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by Anonymous User on Monday January 28, @01:02PM EST (#1)
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Look at all the media coverage of this. There's no cover-up at all. Imagine that. The media actually reports on the news.
So, how are the men's activists going to deal with this? They will have to find SOMETHING to bitch about.
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When something like this [honesty in news coverage] happens, we don't bitch, dearie. We get out the vino and CELEBRATE!
It's about time the media learned that honesty is the best policy.
If you think men's rights groups are trying to nitpick and "bitch" as you put it, you assume that we're like the male equivalent of feminism. We're not. I personally do not think of men as victims. I just want equality to actually be EQUAL.
-A Female Masculist...
"Female men's activist" is not an oxymoron.
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"We get out the vino and CELEBRATE!"
*lol*
You need your beets -- you recycle, recycle!
Don't eat your beets -- recycle, recycle!
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LadyRivka, you are truly the Best.
You need your beets -- you recycle, recycle!
Don't eat your beets -- recycle, recycle!
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Look at all the media coverage of this. There's no cover-up at all. Imagine that. The media actually reports on the news.
Ummm, as a member of the media, I can most certainly vouch for the fact that what gets reported these days isn't really reported honestly. That's not to say there's a "cover up." That's to say that reports on gender politics usually have a feminist slant because the media is dominated by those of feminist mind.
I am, of course, an exception, but I have also on more than one occasion been silenced by editors who didn't like my opinions.
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by Anonymous User on Monday January 28, @03:15PM EST (#4)
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Actually, that's not completely true. The Israeli media first reported this woman as a "bomber" not a "suicide bomber" so it seems there might have been at least the glimmer of spinning the story. Further, female suicide bombers have been a common occurance in the Tamil uprising on Sri Lanka, and for some odd reason, that never gets mentioned. I wonder why that is? Could it be that this particular bomber chose to bomb Israel instead of some obscure little island off the coast of India? Could it be that the media HAD NO CHOICE but to report this event as it actually happened?
Nahhhh...
Frank H
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A few weeks ago there was a shooting ag a bat mitzvah party. One news outlet initially reported that the mother and grandmother of the honoree was standing at the entrance to the venue (presumably to welcome guests). When the gunman came in an openend fire, the mother threw a chair at him. Then the grandmother (it was reported) picked up a chair and proceeded to whack the gunman with it. The report was unclear but it seemed to say that the two women, acting in tandem, brought down the attacker who was then dragged outside (by whom it didn't say) where he was shot and killed by police or military.
I only heard this report once and it was never repeated in subsequent reports which were all that the police/military stopped the gunman. I don't know if the mother/grandmother attack was accurate reporting and later covered up, or if it was false to begin with and so dropped from subsequent reports.
Or perhaps the two women (and other guests) managed to whack this man with chairs into unconsciousness in which case the police/miltitary shot an unconscious man. So they don't want the mother/grandmother thing reported and supressed it.
In any case, I suspect there is a lot of bias in reporting for various reasons, not all gender related.
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In any case, I suspect there is a lot of bias in reporting for various reasons, not all gender related.
Nor did anyone claim they were *all* gender related. Being in the business, though, I can tell you that a significant amount of media bias against men exists. I see it, read it, and rail against it every day.
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Hi Troll, how's it going? The standard femmunist rejoinder would be that this woman terrorist did it for the love of her boyfriend--some masculine evil is really responsible; the exploding chick isn't ultimately responsible. Anyway, bitching is beside the point.
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femmunist
Heh. I love that word. I think I'll borrow it.
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I borrowed "femmunist" from someone who posted the word on this board. I liked it so much I plagiarized it without attribution; you're welcome to do likewise. I think it's much more clever and apt than feminazi, which has become a cliche. An old joke around many social sciences departments is that after the Berlin Wall fell, many of the Marxists went into women's studies; one could say they became femmunists. The socialist economic connotations of femmunism shouldn't be lost on anyone; e.g., the attempt to impose equal pay for unequal work based on dubious statistical measures which efface the effect of feminine work choices on income is an example of femmunist economic policy.
I suggest that the Men's movement, in an act of terminological solidarity (I'm really in good form tonight), adopt "femmunist" and "femmunism" as the standard terms superceding "feminazi" and "cult feminist", among other such terms.
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by Anonymous User on Tuesday January 29, @07:23AM EST (#12)
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Do this: write that word and it's definition on two pieces of paper. Mail one to your lawyer and ask him to keep it safe. Mail the other one to yourself and when you receive it, postmarked, do NOT open it, just put it in your files.
The time will come when someone, probably a feminist, wants to claim and co-opt the word for their own purpose or keep us from using it. At least, if you do this, you'll have some recourse as to any claims on the word in copyright protection.
Frank H
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