July 2001
Donna Laframboise - Making excuses for women's violence: July 18, 2001 - When men do bad things, the politicians and the press trip over themselves to condemn the domestic violence men do. Why? "Because violence against women has received truckloads of exposure in recent decades." But when women do bad things, none dare call it domestic violence because the pop feminist propagandists have done their best to persuade the public women's violence against men and children is a myth.. "When our society starts to carry on forthright conversations about the power aspect of motherhood, we will have taken one giant step forward. We will have laid aside the angelic, sentimental, old-fashioned view of mothers and recognized that they are no less - and no more - than fully human." National Post.
Bush losing ground with men, gaining with women: July 24, 2001 - George W. Bush won by the male vote. But as his term progresses he's losing support among male voters while gaining the support of female voters: "Now, men and women are beginning to share concerns about the new president, including his closeness with big business." Christian Science Monitor.
Ilana Mercer - Just as good: July 20, 2001 - Generally, women are physically weaker than men. Perhaps relying on the chivalrous attitudes they otherwise hate, pop feminist policy makers use this to dismiss the fact women commit as much domestic mayhem as men. "Physical weakness is not to be equated with moral innocence." Nor is this the only area in which women's violence is ignored: "Consider honor killings, undoubtedly the grisliest of crimes against women. ... But when studying female aggression ... anthropologist Ilsa Glaser observed that women's gossip plays a causal role in the events leading up to the butchering. By spreading gossip about the targeted woman, and by putting pressure on the men to act, women were instrumental in instigating the murders." The conclusion? "If women can match men in almost every way that is good and fine - then so can they harbor the potential to be as sinister as men." Lew Rockwell.
Having a bad day? July 20, 2001 - Assistant U.S. attorney Laurie Sartorio has been charged with flashing a family as she was walking her dogs in a Salt Lake City neighborhood. After spewing vulgar insults at them, she "pulled down her shorts, turned around and lifted up her shirt. The woman wasn't wearing underwear." Desert News.
Richard Cohen - The ignored power of older women: July 11, 2001 - "Powerful men" oppress powerless women. We hear that a lot. And, indeed, there do appear many examples of this from which to launch endless campaigns against the ill nature of men. But what kind of power do powerful men wield? "(Rep. Gary Condit) can secure a grant for some water project or maybe track down an errant Social Security check." But such power has limits. "He cannot even deny the police entry to his apartment." Moreover, if men such as he have power, so do young women. "The power of young women - the power Vladimir Nabokov so brilliantly parodied in his masterpiece, 'Lolita' - never gets mentioned anymore." Where does this silence come from? "(Older women) insist that all May-December affairs are exploitative - the man, of course, exploiting the woman. It is the older man they loathe. It is the younger woman they fear." Washington Post.
Looking for meaning in an increasingly common act: July 20, 2001 - So much to get done, so little time to do it. Load the kids in the car, run to do errands, "stay in the car kids, I'll be right back." Lots of people do it, sometimes with fatal consequences. Paul Wayment left his "2-year-old son, Gage, alone in a truck," and when he returned the boy was missing, and later found dead. Charged and found guilty of negligent homicide, the grief-stricken father took his own life. "This month, toddlers died in Dallas and Minneapolis after they were left in the family car." Boston Globe.
M. Shawn Davis - Equal treatment for male sex abuse victims: July 20, 2001 - When girls are victims of sex abuse, the community rises up in arms. But when the victim is a boy, it's a big joke. Not treated like a real crime. When Mary Kay LaTourneau raped her young student, initially she "was let off with a 180-day jail term, a three-year out-patient sexual offenders treatment program" which allowed her to rape again. More cases of female teachers raping male students are coming to light, and though the courts are pressing forward, they, like the media and the rest of society, treat these cases with no where near the degree of concern they would for a female victim. "Does anyone stop to consider what this does to the development of these boys as sexual beings as they enter adulthood? ... What we are really saying, when we don't have the same disgust and hand down appropriate punishment, is that we don't value victimized teen-age boys as much as teen-age girls who have been victimized in the same manner." Olympian.
Sperm no longer necessary to reproduce: July 10, 2001 - Want kids but you suffer from sterility? That may no longer be a problem. According to infertility scientist Orly Lacham-Kaplan, of the Monash University's Institute of Reproduction and Development in Melbourne, "they may have found a way to fertilize an egg with cells from any parts of the body, rather than sperm, in a new study which offers hope to infertile men and even lesbian couples." Excite News.
