Mary Zahran: The crime of being a man

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'Back in the mid-1970s, when I was an undergraduate at North Carolina State University, Germaine Greer, author of The Female Eunuch and militant feminist, came to our campus to speak. During her speech, she relentlessly disparaged all men, asserting that every one of them wanted to rape women, but that most had not yet acted on that impulse.
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Recently, Sen. Mazie Hirono, a Democrat from Hawaii, uttered one of the most outrageous and prejudiced statements I have ever heard from a public official. Responding to allegations made by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct while they were in high school, Sen. Hirono shared her own thoughts about this situation: “Guess who’s perpetuating all of these kinds of actions? It’s the men in this country.”

And then she offered this nugget of wisdom: “And I just want to say to the men in this country, just shut up and step up! Do the right thing for a change.”
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If the Germaine Greers and Mazie Hironos of the world hate men so much, perhaps they should remove from their lives everything that men have invented, discovered, or built during the course of human history. They could start with the wheel, and then they could move on to things like dams, agriculture, roads, systems of weights and measures, boats, navigation, cartography, democracy, mathematics, science, the printing press, the free enterprise system, microscopes, electricity, the radio, the telephone, television, antibiotics, the smallpox vaccine, the polio vaccine, trains, automobiles, airplanes, rockets, organ transplants, computers and the Internet (I could go on, but you get my point).'