The Backlash! - July 1998

Feminism Unclothed

Perhaps it's time to remind ourselves where
so much of the hate speech is coming from.

 
"My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them.
- Marilyn French, The Women's Room

What pop feminists like French ignore, of course, is that men experience the opposite sex, too. Some men, as a result of their experiences, have as much antipathy toward women as French and her legion do toward men.

N.O.W. Takes Aim at Misogynistic Rulings which award custody of children to men who are attempting to avoid child support payments.

- Dallas Rainbow NOW Chapter at 214-817-5996

NOW assumes if a man gets custody, it's the result of misogyny. Isn't that a sexist generalization?

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that NOW launch Victory 2000--The Feminist Face of Politics with the purpose of electing two thousand feminist candidates to office by the year 2000

- 1997 National NOW Conference Resolutions

If it's not sexist for NOW to promote the election of feminist candidates, how can it be sexist for The Backlash! to promote the election of male positive candidates?

Feminism is not about changing men; it is about women walking away from men's thinking.

- Susan Powter, The Susan Powter show January 22, 1998

Pop feminists believe men personify all their problems. Get rid of men (or male thinking), and all their problems will go away. Yea, that's what the Nazis thought about Jews.

Anything men can do, women can do better.

- Anne Heche, MTV 1998 Movies Awards

In the musical, Annie Get Your Gun, the words were, "Anything you can do, I can do better," and it was a light hearted skirmish in the battle of the sexes. The new version is anything but light hearted, and had a man dared say "anything women can do, men can do better," he would have been booed off stage by the pc MTV crowd. But, a lesbian makes a misandristic statement, it's accepted with laughter, applause and approval.

I'm concerned about diverting too many resources into some untested waters.

- Nancy Duff Campbell, co-president of the National Women's Law Center, A.P. July 4, 1998, on the subject of the Government wanting fathers involved with their children's lives

Right.
 

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