic violence, pop-feminists often retort that this is not a significant problem because women inflict less injury than men. That size and strength matter. Does that mean that any man under 125 pounds and 5 foot five should be exempt?

• On the January 3, 1995, episode of the Tom Lifkus show, the discussion had to do with a school girl who was harassed to the point that her parents put her into a private school. One feminist caller complained that boys today have adopted a rape mentality far beyond anything experienced in the '50s or '60s. Let's see now, in The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf claimed that women are driven by unrealistically positive female stereotypes to self-destructive behaviors. Could the flip side of this be that boys today are simply responding to more than 25 years of pop-feminism's unrealistically negative male stereotypes?

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