You know the drill: "As Valentine's Day approaches one of the unique traditions that isn't Hallmark cards or candlelight dinners, is the production of Eve Ensler's 'The Vagina Monologues,' which is a play that is actually a miscellany of speeches focused on female empowerment." Proceeds for this play, which, in its original production idealized child molestation when practiced by adult women, generally go to support women's "anti-violence" groups.
As Wendy McElroy put it: "Rather than taking 24 hours to celebrate romantic love, women are admonished to ponder rape and domestic violence."
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is a politics bordering on pathology.
Here's what Ms. McElroy said about the "Vagina Monologues": "A play that claims to unveil the truth about vaginas but, somehow, overlooks the salutary role men play in most women's sexuality has no credibility. Worse than this, 'The Vagina Monologues' equates men with 'the enemy' and heterosexual love with violence.
"Betty Dodson — a leader of '60s liberal feminism whose life's work has aimed at demystifying women's sexuality — expressed well-deserved horror at the play. Describing Ensler as 'an evangelical minister,' Dodson believes that the play is a blast of hatred at men and heterosexuality. After all, the 24-year-old woman who seduces the drunken 13-year-old is portrayed as 'rescuing' her from male violence.
"'Take Back the Night' is a rallying cry that PC feminism raises against male violence. Perhaps the rallying call for Feb. 14 should be 'Take Back the Day' — Valentine's Day — a cry that women who love the men in their lives should take up."
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Most women don't buy into the blatant man-hating at the core of most V-Day celebrations, but far too many are parties to a more subtle kind of misandry: they have alienated men from the means of reproduction.
Prof. Lionel Tiger, Rutgers professor of anthropology, has a Valentine's Day piece in the Wall Street Journal in which he writes the following: "The biological bottom line is that it is the woman's responsibility to secure an acceptable long-term partner. Her stakes could not be higher. . . . And while marriage is by no means a romantic walk on the beach, it gets children raised and life goes on. Then why the astonishing fact that 40% of babies born in the industrial world are to unmarried women?"
His answer is all too obvious: ". . . the likelier explanation is that 40% of women do not think the candidates available to them are worth the time and trouble. The ever-increasing disparity between females and males in terms of education and achievement has curtailed the available choices for affluent, well- educated females.
"Our system increasingly favors females. In countless American colleges, the first day of classes involves a rape seminar—largely to please the lawyers, no doubt—which stigmatizes men as potential predators and women as victims. The back of every women's bathroom door at Colby College provides a list of things to do surrounding rape; first-year females at Brown are given a whistle to use when rape threatens."
What's Tiger's solution? "Women can control their reproductive lives, which is as it should be. But to coin a phrase, men are becoming alienated from the means of reproduction, which presumably no one wants. Is there anything to be done to reverse this trend? A good first step is for women to ease up on the patriarchy yammer, especially when it comes to romance: Ideology has no place in the nation's bedrooms."
How about this instead: ditch the patriarchy yammer altogether. It has no place in either civil or intelligence discourse. Period.
Happy Valentines Day.
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Yo, "Christopher", your fake male identity appears to be slipping, bitch.
Cry me a fucking river for your problems, of that I could be as oppressed as a woman, I used to dream of that, but the reality is the women have the power.
Cunts like you are always the first to start whining about 1 in 3, and yet you never volunteer yourselves to do something about the shortage of women in steel working, sewerage farms, bomb disposal, etc by volunteering yourself.
I vote we round up all western women and make them march in lockstep across the world's minefields, thus clearing the minefields, meaning the actually serve a purpose rather than just being a drain on humanity.
It is pretty clear by now (if it wasn't already) that Christopher is a feminist 'concern troll' out to discredit this site. Consider:
- First, he comes here promoting pedophile nonsense, probably in the hope that we would take the bait, and this would no doubt provide enormous ammunition to discredit and demonize us
- Then, he goes out of his way to misrepresent what we stand for, by claiming for example, that we are in favor of prosecuting all women for false rape claims in any case where the rape allegation does not lead to a conviction
- Now, he is falling back on recycling the same old feminist talking points in a kind of complacent, reversion to type
Christopher, as a concern troll you are not very good. You are too obvious by half. In fact, you pretty much suck at it. Please, just fuck off to whatever feminist hole you came from.
P.S. I'm sorry to be throwing myself right into the flame wars again. But I think we have uncovered a real piece of work here.
Yeah, Nick. He/she is banned.
I am not sure if 'Christopher' is a woman or a man.
