The Atlantic: 'The Girls Step Up To This'

Submitted by anthony on Sun, 2009-07-12 20:21

Article here. Excerpt:

'But all of that aside, I think it's about time for men to take more responsibility for their bodies and sex lives. Women, I am told, have to constantly think about protecting themselves. They have to give more thought to what situations they end up in. Who they're sleeping with, and who they're entering into a relationship. Rape and physical abuse always hangs in the air. Men, I think because of sheer physical strength, believe that we don't have to think this way. We think we can take few shots at the bar, screw whoever, wake up at nine, hit the waffle house, and then drive home with a great story to tell.
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I don't want to blame McNair for his own death, but the fact is that men who are reckless, often leave behind families to pick up the pieces. I can't imagine the personal work his wife will have to do reconcile all of this, and then explain it to their four sons.'

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As follows. I doubt they'll publish it, but anyway...

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So if the sexes had been reversed, would you be saying anything?

I find it ironic that just at the same time this gets published we have heard about Arturo Gatti's murder. You say in your post that men will never face the same dangers as women. That simply isn't true. Gatti was murdered in his sleep. Of course "innocent 'til proven," as they say, but the following scenario is entirely plausible (if not incredibly likely) as well as far more common than you think: Man is asleep (hey, just like Steve McNair), woman slams him over the head with large blunt object. He does not die right away but is incapacitated. To finish the job, the soon-to-be-self-created-widow picks up her purse and strangulates her soon-to-be-dead husband. Then she says she doesn't notice he's dead for ten hours. "Woops, guess I was a little preoccupied.. heh heh..."

In McNair's case, he was shot four times rather than bludgeoned and strangled. Twice in the head (I guess in case the first round didn't actually succeed in killing him) and twice in the body. She was in fact more thorough than Mafia hit-men; they fire three bullets, one in the stomach, one in the heart, one in the head. She killed her bf more efficiently than the mob does.

And you say men are not in the same kind of danger women are in?

Well to forestall any suggestion that this was an exceptional case, I would like to invite you to look at a number of sources that will disabuse you of that notion:

http://www.californiafamilylawblog.com/2007/01/doj_report_offers_new_insights.html
http://www.menslegal.com/domestic-violence/
http://www.mediaradar.org/media_fact_sheet.php
http://news.mensactivism.org/search/node/domestic+violence

I would also like to introduce you to this concept:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nymphotropism

It is a key underpinning of misandry and the constant stream of complicit behavior from men themselves in the dehumanizing of their own beings and the creating of excuses for the violence of women.

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2009-07-13 15:16