Lay off men, Lessing tells feminists

Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2009-03-17 22:43

Article here. Excerpt:

'The novelist Doris Lessing yesterday claimed that men were the new silent victims in the sex war, "continually demeaned and insulted" by women without a whimper of protest.

Lessing, who became a feminist icon with the books The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, said a "lazy and insidious" culture had taken hold within feminism that revelled in flailing men.

Young boys were being weighed down with guilt about the crimes of their sex, she told the Edinburgh book festival, while energy which could be used to get proper child care was being dissipated in the pointless humiliation of men.

"I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed," the 81-year-old Persian-born writer said yesterday.'

Like0 Dislike0

Comments

A BIG component of the boy crisis in education, one which will never ever, ever by discussed, is the crop of misandrist female teachers indoctrinated by Women Studies. In Doris Lessing's words:

    "I was in a class of nine- and 10-year-olds, girls and boys, and this young woman was telling these kids that the reason for wars was the innately violent nature of men.

    "You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives.
    ...

    "This kind of thing is happening in schools all over the place and no one says a thing."

Along with re-training and deprogramming, the only real permanent solution is the politically untenable one of abolishing Women Studies.

Good luck with that.

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by Hunchback on Wed, 2009-03-18 05:34

Except where Lessing said,

"[the boys] thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives", 'thinking' should of course be replaced by 'correctly assuming'.

-ax

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by axolotl on Wed, 2009-03-18 05:46

Where she says "the crimes of their sex [men]", and where she says "men are the new victims of a sex war". The latter is wrong in two ways: first it foists the false notion that women have at some previous time been victims of a sex war; and second, it foists the notion that men are new victims.

-ax

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by axolotl on Wed, 2009-03-18 05:52

Plenty of women know the situation,they might even sympathise but they are not the ones who count nor are they going to give up their superiority.Lessing might have helped by writing a book about it but that is not going to be ,so, the best way she is only neutral.

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by saracen395 on Wed, 2009-03-18 19:53

Like Kathleen Parker's "Why Men Matter". It is a sad state of affairs when we as MRA's are celebrating this kind of thing. (I don't mean this in a negative way about MRA's; rather, I'm referriing to the sad state that society is in re: treatment of men).
-ax

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by axolotl on Wed, 2009-03-18 20:10