Feminist Yale Graduation Speech: ‘Some of the well-dressed fathers in the audience have sexually abused the women who are now graduating’
“Anti-male bigots have committed countless campus outrages—without resistance. In Catharine A. MacKinnon: The Rise of a Feminist Censor, 1983-1993, Christopher M. Final describes a scene which might properly be labeled modern collegiate America’s darkest hour. According to Final, during MacKinnon’s 1989 Yale commencement address she said:
“‘Some of the proud mothers in the audience [are] sitting next to men who [have] battered them. Some of the well-dressed fathers [have] sexually abused the women who [are] now graduating.’
“The men’s reaction to this outrage should have been an immediate and unanimous walk out—and every decent woman should have been right with them. Instead, as Final notes, ‘the unfairness of [MacKinnon's] generalization did not diminish the enthusiasm of her supporters. They led the audience in a standing ovation for their departing heroine.’
“And the men—most of whom had worked long hours for decades to support their families and allow their daughters to attend one of the world’s most prestigious universities—did not resist, instead remaining mute, silenced and shamed.”
Below is a Valentine’s Day column I wrote about manbashing on college campuses several years ago. Both when I went to college in the early 1980s and particularly when I went to graduate school at UCLA in the late ’90s, I was appalled at the anti-male bigotry. I wrote several articles about it, and it was quite cathartic. In re-reading this one, I have to say that it still irritates me.
The Best Valentine’s Day Gift for College Students: Gender Reconciliation
By Glenn Sacks
She Thinks (2/13/03)
Valentine’s Day, once a happy occasion for college students, has instead become a day of rancor and discord which symbolizes the divide between men and women on college campuses.
Much of the sour sentiment surrounding Valentine’s Day has been caused by Eve Ensler’s “holiday” campaign “V-Day: Until the Violence Stops.” For years the holiday’s backers and its campus supporters in Women’s Studies departments and women’s centers have propagated a series of discredited falsehoods which stigmatize and vilify men by wildly exaggerating the extent of American men’s violence against women. Dissident feminist Christian Hoff Sommers calls these canards “hate statistics.”
Ensler’s “holiday” is now “celebrated” on over 500 college campuses, and college newspapers are saturated both with misandrist (anti-male) V-Day ads and approving news stories and opinion columns. Valentine’s Day, which in the past symbolized the romantic bonds between men and women, has been turned into a day which further separates them.
Bringing gender reconciliation to our college campuses will require several reforms and changes, the first and foremost of which is the reformation of Women’s Studies.
Women’s Studies began as a legitimate attempt to recapture women’s lost place in “his story” as well as in modern culture, and to highlight the massive yet often hidden societal contributions of women. However, as many dissident feminists have noted, feminism has been hijacked by a bigoted minority which has excluded moderates and freethinkers. Women’s Studies has become, to use Lenin’s term, a “transmission belt” carrying misandry into the population at large. Both by its ability to capture media attention and its influence on the thinking of the 2.3 million men and women who graduate college every year, Women’s Studies has helped poison American culture against men.
Rather than employing an entire class of academics who are paid to research, invent, teach, and propagate misandry, we need academic programs that promote true scholarship. The voices of dissident feminists and men’s advocates, which are currently excluded, must be heard. These include: the eminently sensible Cathy Young, Camille Paglia, Wendy McElroy, Warren Farrell, and Sommers; as well as many others.
Second, we need anti-misandrist campus political organizations dedicated to promoting gender reconciliation. Many feminist groups and campus women’s centers claim, at least in public, that “men are welcome here, too.” Some have even changed their names to include men, and many now include male victims among the female victims in their statistics sections.
However, the reality behind their “welcome” is that men are invited to join feminist groups so they can be taught to dislike men as much as feminists do. Male victims are only listed and acknowledged if the perpetrator of the crime is also male, as in child molestation or domestic violence between gay men. Crimes committed primarily by women, such as child abuse, parental murder of children, and child endangerment, are ignored, as are heterosexual male victims of domestic violence and victims of false accusations of rape or abuse.