Lesbian hate male comes out of the closet: June 5, 2001 - Last April high school girls who signed up for a one-week "Women in Art" course offered by the University of Winnipeg got a lesson in how to masturbate using fruits and vegetables. According to John Carlyle, superintendent of River East School Division, "People were shown fondling objects such as carrots and/or cucumbers and saying you could use this, you don't need a man. The message was not one of art, it was a message of 'girls don't need men, you can get along without them quite nicely -- use the following kinds of paraphernalia and you'll be OK.'" Winnipeg Sun.
Reproductive freedom for men? July 11, 2001 - For decades, pop feminists have loudly protested the lack of a contraceptive pill for men as proof of women's oppression. Meanwhile, millions of men have anxiously awaited the day when, like women, they could dance in the sheets without fear of pregnancy, thus putting an end to this "women's oppression." That day may now be at hand. "Scientists have begun trials of a male contraceptive implant that could be on the market after 2005." Men using the implants, which would be produced and marketed by Akzo Nobel's Organon pharmaceutical unit, would need "testosterone injections every four to six weeks to maintain their other male traits," but it should be very interesting to see whether pop feminist pundits welcome this development, or denounce the reproductive freedom it will provide for men. Yahoo Daily News.
Cathy Young - Pop feminists continue to absolve women of all responsibility: July 11, 2001 - Andrea Yates murdered her kids. Poor Andrea Yates. "In the hands of Newsweek's Anna Quindlen, Yates becomes a symbol of the ordeal of the modern mother - overworked and stressed by impossible demands." But the pity rings false. "The sympathy extended to Yates symbolizes the excesses of an insidious brand of so-called feminism that absolves women of all responsibility for their actions and always blames men for the evil that women do." Boston Globe.
Joel Miller - The gelding of guys: July 14, 2001 - It's a man's world. We know this because pop feminists tell us. So it must be true. But wait, this just in from the Backlash front: "We're not gents or even guys anymore - we're geldings." How can this be? This is, after all, a "man's world." Right? "The Betty Friedans and Andrea Dworkins have turned us all into bipedal sperm banks whose only useful function in life (and science may get around this, too) is dropping a donation in the gene pool every now and then." World Net Daily.
Kathleen Parker - What's good for the gander is good for the goose? July 15, 2001 - The Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld a probation order prohibiting David Oakley from having any more children. Any why not? Oakley "is as good a candidate for a date with Lorena Bobbitt as anyone I can imagine." (One wonders, however, why, after more than 30 years of pop feminist hate male propaganda, it seems as if women are lining up in droves to get impregnated by such low life.) But does that give the state the right to decide men may not sex? "As men see it, women may have babies or not; seek and get an abortion, with or without the father's permission; move so far away with their offspring that fathers have no access to their children; demand child support, garnish a man's wages, and get him thrown into prison for failure to pay regardless of his circumstances." Such a precedent can have only one inevitable outcome: the courts will begin dictating which women can reproduce, too. Which may be why only the male justices voted for it. The backlash is an ugly thing, but so is pop feminism. Orlando Sentinel.
When men are not men: July 8, 2001 - As of 1997, men accounted for roughly 92.4% of the U.S. jail and prison population. According to a multitude of articles and commentary, this proves men are the criminal sex. But add color into the equation, and the fact 48% of them are black casts the issue in a whole different hue. According to author Marcia Tate Arunga, their race matters more: "Perhaps our current conditions speak to the pathology -- a disproportionate number of African Americans in modern slave ships better known as the prison system." Not only does she seem oblivious to the sexism of our justice system, but also to African American racism: "But racism by its very definition is a form of slavery that does exist." Given how pervasive bigotry is among African Americans, we can only imagine how many whites, Asians, Hispanics and Indians are "enslaved" by it. Seattle P-I.
Which sex is the lacivious sex? July 2, 2001 - Women's groups have long decried the double sexual standards which once upon a long time ago said it's okay for men but not for women to sow "wild oats," and that women should marry young to older men. Now the results of a survey conducted over 25 years suggest there may be a very civilizing reason behind the double standard: According to Professor Charles Hill, of Whittier College, California, women who begin having sex at an earlier age are happier, while "men who waited until they found a committed emotional relationship with the right person found strength from that relationship, and this depended in part on the woman being willing to have sex." Ananova.
