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Suzanne Fields' Anti-Male Diatribe
posted by Matt on 05:24 PM October 16th, 2004
The Media Ed writes "Columnist Suzanne Fields has just unleashed another attack on men, "A Long Way from Kabul, Baby," which recently ran in the Washington Times. How's this for enlightened political commentary:

'Many Afghan men fear that the presidential election marks the loosening of their traditional power and control over their women, and we can rejoice that they're probably right. Warlords and tribal elders are particularly threatened.'

You can view the whole article here.

Here's the e-mail for Letters to the Editor:

Letters@washingtontimes.com

And while you're at it, here is Fields’ e-mail: sfields1000@aol.com"

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Um......wha? (Score:1)
by thea on 06:29 PM October 16th, 2004 EST (#1)
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Though my opinion of journalists who work for major media outlets such as the New York Times and the Washington Post could not be any *LOWER*, still I couldn't find the misandric diatribe. And Suzanne did say.....

....."Western women can be such spoiled brats. The photographs of Afghan womenbravely peering through their burqas to vote make up a picture of the female of the species at its best."

Only a female journalist could have printed something like that and have a career the next day. Granted, she did overkill the whole 'woe is the Muslim women in the Middle East and Islamic African Nations,' but I would kill myself if I lived in Saudia Arabia, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Sudan, Nigeria, Pakistan, or in the once Taliban controlled Afghanistan.

Like I want to be shot in the head all because I'm literate, want to vote, not have kids or be a housewife, and pursue a career. But some Middle Eastern women are just as spoiled and pampered as Western women--such as Jordanian women, Israeli women, and Turkish women.

Perhaps we should exile a population of Western women to Sudan, Saudia Arabia, Iran, Nigeria, Yemen, and Syria. That should teach them a lesson in humility and to be grateful for all of the contributions and sacrifices made by men for once in their spoiled-bichy lives.

Damn, we should have turn the Taliban loose on feminazi protesters at UNH :-)

I'm not denying any existence of a misandric diatribe within this article. Maybe I went illiterate when I was reading the article, but what I found was a partial lecture to Western Women to be grateful and stop being so damn spoiled, and look at the Afghani Women who shall be enternally grateful (and humbled) for their new lives, and learn something about humility (and shutting the *FUCK UP* for a change!). Thanks to our Boys.

*Ms.Thea the Pre-Law Major, Pro-Gender Egalitarian, and Pro-Reproductive Rights Activist*
Perhaps I should remind everyone.... (Score:1)
by Adam H (adam@mensactivism.org) on 07:25 PM October 16th, 2004 EST (#2)
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Of what Sue has been saying in the past?

Suzanne Fields Does It Again

A new front in the war (of the sexes)

Chivalry's Last Rites?


Blaming Men for Women's Choices
My Response (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 11:30 PM October 16th, 2004 EST (#3)
Just one thing in regards to this sentence
"Americans can take a certain pride that we have contributed to their emancipation. "

It should read
"American men can take a certain pride that they have contributed to their emancipation. "

Unfortunately, as you pointed out - American women do nothing but consume and whinge.

Best regards,
Craig (Australia)
Re:My Response (Score:1)
by SacredNaCl on 12:33 AM October 17th, 2004 EST (#4)
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"A quarter of the congress shall be female" Okay, some pinhead decided to legislate this. How about letting the people pick who they want to run the show themselves instead of by some outside mandate and if they want a quarter of the legislature female they can vote them in...


Freedom Is Merely Privilege Extended Unless Enjoyed By One & All.
Putting things in perspective (Score:1)
by MAUS on 12:28 PM October 17th, 2004 EST (#5)
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Back in the bad old days of the Karmel regime, Afganistan was under the Russian sphere of influence. This became an embarassment to the socialist Russians who insisted that, in order to maintain their credibility for giving them developement aid, the Afganis should at least let their female children attend school. (At the time there was (and still is) a world of difference between Urban Kabul and the remote country side.) The Afganis were so outraged that this was served up as an ultimatum ( without letting their headmen "mullah"it over, that they attacked the Russian embassy in Kabul, dragged it's staff out into the street, dismembered their arms and legs and left them to bleed to death. In response the Russians did something that the good democratic Americans would never dream of doing if that was done to their embassy staff...they invaded.

In response to this unspeakable outrage a "renagade" US senator and a "renagade" CIA agent ( both of whom never suffered any sort of disciplinary sanction for their "renagade" behaviour) , in consort with ...guess who?? CIA trained Osama bin Ladin...overthrew these dastardly villanous Russians and installed the enlightened, democratic Taliban ( who just happened to go down in history as the most oppressive regime in the 20th century particularly to women and who harboured Osama bin Laden after 9/11...but hey...they replaced those damned Commies and that's what really matters ain't it?

I AM CANADIAN!!!

And I have a much closer connection to the Canadian peace keepers in Afganistan than I will state for the sake of my anonimity. We are achieving what no other foreign power ever involved in the politics of Afganistan has ever achieved. We have turned the rudder towards sanity!!! The Afgans themselves have started to acknowledge this and former enemies have become more reluctant to shoot at us. Let the feminazis, the communists, the Islamic militants, and the American propaganda machine say what it will...ultimately the truth does not require a champion. The truth rings true in the human heart.
check your own house (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 09:26 PM October 17th, 2004 EST (#6)
I rate at zero credibilty journalists talking about sex equality in strange, foreign cultures when they just don't get it in their own.

Suggestion for the Kabul Times:

"Many Western women journalists fear that the the growth of men's activism marks the loosening of their traditional power and control over the home and men's income, and we can rejoice that they're probably right. Domestic warladies and feminist elders are particularly threatened."


Re:check your own house (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 01:12 PM October 18th, 2004 EST (#7)
...GOOD!

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  "Hoka hey!"
Re:check your own house (Score:1)
by MAUS on 05:33 PM October 19th, 2004 EST (#8)
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Sigh!!!! Oh yes male chauvanist pig ya better start shakin....funny thing in this culture they just don't eat bacon....of the many things that the men in Afganistan might have to fear, the prospect of their women becomming three-titted deisel dyke feminazi divorce lawyers the moment they take off their kafias is NOT among them.

Feminazis have hit many walls of non-acceptance of their agenda in the third world. For example, they had a well dug at a village in India where the women had to walk for miles to get water for the household. The local women responded by repeatedly dropping dead goats and other carrion down this new feminist liberation well in order to poison it...why? because the trip to the river was the only opportunity in the day they had to get away from the house and chat with their friends. The notion these American Bourgeoisie bitches had that these women would immediately use their newly won free time to take women's studies and pursue careers as divorce lawyers just didn't pan out.
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