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by Roy on 04:27 PM May 31st, 2006 EST (#1)
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"Many of the conflicts between the women’s liberation movement and the sexual revolution and within the women’s movement itself were left unresolved thirty years ago. What we are seeing today is the residue of that confusion.... Some of this is motivated by a kind of generational rebellion. Embracing raunch so casually is a way for young women to thumb our noses at the intense fervor of second-wave feminists ... Nobody wants to turn into their mother.
... raunch feminism in action is pretty easy to achieve: the basic requirements are hot girls and small garments."
(-Ariel Levy: FEMALE CHAUVINIST PIGS: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture.)
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by blaze4metal on 11:10 PM May 31st, 2006 EST (#2)
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Why are women acting like jocks with the hazing and whatnot? Because they are jocks. They aren't mimicing men, they are being jocks. I'm sick of people being "shocked" becuase they are women. They are shocked because they are still seeing women as non-violent helpless creatures and that is being proved wrong (yet again). The feminazis simply blame men to justify it.
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by Philalethes on 10:24 PM June 2nd, 2006 EST (#3)
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Well, duh, Mr. Starr ...
Actually, I pretty much shared the writer's rose-colored view of the prospect of a female-dominated Brave New World -- until the observed behavior of women themselves finally woke me up. Given my indoctrination, it took a few decades, but I finally realized that there was indeed some wisdom in the traditional, "patriarchal" (note the third quote below) view of the female, her character, and the need to restrain her passions -- which she clearly doesn't know how to do on her own.
As for the Myth of Female Innocence: My response to Feminism remains: If it is true, as I have been continually, relentlessly told all my life, that everything that is evil in the world comes from men, then ... where do men come from?
A fair question, is it not?
"Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces. You must keep her on a tight rein ... Women want total freedom, or rather -- to call things by their names -- total license. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters." -- Cato the Elder, 234-149 BCE, quoted in Livy’s History of Rome
"I must give warning against the danger of woman trying merely to liken herself outwardly to man, for such a course would simply plunge her more deeply into womanliness. It is only too likely that the efforts to emancipate women will result not in giving her real freedom, in letting her reach free-will, but merely in enlarging the range of her caprices." -- Otto Weininger
"The idea that women were repressed until the sexual revolution in the 1960s is absurd ... they were certainly restrained, a crucially different matter." -- Melanie Phillips, The Sex-Change Society: Feminised Britain and the Neutered Male
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Hang in there, Mr. Starr. The power of cognitive dissonance knows no limits and soon, you too will be back to thinking of them as goddesses on Earth (just as many of them also do, apparently).