Is she alone? July 1, 2001 - When prostitute Aileen Wuornos was arrested and charged with murdering her clients, the press and pop feminist groups rushed to portray her as the real victim, assuring us she did it out of fear and self-defense. But now she has dropped her drawers and is mooning them with the truth: she did it for hate. "I just flat robbed, killed them, and there was a lot of hatred behind everything." Given the penchant of the press to sugar-coat everything women do, we have to wonder how many other homicidal women are hiding behind a veil of victimhood. Excite News.
Demonstration of Discrimination: July 5, 2001 - Canadian pop feminist groups, including the National Association of Women and the Law, and the Ontario Women's Network on Custody and Access are protesting proposed changes to the Candian Divorce Act because it would give men an equal say in raising their children. According to Ross Virgin, president of In Search of Justice, "Women's groups constantly yatter about equality, but they don't want equality. They want special treatment." The pop feminist groups oppose shared parenting, because it would establish equality as the standard. National Post.
Elian Gonzales in reverse? July 4, 2001 - Many conservatives opposed returning Elian Gonzales to the care of his father in Cuba. Fatherhood, they said, takes second place to America strong-arming political opponents. Despite their politically pragmatic view, however, they will no doubt join us in rejoicing the reunification of Dr. Leonel Cordova with his children. "A Cuban doctor who dramatically defected to the United States last year had a tearful reunion with his motherless 4-year-old daughter and 11-year-old stepson yesterday after their arrival from Havana." Fortunately for America's families, sometimes political expediency sides with parenthood. New York Post.
Wendy McElroy - The silence cloaking women's crimes: July 3, 2001 - For decades, pop feminists have portrayed women as victims, no matter what. "The mainstream media has accepted this feminist myth so completely it is scrambling to somehow soften the unmitigated evil of (Andrea Pia Yates) murdering her five young children." When confronted with a heinous act, wondering about motives is a normal reaction, but there should be no question about prosecuting the crime. Instead, as always, the pop feminists are blaming it on men. "The new feminist wrinkle, in part, is the myth that women are somehow superior to men and yet, strangely, not responsible for their own actions." Fox News.
These are the people pop feminists want to put in charge? June 30, 2001 - Women are more stable than men, women aren't subject to their hormones, women are reasonable, peaceful, caring and kind. At least, that's what the pop feminists have been telling us for the past 30 years. During that time, they have employed every dirty trick in the book to silence the voices of equalitarians protesting women are neither better nor worse than men, that we're all just people. So we have to wonder how they will explain away the latest explanations of why women kill their children. According to Dr. Shaila Misri, "one in 800 of all new mothers suffers post-partum psychosis -- the extreme end of a spectrum of mood disorders that includes post-partum blues and post-partum depression." If past performance is any indicator, they will probably blame it on men. National Post.
Which sex is the vulgar sex? July 1, 2001 - "Boys will be boys." How the time-worn excuse for rowdy behavior made feminists frown and civil men wince. An entire industry was spawned by the effort to civilize men. But now we see a reason why society has historically remained more tolerant of misbehavior from men than women: by and large, men know when to stop. According to Sally Ferris, the senior duty manager at Belgo Centraal, a Belgian-themed restaurant in London's West End, "Men are easier to manage - you take the drink away from them and they say, 'Sorry, love,' but women become personally abusive." Sunday Times.
Kristin Rossum, murderer: July 1, 2001 - Kristin Rossum is pretty. In pictures, she seems affectionate and loveable. So it's understandable why her husband, Gregory DeVillers, would want to patch together their disintegrating marriage. But when he met with her in November, 2000, she killed him. "Rossum is accused of poisoning her husband with a fatal dose of the drug fentanyl, a narcotic pain-killer, after he threatened to tell authorities at her work that she was having an affair with her boss and stealing drugs from the office to feed her drug habit." Sydney Morning Herald.
Women love sexist pigs: July 1, 2001 - For decades pop feminists have told us men are bad and have to change. That we are akin to slime mold and no woman could possibly love us until we change. So why do so many women go gooey in the shorts over Eminem? "While the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL) and other pro-women groups have expressed outrage at the rap singer's imminent tour of Sydney and Melbourne, the daughters of the feminist generation can't seem to get enough of him." Sydney Morning Herald.
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