Lessing Decries Male Bashing by Feminists

	posted by Scott on Tuesday August 14, @09:22PM from the news dept.
	Doris Lessing, a well known feminist novelist, has recently spoken out about the needless and vicious male bashing that feminists keep promoting, according to this UK Guardian article. Lessing is quoted as saying, "It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests. Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

	Source: The Guardian [UK newspaper] Title: Lay off men, Lessing tells feminists Author: Fiachra Gibbons Date: August 14, 2001

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Agreement (Score:2) by Nightmist (nightmist@mensactivism.org) on Tuesday August 14, @10:12PM EST (#1) (User #187 Info) While I agree with the subject of this article on a great many of her comments about the modern gender feminist, I wonder what this "child care" initiative is she keeps talking about. Anyone know? I *do* think it's great that someone held up as a feminist icon BY feminists is speaking out on this issue. And her story about visiting the classroom in which the boys practically apologized for their existence broke my heart.

Re:Agreement (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Wednesday August 15, @07:41AM EST (#2) That child care thing is seen (at a guess) as the holy grail of most fems (and a moderate amount of women I think) they somehow think if the west gets great(read:socialist) childcare, everything will be fine. Course, there's a lot more about this than they're gonna tell us. Adam H

Re:Agreement (Score:1) by Hawth on Wednesday August 15, @09:10AM EST (#3) (User #197 Info) The story about the schoolkids was very sad to me, also. And it definitely hit home. I used to be one of those boys. My introduction to feminist attitudes came as part of my elementary school education and persisted through junior high. I had wonderful teachers (almost all of them women), but they definitely had that "chip on the shoulder", as it were, and each of them saw fit to chastise the boys for our inherited sins of maleness at one point or another. They seemed convinced that, already at that young age, we were so pumped up with chauvanist and patriarchal attitudes that it was their job to burst our bubbles as forcefully (and repeatedly) as possible. Ultimately, this seems to be the conviction behind most male-bashing and classroom gender politics; spare the rod, spoil the men. Believe me, I wouldn't be posting at this forum today had it not been for the resentment (though I denied it for many years) that was born in those classrooms and has been continually fed into since. Unfortunately, while I may be exorcising the demons in a constructive way, I suspect that many other of my male contemporaries are not.

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