Article Still Resonates

Thanks to Tony for this link:

Men Are They Really That Bad?"

Published in 1994, but a good one for your collection. Excerpt:

'The assumption is that men are fair game. Any man insulting is retributive: a payback for the years, the centuries, of male domination and oppression. And for the continuing Awfulness of Men.

In a similar way, of course, the bourgeoisie deserved every bashing it took under Soviet communism: After the revolution, the Zhivago family had to retreat to a corner of their Moscow mansion and submit to the insults of the proletariat who moved in to abuse the former masters and break up the furniture for firewood.
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But this is utopian dreaming. If we were to leave off argument and think kindly for a moment, on the premise that men and women will go on mixing with one another in the current mindless and anarchic way, we might spin the thought that good can come of each sex thinking the best of the other, and might see the converse truth: that only bad can come of each one thinking the worst. Tolerance and decency are creative, civilizing traits. A rising standard of expectation -- a mutual hope, a sympathetic mingling of desires -- will lift all boats. Quite a long time ago -- remember? -- we used to fall in love.

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I hate people who write like this guy, with all the embellisments. Just give us the facts and opinions, asshole. The article would be less than half it's current length, if they edited out the useless horseshit. All it does is distract the reader, and thus dilute whatever point the article is trying to make.
-ax

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"... only bad can come of each one thinking the worst."

Absolutely untrue!

Men have, via stupid chivalry, idealized women and thought "the best" about them for centuries. In the face of overwhelming evidence that they are not the "fairer" sex.

This male myopia has resulted in men being sacrificed in wars, enslaved as worker bees, manipulated as domestic appliances, expropriated as wallets, and harvested as ex-dads.

Only good can come from an (r)evolution in how men view women ... put down the rose-colored glasses and take a clear look at the real predatory gender.

Forget about what they say, how they look, their scented masquerades, all their various skillful charades ...

Observe WHAT THEY DO.

Then, judge their gender accordingly.

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I agree, too many sideways jumps. It would have been better if it had not had the soft-peddling tongue-in-cheekiness thrown around.

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Wow what a crock of shiate, that article is hard to read!

Men definitly need to get the hell up off thier knees and reclaim thier balls. I have noticed, that when I stand up to these bitches in grocery stores and on the roads, where they try and push thier bitchy asses around on other people, they almost always crack under the pressure, they are really good at dishing out crap, but can barly take it when given back at them. Do whats right, not whats expected of you by females.

Now do yourself a favor, today when you go out, be sure to set at least one bitch straight, dish back to her what she is dishing out to you or other people. The rest of the country will thank you for it. As long as we keep taken the bullshit, this will fukin never end. Guys, fuking stand up for yourselves!!!!!

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In the Pleistocene before the Pill and legal abortion (an era that most young feminists have been taught to consider barbaric), both boys and girls felt a terror that a mistake would lead to pregnancy, hence to unwanted, premature marriage or to an abortion nightmare. That terror enforced a certain discipline and formality. Everyone knew -- as human beings understood from the dawn of time until the '60s -- that sex was powerful and that it had implications beyond the moment.

It is the "promise" of abortion, a fall back/defensive strategy, that leads so many people down the road of bastardy when the woman, finally, cannot go through with it, and will not place a child up for adoption.

oregon dad

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"... when the woman, finally, cannot go through with it,..."

Or, perhaps she has planned the "failure" of birth control all along?

Or her "moral integrity" that won't let her abort or put up for adoption was a calculated emotional appeal?

In any case, she is seeking to expropriate a man's life by trapping him into undesired fatherhood.

Females are masters of the "accidental" pregnancy.

Half of Americans' grandparents would not have been born except for our honored tradition of shotgun weddings.

So, logically, most of us are accidental bastards by lineage, right?

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of a couple of these "alleged" accidental pregnancies.
They ruin lives.

oregon dad

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