In mid-October, I wrote “CBS Profits from Dumb Dads,” in reaction to yet another pathetic display of paternal impotence on a network-television sitcom. A week later, I was a guest on a San Antonio radio station, debating a misguided female psychologist in denial about the negative portrayal of men in the American media.
It turns out that institutionalized misandry is not unique to the United States; it is as bad or worse in Australia. In fact, we see a growing trend, in Western-oriented democracies, of the media, and consequently family courts, kicking men “down under” — literally, figuratively, and geographically.
An eye-popping article appeared today in The Sydney Morning Herald, based on the doctoral thesis of James R. Macnamara, about the vilification of men in Australian media. In writing his treatise, “Representations of Men and Male Identities in Australian Mass Media,” Dr. Macnamara, affiliated with the University of Western Sydney, studied more than 2000 articles and TV stories about men, over the span of a year. His research demonstrates, starkly, that men are commonly represented as insensitive, stupid, or incompetent.
According to Macnamara: “Out of 100 stories about fatherhood in the nation’s six most-popular newspapers and magazines, only one was written by a man. Many did not even quote a man. When men were portrayed positively — in shows such as Queer Eye For a Straight Guy — it was often because they had “embraced their feminine side.” MacNamara said this anti-male bias further demonized men by reinforcing feminine traits as positive and masculine ones as negative.
There’s nothing new here, except that James Macnamara did a brilliant job of quantifying the problem in Oz. The question remains, therefore, Why and how is misandry growing?
It is happening because men are allowing it to happen. Why don’t men fight back? Why? This is the fundamental question! I believe that so many males are raised in homes that diminish fathers (e.g., the number-one day for collect calls is Fathers’ Day) and worship mothers, that boys grow up feeling insecure and self-loathing. This was bad enough in times when there were fathers in the homes. Nowadays, a father in the home is a rarity — providing more opportunity for mom, consciously or unconsciously, to feminize the mind and attitudes of her son, who craves and requires a strong male identity for normal development.
So, when this vaginized boy progresses to the highschool and university environments, he faces a deluge of the left-wing, politically correct, feminist agenda. Eventually, this boy becomes a “man,” who goes to work at a politically correct newspaper, magazine, or TV network — or gets himself elected to a state assembly, the US Congress, or a state or federal judgeship. Feeling inadequate from a lifetime of propaganda, and finding it professionally expedient to be sensitive to doing the “right” thing, he then perpetuates feminist, anti-male policies, perspectives, advertisements, and TV shows.
A frightening example of how out-of-control American misandry has become is Michigan’s new Coercive Abortion Prevention Act. Essentially, this law prohibits a man from leaving a pregnant woman with whom he currently resides. That’s right: If a Michigan man’s wife or girlfriend is pregnant, regardless of whether that fetus is actually his, he now is her slave — another swift kick in the balls of all men, delivered largely by men. Just how much hatred do men — who comprise the majority of all lawmakers — have for other men?
Yesterday, President George W. Bush held a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The topic was the report of the Iraq Study Group, the bulk of which Bush, thankfully, dismissed. Negotiate with Iran? Is James Baker nuts? Bush said that he has no choice but to take seriously the threats from our enemies and not allow them to prevail. Said Bush: “Historians, years from now, cannot ask why ‘Bush and Blair ignored these threats.’ I am not going to ignore these threats!”
Likewise, we men must stop ignoring the threats of total adumbration of manhood. We have the opportunity, now, to stop misandry in its tracks. We permitted it to grow; we can kill it. Otherwise, years from now, when our society is a pure gynocracy, we will be scratching our heads (our balls will long have atrophied), wondering how we lost all of our rights. Do you want to see your grandson, 20 years hence, doing his doctoral thesis on the gerontological struggles of eunuchs?
About the Author
Marc H. Rudov is an internationally recognized author of 30+ articles and the books Under the Clitoral Hood: How to Crank Her Engine Without Cash, Booze, or Jumper CablesTM (ISBN 9780974501727), and The Man’s No-Nonsense Guide to Women: How to Succeed in Romance on Planet EarthTM (ISBN 0974501719).
Rudov’s book, articles, blog, and podcasts are available at http://www.TheNoNonsenseMan.com/.
