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This woman is clearly enmeshed in fem-think.
I think you have touched on the root cause of much anti-male hatred on the part of women, Smoking Drive.
Many women believe their own lies. (Note: This does not apply to honest, decent women such as IFeminists and egalitarian feminists.) Most women today actually believe that (for a given background, ability and amount of work) they are paid less than men. They believe that men are more violent toward women than women are toward men. They believe men commit most child abuse. They believe one in four women in college are victims of rape or attempted rape. They believe less money is put into research into female specific diseases than male specific diseases.
They believe their own lies and they are outraged by the oppression that exists only in their imaginations.
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Rather, [Bobbitish-types] represent the rage and betrayal born from a very bad deal that post-feminists struck with Maxim-like men.
But the thing is, they've already cast all men with the same brush. It doesn't really matter what he does anymore. And of course, this puts the onus on men again.
"Like every man, he knows he has the potential to do what he shouldn't do," she says at one point. The particular man she chooses to torment is just a symbol of his sex.
Yay for preemptive strikes. Why not murder all male babies while you're at it so they can't grow up to 'do what he shouldn't do'?
But most of this Lorena Bobbitish behavior doesn't have much to do with achieving equal rights. Rather, it's about frustration in a brutal sexual marketplace.
Well, if all you have is a hammer, you tend to see all problems as nails. (Or is it the other way around?)
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Consider this scene from Jennifer Egan's brilliant new novel "Look At Me," in which the narrator Charlotte brings a casual pickup home. "I was not like most women," she assures us. "For me, the sexual act had nothing to do with love, or rarely ... I didn't worry much about my own performance; as I saw it, any man who succeeded at picking me up with so little effort, with no strings attached and without having to pay for it, should consider himself to be having an extremely good day." So far, she's the epitome of libidinous cool, but the sensualist facade falls apart in the next few paragraphs. "Paul seemed pretty starved himself, and the whole thing was over quickly," Egan writes. "And it was only as he rose from the bed, his body illuminated by the colored lights of the city, that I caught the glint of calculation behind his eyes, a cold, blank set to his face. His shadow self, and not a nice one."
I find it astonishing that anyone could write the given passages from the book being quoted and not see the moral self-contradiction it contains - unless this is what the author intended, in which case she's a lot cleverer than Michelle Goldburg, who seems to be taking it at face value. Given the remarkable conceit of the character Charlotte, how can the line "I caught the glint of calculation behind his eyes, a cold, blank set to his face. His shadow self, and not a nice one" be read as anything but a comment on her? If the author intends us to take this remark at face value, given the attitudes the character has already expressed towards both love and men, she illustrates perfectly the level of absolute self-ignorance that feminism has led some women to. Astonishing. Truly astonishing.
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I can see the author's bias, and she is indeed writing from a gender-specific perspective, but I can forgive her that much. On balance, I think her over-arching point is one that I can consent to easily...that angry women throwing their little conniptions over some sexual miff ought to get their story straight. Ladies, can you handle no-strings sex or can you not? If you can, then what are you furious about?
She illustrates a typical brand of gender feminist hypocrisy and wishy-washiness, though I do concede her tone assumes that men have a penchant for evil and dominant behavior. I might even be inclined to agree with her on that score, but only insofar as ALL people have those propensities. Injustice and abuse of power, sexual or otherwise, is an equal-opportunity human affliction.
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Injustice and abuse of power, sexual or otherwise, is an equal-opportunity human affliction.
I agree with you, Nazgul.
This writer didn't seem so bad to me...but maybe I'm missing the point. I, too, would like to know what makes women so angry at men...but I doubt it's what the author said, that "all men are buffoons" or some such. She was kind of ambivalent towards the killer of ANdy Warhol, saying men worshipped her as well as women. No self-repecting human being would worship a mudererer.
"Female men's activist" is not an oxymoron.
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I, too, would like to know what makes women so angry at men
I said it above, but I'll say it again, I think women are angry at men because they (the women) believe the feminist lies about how women are oppressed by men.
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Because it's popular and simple - you can be scorned at some point in your life and blame another half of the species for it. You can lead yourself to believe that, really, there's a conspiracy to TEACH every male to be whatever way rubs you wrong, and never ever think that possibly humans differ from one another. ah, it's getting late, night.
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I have a friend who was quite the malebasher at one time who developed her negativity toward men while working as a sexual assault counselor for a police department. Her opinions softened considerably after the birth of her son, of course.
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