Marilyn French dead at 79

...feminist psychotics have with being a housewife in the 1950's? Have they lost track of the fact that Americans reported their greatest level of happiness in 1957? Or are they just hoping (usually correctly) that today's young people are too dense to look up that particular statistic or actually speak to someone who was an adult in that era?

If you're wondering about the appeal of this sort of lunatic remember that essentially all women love to feel like victims of something. Men just happen to be convenient scapegoats. Feeling like victims only gets them all wound up and loosens the purse strings when they aren't actually victims of anything at all. This is also why healthy, able-bodied, educated and protected western women absolutely delight in borrowing imagery and suffering from the minority of women in this world who actually are suffering injustices on a daily basis. You'll notice that feminists and women in general do next to nothing to help women who are actually suffering. No, they just want to borrow a cup of victim status. It's like the ugly bridesmaid routine, where they only look pathetic by comparison.

Hence the success of this nutcase and the whole cabal. You know it, I know it, media moguls know it, and feminists sure as hell know it. If you doubt me just take a brief look at the self-pitying swill that women gobble up off the bookshelves, newspaper racks and televisions of the world and you'll know I'm right. The female outrage that my remarks generally cause just tells me how right I am.

All that this person accomplished in her sad, miserable life was to make women all the more susceptible to the advances of mass marketing and the media. She must have been so proud to have made a few bucks on the backs of the eternal victims.

As for the fact that she's dead? Good. She never did anything to benefit anyone but herself and the world will be a happier, better place for both men and women in her absence.

I especially like that "borrowing a cup of victimhood" image. I plan on using it in conversation. :)

Sort of as an addition to your observations, I once heard on a self-help tape (all those years ago, when people listened to "tapes" and even, egad, these big clunky things called "records") an evil, awful, terrible, SEXIST GENERALIZATION about men and women. The speaker said, whether you like it or not, that men like to be acknowledged for their accomplishments and valued for their competency while women like to be acknowledged for moral superiority and valued for their appeal (ie, attractiveness). I could digress and comment on how for men this is about being useful, ie, he values himself because of his utility as a means to an end and how this is a travesty, etc., etc., but I'll refrain.

A part of moral superiority is victimhood. Strange as it sounds, victimhood implies moral superiority. For example, if there is a war and side B loses, it may claim that it was victimized by the winning side, Side A, even if Side B was the aggressor. For example: WWI and Germany. Germany accepted a surrender under terms and cried foul when the terms were actually imposed: compensatory payments, seizure of industrial assets, etc. Even though there are many worse fates if you're on the losing side of a war, still, one way Hitler rose to power was by appealing to the sense of victimhood that the Germans felt. This sense that you have been wronged previously then gives you tacit permission to behave in a way you otherwise would not allow yourself to, or would condemn if you saw it in someone else. This is also the mechanism behind many a family feud.

The only way feminists and in general women can exempt themselves from judgment for the kind of 2x-standards they expect to be on the beneficent end of, to name just a few: men pay for dates-ie, sex, women get 'affirmative action' benefits, women don't mind if men are providing for them vs. earning their own living, and the list goes on almost ad infinitum, is to claim the position of VICTIM and so allow themselves off the hook for the use and exploitation of men. This system of claiming rights and benefits unearned due to a concurrent claim of victimhood seems just too good for them to pass up. When men try to do this though, well, we get told "that's life, suck it up." Fortunately most of us don't try this.

As much fun as women must have with this racket, I wouldn't trade being my own person, responsible, self-reliant, independent, for anything. As a woman, I could live quite nicely siphoning off men and the rest of society in many ways small and large, but I am glad I don't and even glad I couldn't if I wanted to. As hard as it may be to till the land, the food tastes better knowing it was me who did the work to get it. I suppose this is just one difference between the sexes.

How typically rude! Dead at 79 indeed.

At least the rad-feminist misandrist Andrea Dworkin had the good graces to kick it at 59.

I suspect French and Dworkin are protesting sexism in hell.