The Backlash! - March 1995

• What makes women think they deserve "nice guys"?

• Why is it that when representatives of NOW say, "I do believe men are the enemy," the mainstream media calls it liberation; but when men cry, "Not guilty!" they call it hatemongering?

• It's time for Affirmative Action in child custody. For the next 10 years, 60 percent of custody should go to men.

• Women did not give women the vote.

• For all the faults of the fifties, both women and men were willing to work together to fulfill their dreams. Today, it seems like most women want it all, they want it now, and they want it for free.

• Sociologists say that when a man buys a woman a meal, he has the power because "the one who pays controls." This ignores that because many men are raised believing women are intrinsically more valuable, men feel they have to pay just to be valued equally.

• Playboy magazine symbolizes man's desire to lead the modern woman's lifestyle.

• How can pop-feminists say women are equal to men, but men are not equal to women?

• Most women seem to enjoy complaining about "male arrogance." About how men think every girl should squeal with delight when some dufus deigns to show her some interest. The flip side is the arrogance of women who expect us to huff and crow ("strut, pout, put it out"?) to excite their interest.

• Men need visible power just to lead a decent life; women don't.

• If women knew half as much about men as they say they do, our quality of life would improve significantly.

• A powerless woman is considered oppressed; a powerless man is considered a wimp.

• Interesting, isn't it, how single women prefer "bad boys" until they start approaching 40 or become "single mothers"?

• The current welfare system -- which pays single mothers to go to school -- provides a means to subsidize their education through irresponsible behavior. Get pregnant, have a child without the father, and the government will pay your college tuition and day care. Another example of how men must pay when women play.

• Gays can't be controlled by women, and surveys indicate more and more women say they love gay men. What should this tell us about women? What kind of message does it convey to men?

• When Newt Gingrich proposed rebuilding the old boys and girls towns, the idea of taking children away from mothers who can't support them caused quite a fuss. Why? We already take the children from the father, why not the mother, too?

• Women get their needs fulfilled by acknowledging them; men get theirs fulfilled by denying them.

• Pop-feminists say statistics matter less than women's experiences. Their unexamined premise is that this is just a battle of viewpoints. The day most men agree with that, women will lose.

• Why is it that when a man is hurt or asserts himself, women in general, and pop-feminists in particular, call him "angry"?

• Aside from the fact that Disclosure is loosely based on a true story, did anybody else notice that Tom Sanders, the male character, is incidental to the real players, who are both women? On one side, Meredith Johnson, an opportunistic yuppie. On the other, Stephanie Kaplan, an old-time equalitarian feminist. Sanders is more bystander than participant.

• To promote rebellion, censor speech. To promote a noisy peace, enforce freedom of speech. Especially freedom of politically incorrect speech.

• Freedom comes in two flavors -- "freedom to," and "freedom from."

• Generally, mothers nurture individuals, fathers nurture civilization. Mothers bring their children to the world, fathers bring the world home. Mothers connect the family, fathers connect communities. Mothers make houses into homes, fathers make homes into civilizations. Removing mothers sterilizes the present; removing fathers sterilizes the future.

• Pop-feminism is squandering our past.

• When men's advocates cite statistics, pop-feminists reject them with the assertion that statistics mean whatever we want them to mean. This does not stop them from trotting out loads of their own statistics.

• When dealing with others, it often seems like men look for strengths to build up, while women look for weaknesses to attack. "Cosby" versus "Rosanne."

• If women are better communicators than men, then why do so many bring up several issues all at once, never let fully address any one of them, and then get huffy when you ask them to be stick to one issue at a time?

• Many women's books address "boundary issues." Women, they say, lose themselves in relationships because men subsume them. And what of men's "boundaries"?

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