The Backlash! - February 1996

• Historically, rulers and governments have controlled men through their wives and families. What happens when fewer and fewer men have access to wives, and fewer and fewer fathers have access to their children? Revolution? Feminist Marxists know and anticipate this because Marxism requires revolution, and that is precisely what they want.

• Women have a "click" when they discover something that is sexist. Okay, and men can have their "CLACK."

• Talkshows today focus on berating, backbiting, degrading, cat-fighting. Like women's gossip?

• Entire generations of women are being raised (or have already been raised) to personify the worst male stereotypes. Talk about becoming your own worst enemy!

• Why do feminists hate most those men who most fully epitomize the male of female fantasies?

• The overabundance of sleazy Talkshows may actually be a good thing. Too much of a good thing eventually wears thin; too much of a bad thing, even sooner.

  Giving child-custody priority to women because they are usually the primary care-givers is like giving job-priority to men because they are usually the primary breadwinners.

• Assuming there is a "female" style of leadership that is distinct from a "male" style automatically posits situations in which one is more appropriate than the other. When and where are male styles more appropriate?

• If it's sexism when car dealers talk down to women, what is it called when they talk down to men?

• Why do so many women date chronically unemployed men? Could it be because so many men have been put out of work by feminist employment policies that discriminate against men?

• Having just turned 21, a young woman I know is hardly prepared to face life as a single mother. Recently, she complained that she’s having a hard time finding men. With a dour expression on his face, one of the guys gave her bulging tummy a pointed look, and suggested otherwise. "HE was a boy," she huffed, implying that he is an irresponsible rogue. Indeed, that may be true, but what does it say about the person he slept with?

• Are those who exhort us to hate "hate" promoting intolerance?

• A young woman who works as a waitress at a restaurant billionaire Bill Gates frequents told me he's very nice. Used to be, public schools taught young people how to distinguish between "charming" and "nice." Not any more. Maybe that's why so many "smart women" today are making so many "foolish choices."

• If women will never forget the crimes one or some men have committed against them, nor forgive all men for those crimes, then what of the crimes one or some women have committed against men? Shall we never forget those crimes, nor forgive all women for them? Where does it stop?

• Were we to somehow magically change any average woman (especially a young woman) such that she possessed all the characteristics she always had, but with one exception -- sexually, she was now a man rather than a woman -- then society would deem her less intrinsically special, less interesting, less worth being with, and she would have to work (at what feminists call "toxic levels") to earn back what she had lost.

• When pop-feminists complain that young American women are oppressed in college, the media reverberates with loud laments. But when men complain that the pop-feminists are guilty of exaggeration at best, and prevarication at worst, the media jeers "stop your whining." Who can doubt the American media is unbiased?

• For most men, the choices are love or fulfillment, while most women can have both. And women wonder why we act the way we do?

• On a recent Sally Jesse Raphael show, one woman explained how she got revenge on her goldbricking ex-husband. He married her for her money, then demanded half her assets on divorce. So, she told him to meet her at the bank. There, she handed him an envelope, told him to give it to the bank president and he'd get everything he had coming to him. The note said "Give me twenty thousand dollars and nobody will get hurt." The police hauled him off to jail. You know, she may be on to something, here. Could this be what men need to start doing?

• Men who point out female hypocrisy don't get love; women who point out male hypocrisy don't get respect. Which is worse?

• Femigogues complain because when men create wealth, their wives and daughters do not control it. They also complain that men always want to be in control. But who's obsessing about it? Just who are the real control freaks?

• In a recent Seattle Weekly article about the various factions of the men's movement, Kenneth Clatterbaugh, a pro-feminist University of Washington philosophy professor, is quoted saying that the men of Generation X are, "at 20 or 21 where a lot of my generation were at 40." That explains a lot about "pro- feminist" men like Clatterbaugh, and why they don't "get" the men's rights movement. Many members of the men's rights movement were, 20 years ago, where Clatterbaugh is today. Maybe in another 20 years, he and his kind will catch up with the rest of us.

• Some feminists assert that female logic is superior to male logic, because female logic is inclusive -- "both/and" -- while male logic is exclusive -- "either/or." If this is true, then why do anti-pornography feminists insist that women choose between either freedom or sexuality?

• Pop-feminists complain that because men suffer from "testosterone poisoning," sometimes we are easily provoked to anger. Is that why PMS is an excuse for murder?

• In Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Susan Faludi harangues author Allan Bloom for his lament over women's liberation from "the dictates of the male will." Okay, and will she also harangue they who lament men's liberation from the dictates of the female need for financial support? Or from the dictates of the female need for career support? Or the female need for child support? Or ...

• Do girlie calendars in the work place create a hostile work environment for women? Even if the images are only of women dressed in miniskirts and blouses that show cleavage? If so, then why is it such a reach to understand the affect a woman wearing a miniskirt and a blouse that shows cleavage can have on men in the workplace?

• Apologists for Naomi Wolf's assertion, in Fire with Fire, 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?

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