I may not make any fans with this, but since when has that stopped me, eh?

Fellow MNDer, Teri Stoddard, recently wrote a column entitled “Male Bashing is Unacceptable” for which she recieved a lot of flack for daring to suggest that having women feel empowered was a not a bad thing. I have to say that I tend to agree with her, as she made it quite clear that the trendy way of doing it by denigrating men is what she finds objectionable.

I have to say - I haven’t got a problem with this. And I have a problem with a lot of things.

I am no fan of feminism, as many people who haven’t been dead for years know. I’m no real fan of the mainstream American Female - a more spoiled, pampered, whiney, privileged princess with an overblown sense of entitlement and their own self-worth you are not likely to find. I am also no fan of a whole lot of “Pro-MRA/FRA” women; I tend to observe that they come in three strains: The cheerleader who would never actually get their nails broken doing more than lip service for men, the Janey-Come-Lately who was happy to reap all the ill-gotten one sided benefits of feminism until it somehow bit them or their sons or their new husband on the butt, and finally the loud-mouth pseudo-ally who’s sole solution is “Gosh, you guys are great for taking it up the arse for us for so long - keep up the good work! Let’s have a big round of applause for our XY Chromosome butt-monkeys!”

This latter type is especially annoying. “What? Surrender privilege? Gee - um - ya mean, like in not having that cushion to fall back on? Well I’d NEVER use it! I just want it there … Honest! Why would you want to punish me by taking away my cushion? YOU MUST HATE WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

You know the type. I am sure I don’t need to break out the crayolas.

And I don’t see the source here of the vitriol with Teri .

You know, we’ve been around the block with women who don’t get it - and that is allright, most won’t. A good three generations of women have been poisoned by feminism, and even if the cleanup starts now, my great-grandchildren may be the first to begin to have healthy relationships again - at the earliest, too, I think. The damage that particular hate movement has done to society is incalculable, and I’m almost tempted to compare it to the damage done by the Ku Klux Klan - except that I’d probably get sued for libel by the Klan.

And lose.

Thing is, though, some women do get it. Trudy Schuette gets it. I don’t think anyone will contradict that. A lot of women make good faith efforts to get it. And Teri does a lot better than most, and damn near all the time.

One of the things that causes me to hold feminism, and those who preach it, in utter contempt is not only their shallow and knee-jerk sanctification of women while demonizing men, but their tendency to be so desperate for allies that they refuse to police their own. Any kook, any frothing-at-the-mouth man hater, is welcomed to their camp - and most probably because their belief system is so fragile they have to take whoever they can get. And, to be honest, I really don’t care. We all know who they are, and they can always be counted on to spout some insane nonsense; nonsense to which me - or someone like me, can point, laugh, and say, “Those are the people you want to identify with? Play again?” Serious - no effort on my part.

I don’t want to see the same thing on our side of the aisle. One of our biggest weapons is sanity. Well, that and truth. Sanity and Truth. And a fierce Loyalty to the Gonzman - wait a minute. Who is writing this column - me or Monty Python? Anyway - we don’t operate from such a warped worldview we have to damage our credibility by parroting nonsense. Feminists have to do that. They can’t give an inch because their ideology is based on falsity, and conceding anything brings it tumbling down. Hence - Saintly women - Diabolic men. And we know it is bunk. We have both good and evil in both men and women.

Which means - yes, it does - that we have some good women around. They may be scarce to find at times. They do exist, though, and we don’t need to damage our credibility by repeating feminist idiocy. Same thing on the other end, too, for that matter. I refuse to defend some schmuck of a man merely because he is a man. I may give the benefit of the doubt, and vigorously argue for his side to be heard, but hey - it when it all comes out he’s been a schmuck…. Well, I am not going to defend schmucks, or champion them. That job is already filled by plenty of feminists who are willing to make any excuse for a woman based solely on what is between her legs, and I consider myself above that. Besides, the pay is lousy, and the uniforms make you look like a dork. (Though, since I don’t shave my legs either…)

Second, I didn’t get involved in this for get-evenism. I have no wish at all to advance the cause of men by trampling women. I have no time for it. In fact, were I to desire a revenge, I could think of no better one than to merely make some spoiled brat of a femikook live under the same rules she and her kind have crammed down the throats of men for generations anyway. Why devise some torture, when you can use the laws at hand? Still, though - far better to apply those laws in the interest of getting them changed. It’s a sad, sad commentary that such laws won’t be changed until someone runs a sob story about how it negatively impacts women, but I will take what I can get. Too late for me, but maybe my own son might not have to spend the bulk of his adult life fighting to be a part of his children’s lives.

That’s the thing, though - infantilize a segment of the population, and you wind up having to change their nappy on a regular basis. I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but the days of having a husband hunted down and arrested because his wife messed up are days that are well gone. I don’t want to take liberty from women - just have them accept some personal responsibility for how they exercise it. Woman competes with me heads up for something, and wins it, I have no issues. Where I have issues is when she wins it because she is hitting from the red tees. That’s a handout. That is “letting the girl win.” It’s not just wrong - I think any woman who has such things handed to them, without earning them … well, if they had an ounce of integrity or self respect, they’d hand it back. I know I would. Perhaps that is why it gets so vigorously defended and rationalized away by femherroids. Not because they are trying to convince me, but convince themselves.

It strikes me that feminists are always clamoring to be “Empowered.” Okay, I can see where that word is grating, like every other feel-good, PC turn of phrase. And it is annoying because it doesn’t mean what it actually means when it is used by them. Empowered to them means having power handed to them - not equality of opportunity, but equality of result no matter what the performance is. If the girl loses, make an excuse, and award her the blue ribbon anyway. A really empowered person, though, takes their own initiative, runs the race on their own feet, and accepts what they win with grace - win or lose. They don’t whine, or make excuses for themselves when they fail, and they don’t try to argue in a court to win what they can’t achieve by their own efforts and on their own merit.

And that kind of empowerment I am for. Ain’t nothing wrong with that at all.

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