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by Anonymous User on Tuesday February 19, @12:38PM EST (#1)
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Not that the Enron scandal wasn't bad... but the deliberate deception of data in an attempt to
obtain more tax dollar funding is equally as scandalous as the Enron debacle. This issue deserves more media attention!
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The media isn't really interested, I'm sorry to say. Ironically, people are more impressed by vague allegations of grand oppressive conspiracies than they are with actual real-life double-dealing.
The "wage gap" can't be discounted as a statistical phenomenon, but that's quite different from the sort of institutionalized, culturally sanctioned practice that gender feminists like to portray. With the right controls in place, as Wendy Mac so eloquently demonstrates, studies of this kind lose their punch altogether. Sadly, outrage sells when it comes to political posturing.
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Wasn't it Goebbels who pointed out that if you tell a lie often enough, people will eventually accept it as a fact?
Well, we know who wrote the pheminist playbook, at least, now don't we my fellow Je...er, men?
---- Burn, Baby, Burn ----
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Wasn't it Goebbels who pointed out that if you tell a lie often enough, people will eventually accept it as a fact?
I'm pretty sure it was Goebbels. I've studied Nazism a fair amount and the similarities between that evil and mainstream feminism are remarkable.
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Wow, deep thought.
I don't agree with the wage-gap propaganda. It's disturbing, to say the least.
And by the way, does anybody know EXACTLY what "patriarchy" is and why the hell genfems hate it so bad? I just construe it as "mainstream Western culture". If this is incorrect, tell me.
"Female men's activist" is not an oxymoron.
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by Anonymous User on Tuesday February 19, @09:10PM EST (#6)
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As I understand it, the term "patriarchy" is used by genfems to identify the "(white) male power structure" that they believe has existed since the beginning of time. They hang this name on it so that they can blame it for everything that goes wrong in the life of any woman. Unfortunately, they fail to recognize that it died about eight thousand years ago, with the advent of agriculture and the binding of people to specific land masses for the purposes of raising crops. What we have now is nothing more than matriarchy disguised as patriarchy.
Frank H
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Rivka, "patriarchy" refers not only to the political status of men (as presidents, senators, judges, etc.) but more importantly to their status as "head of household" in the familial sense. It is through this truly building-block level of male power that society in the large sense perpetuates male dominance in every day life. It is also the economic power that men have a supposed strangle-hold on. It's a lot of things. Most prominently, contemporary feminist theory is predicated on the idea that this patriarchal system is so pervasive that it has distored women's view of reality, particularly that reality they define as their own sense of self. Truth be told, it's difficult to get an accurate picture of how they define patriarchy without going to the source, since you never get a complete picture of a theory from one of its critics.
Anyhow, so the theory goes. And it's a good theory, because like all conspiracy theories, its strength lies in the fact that it is:
A) unprovable, and
B) based on real-world observations (partial though they might be)
Others (like myself) can see the truth of their theory's most bedrock observations (no woman has ever been president, after all), but believe that its legitimacy ends there. Women are not totally bankrupt of all forms of power in this world, and in fact have a real grip on some of the most important forms power can possibly take.
The feminist view of patriarchy can be intoxicating to the imagination, since it is founded on a few grains of truth. But it is something like a liquor...healthy in small doses, blinding in much more than that.
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by Anonymous User on Wednesday February 20, @09:52AM EST (#8)
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"Mobocracy: How the Media's Obsession with Polling Twists the News, Alters Elections, and Undermines Democracy," visit
the following page at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761535829/ ref=mk_pb_ejm
note: I have no affiliation with Amazon or the book.
CJ
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