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The harridan of hatred weighs in on Littleton
We know that hate crimes, violent and otherwise, are overwhelmingly committed by white men who are apparently straight.
- Gloria Steinem, Consulting Editor, Ms., August/September 1999
According to the FBI, African Americans are about two times more likely to commit a racially motivated crime than whites.
White males - usually intelligent, middle class, and heterosexual, or trying desperately to appear so - also account for virtually all the serial, sexually motivated, sadistic killings, those characterized by staling, imprisoning, torturing, and "owning" victims to death.
- Gloria Steinem, Consulting Editor, Ms., August/September 1999
According to the Department of Justice, less than 4% of all homicides involve multiple victims (i.e., victims of serial killers).
But it is truly remarkable, given the relative reasons for anger at injustice in this country, that white, non-poor men have a near-monopoly on multiple killings of strangers, whether serial and sadistic or mass and random.
- Gloria Steinem, Consulting Editor, Ms., August/September 1999
According to the Department of Justice, blacks are 8 times more likely than whites to commit homicide.
These "senseless" killings begin to seem less mysterious when you consider that they were committed disproportionately by white, non-poor males, the group most likely to become hooked on the drug of superiority. It's a drug pushed by a male-dominant culture that presents dominance as a natural right; a racist hierarchy that falsely elevates whiteness; a materialist society that equates superiority with possessions, and a homophobic one that empowers only one form of sexuality.
- Gloria Steinem, Consulting Editor, Ms., August/September 1999
Well, I think that's enough racist ranting from Ms. Steinem.
Sometimes people accuse me of racism when I stand up to black bullies, but the color of a bully's skin does not matter to me, and recently I was almost attacked by one of Ms. Steinem's "supremacy" driven upper-middle class white boys. The boy came roaring out of a parking lot almost hitting me as he straddled the sidewalk. As I stood he rolled down the window and complained he couldn't see because I was blocking his view.
"Pedestrians have the right of way," I noted, and began to walk around him, at which point he flipped me off and roared onto the street almost hitting me a second time. As he passed by I banged a plastic jug of water I was carrying against his fender, to which the boy who couldn't be bothered to yield to pedestrians (there were two young girls immediately behind me) pulled into the next driveway and jumped out snorting mad.
Like a drill instructor he got into my face, threatening to beat me up. Groceries in one hand, cell phone in the other ready to call 911, I looked him in the eye and said, "Go right ahead."
He responded with various epithets, so shaking my head I turned and walked away. He rejoined his admiring girlfriend in the car, roared back onto the street, this time almost hitting the two girls, and flipped me off as he whizzed by.
The two girls cheered and said I should have "kicked his ass." "Violence is usually not the best answer," I told them, and explained I would have called 911.
The fact I almost died in mid-September from an allergic reaction and the experience has left me weak as a kitten aside, there were many things about this that are disturbing.
Certainly, he would tend to demonstrate Steinem's point about white boys, but while he may epitomize a growing problem, disenfranchisement, not feelings of supremacy or entitlement, is a more likely culprit. As Shere Hite noted in Women & Love, "When you can't get through, after a long period of time, out of frustration, either you take it out on yourself and become suicidal, self-destructive, or you challenge the society -- and one way is to become 'terroristic.'"
But then there was his girlfriend. If the girls don't shine to bully boys, then the boys won't be bullies. The sad fact is, in post-pop feminist America, girls drop trou and spread for bullies. It's the beastly boys who make modern maidens go weak in the knees.
Finally, there was the reaction of the two young girls behind me. Although they approved my willingness to confront the bully, they were dissatisfied by my non violent solution. Although women have always admired men who stand up to bullies, in pre-pop feminist days they did not look up to violent men. Yet now, after more than 30 years of pop feminist indoctrination, a growing number of girls and young women do.
The surprise is not that some boys are violent and behave like bullies, but that so few of them do.
Riotgrrls good, riotboyz bad?
Welcome to the new millennium. Hip-hop's latest prophet of rage is Eminem, a lily-white blond boy with white-trash roots. His lyrics are as violent and sexist as they come...replete with patriarchal fantasies, maternal disrespect, accounts of armed robbery, statutory and date rape, and the murder of his baby's mother while his daughter looks on.
- Joan Morgan, Ms., August/September 1999
Well, Mr. Eminem sounds like a boor to me, a riotboy. Question is, why doesn't Ms. express the same disapproval for riotgrrls?
Clueless?
Ally (McBeal) is basically a woman's show, with female-centered plotlines, ...the once-compelling sex and power issues tackled in the courtroom have devolved into little more than mean-spirited attacks on women's issues.
- Andi Zeisler, Editor, Bitch magazine, Ms., August/September 1999
As we said several months ago, Ally McBeal is a Trojan horse for men's issues. Guess the folks in feminazi land just haven't gotten the clue, yet.
Suicide
I am sick from the numbers of women who are being brutalized and raped and sodomized, who are being killed, who are missing, who in a women's culture of nonviolence don't hurt the people who are hurting us. We take our own lives. We commit suicide.
- Andrea Dworkin, Life and Death, p 115, 1997
According to the US Census Bureau Statistical Abstract of the United States, in the 15-24 year old group males are 6 times more likely to commit suicide than females, 4 times more likely in the 25-44 year old group, and almost 3.5 times more likely in the 45-64 year old group. So, whatever point Dworkin is trying to make about women, it would seem we can assume it would apply even more so to men.
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