Either way, he/she is not really up there with the Sokal hoax just yet:-)
"It also doesn't help that there are misogynists like the people on the website "The Spearhead" who are unabashed about wanting women to admit that they are lesser than men, when the fact is that women are NOT lesser than men in any way except perhaps physically and on other things, on a case by case basis."
Christopher, we on the Spearhead and FRS definately do NOT believe women are weaker, and in fact hold them to be as able as men in all things. It is the female sentencing discount, the male-only draft, "arrest-the-male" policies and such that we speak against.
We MRAs not only believe women are as strong as men, but we also EXPECT them to be.
We not only believe women are as accountable for their actions, but we DEMAND that they be treated as such.
It is the Manginas and White Knights who treat females like children. They do so because of their own need to be used as a beast of burden/free body guard. To those Momma's Boys, I say, "let little missy stuff a tampon in it and take up her Ruck Sack."
"With all due respect, there is still a patriarchy in the world today. You might not want to admit it, but look at Congress, people in high elected office, etc."
With all due respect, you could add a lion and a tin-man to that argument and turn it into a musical.
In addition to what Afor wrote, the majority of people who are eligible to vote in the U.S. are women. A democracy dominated by women is not a patriarchy.
"Prof. Lionel Tiger, Rutgers professor of anthropology, has a Valentine's Day piece in the Wall Street Journal"
Does anyone know how to read the rest of that article? All I'm seeing is the first couple of paragraphs without a link to the rest of it.
Dear Christopher-
That bunch of old farts doing your bidding in Congress are hardly representative of any "patiarchy".
Your true ememy, the original "Patriarchy" keeping women's empowerment in check and stunting it's growth is the ORIGINAL "patriarchy": the founding fathers who - with terrific costs and personal sacrifice crafted a document that is the last standing hindrance to "women's rights".
The Constitution.
Those fat assed fools in Congress are more than happy to finish the final gutting and burial in the name of "protecting the womenfolk" and "saving the children".
So don't be biting the filthy hand that feeds you.
All due respect.
Yours in Sisterhood,
Christopher's Artificial-Penis -Hater
Archivist - Yeah, Nick. He/she is banned.
You might also want to take a look at his/her last comment on the previous thread.
Under his/her list of the REAL reasons for rapes, he/she includes this gem:
”2. Men with normal libidos” (http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2011/02/male-gamers-unfairly-maligned-by-claim.html?showComment=1297692807856#c1354564919970668994)
Please see this: The Dark Side of Valentine's Day: When 'True Love' Turns Into Rape Lies
-- http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2011/02/dark-side-of-valentines-day-when-true.html
V-Day
Universities, McMedia, Law Courts, Workforce, and the general social milieu within western societies preach of the beastly, heinous testosterone-poisoned male, ever-lurking for its female prey.
Concurrently, wimmin decry, "Man up!", "Where's all the good ones gone...?!"
This is a world of intensive hatred and shame as well evidence by humanity's lust for great personal power, "My Preciousssss!...." Trillions of hard-earned peoples (sheeples) dollars exhausted every year on warfare.
Dear Fasist-Femmes and Manginas,
head like a hole
dark is your soul
i'd rather die
than give you cuntrol
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IDEA:
Time to raise a money bomb to afford the hottest lawyers for serious lawsuits and put the fear where it belongs, in the eyes of those whom choose to destroy lives of fine, innocent males..
Time to INDICT the real criminals.
As you know, I'm married. I never expect anything, and have only once received anything. Given I don't remember to get him anything, I don't really mind.
Yesterday, at work, I was asked what hubby was getting me. I said "nothing". The reply?
"Can I slap him for you?"
I am not a great fan of deleting posts like these, Pierce. I don't want this to use the same strategy all those feminist sites use, by silencing opposing view points.
He's really easy to argue against anyway, and it show clearly how weak those that oppose freedom really are.
I'm waaay late to the party here, but someone should probably point this out...
You ban this Christopher (guy/girl?) for being what you call a troll, and everyone makes a big deal about it. (I agree with him more than the rest of you, but that's neither here nor there.)
And yet, somehow, you've all failed to notice (perhaps care?) that one of the first commentors said the best use for women was marching them out into fucking /minefields/. That's not as soldiers or anything, just because then they would "actually serve a purpose".
Yeah, I'm really getting the feeling that you're all just a bunch of harmless victims now /sarcasm. It's amazing you even bother to hide your blatant misogyny.
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