Misandry Is A Real Word

frank h writes "The letter copied below is one that I submitted to the Times Of Trenton and it was published today. There's nothing really remarkable about it, except that it does include use of the word "misandry." When submitting the letter, I made a point of asking that the word be left intact. (I covered her last name in this submission; it was not covered as such in the newspaper.)" Click Read More to view frank's letter.

In her letter of December 14, 2001, Kathryn A**** clearly demonstrates her contempt for men and all things masculine. In her attempt to grab the moral high ground, she associates men with gorillas and she is convinced that one woman can do more good than a thousand men. She says that men regard war as a hobby, an entertainment, and implies that women never engage in war or even approve of it, a myth quickly deflated after a brief inspection of the biographies of the following notable women: Queen Victoria; Indira Ghandi; Prime Minister Golda Meir; Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; and every female member of Congress who voted in favor of Operations Desert Storm or Enduring Freedom. This is exactly this kind of misandrist bigotry that enrages Afghan women like Farida, a 30-year-old Afghan mother of two. Farida and her constituents are furious with the trashing of Afghan men that is implicit in the current outcry on the plight of Afghan women. (See Mary McGrory, December 2, 2001.)

There is no doubt that Afghan men, women, and children have suffered immensely at the hands of the Taliban, and that women’s suffering has been particularly acute. Clearly, their needs must be met. But A**** would have us believe that men are the enemy. They are not. The enemy in Afghanistan is the Taliban and their distortion of the Koran. The needs of every citizen of Afghanistan must be represented equally, including women, but allocating a given number of seats to females does not guarantee that. What Afghanistan does not need is the kind of misandrist politics espoused by the likes of Gloria Steinem, Catherine McKinnon, Andrea Dworkin, and, it would appear, Kathryn A****.

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