Campus groups which seek gender reconciliation face many challenges. For example, the University of New Hampshire group Stop Hating Men, formed in February of last year, disbanded because it faced a wall of feminist-generated hostility and stood little chance of getting administrative approval. (more…)
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February 14th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Well it may well be true that if there were a few hundred women who were graduating, but I also am confident that there were more of the well dressed women sitting there abused their graduating sons or daughters.
We sure will not hear about that even if the act itself was displayed on large screen TV’s
February 14th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Chivalry which lauds women and bashes men has been around long before feminism. Feminism is just the natural, albeit warped conclusion of it.
Same thing with these anti-male attitudes. I knew men and women who thought this way without setting foot into such a classroom or campus event. It was just a natural impulse of middle class white women to buy into feminist victimhood to guilt men into buying them, ironically, valentines day presents.
Hmmm, here’s a thought: how about a “V-day” where men buy women the things they want the most: expensive diamonds BUT the women will show their commitment to women’s equality by rejecting them? Tee hee, see how long that lasts! I’m reminded of James Watt’s controversial remark 20 years ago about how apartheid against South Africa wouldn’t work because women wanted diamonds and he was right: diamond sales soared as career women used their new found mad money to buy them up!
February 14th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Polish Knight
In the late 1800’s something was published in Evansville Indiana “No longer will man say that in the hand of woman rests the necessity of rocking a cradle only. She has within her the power to rule the world.”
2003 in advertisement – one of those that make women look superior to men but then feminist claim the opposite, that she is being “used” for her body… the theme of women ruling continues:
In all caps this advertisement said “YOUR LEFT HAND SAYs ‘WE’ YOUR RIGHT HAND SAYS ‘ME’ YOUR LEFT HAND ROCKS THE CRADLE. YOUR RIGHT HAND RULES THE WORLD. WOMEN OF THE WORLD RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.”
adiamondisforever.com
Shatteredmen… yeah you are correct.
Two things that C*#@* missed (I’ve moved from the three C’s, for diamonds to another C insulting MacKinnon so shift gears) I am refering to MacKinnon with the “C” work.
When when she made that speech. (C =’s Childish, what did you think I was going to say? I was just being careful because the feminist have taught me that there are more and more words we can’t use if they diminish women … so, I thought saying childish might be one of the words men can’t use anymore… I’m just being careful here.)
So for MacKinnon, if no one has a problem with it, instead of the C word I would prefer the use of the “B” word “bitch” … oh, what now? that’s out too. – In the movie “Knocked Up” a movie I watched last night, I heard adults refer to others as Prick, even a young girl age 6(?) was using it, which makes me think, I can’t call a woman who hates men’s guts, who teaches people by the ten’s of thousands that my gender is filled with child abusers and batterers – a bitch? but everyother women and too many men believe that using male sexual organs as the ultimate insult is OK during this era of the Vagina Monologue?.
Trust me, she’s at least a bitch if not childish too.
In that audience, where MacKinnon was doing what such women do best, lie about men, or exaggerate statistics beyond meaning- if statistics about child abuse are correct, it was more likely that there were more women who abused, neglected, and beat a child in that audience than men who have abused and beat a woman. It’s the female gender that more likely injures or KILLS their own child – and it’s sons, not daughters, who are injured or killed. Does MacKinnon not know that? I think they all know it and pretend it’s not so.
Sexual abuse, … a boy telling others that he was sexually abused is treated as if he scored a home run. An adult man speaking of sexual abuse as a child is told that he is confusing repressed memories about “birth” because – women don’t do those things – so if he suggests a woman pinned him down and rubbed her vagina on his face until she climaxed, then he was simply remembering “looking back” at where he just came from.
The older female that abused me smothered me with her weight and smell when I was only 3 or 4 – it happened often and the dreams of being crushed to death or dying – unable to breathe – lasted almost half my life, her words, “don’t tell because the devil will do worse” stayed longer.
So, after 3 decades of nightmares – and a few more years of silent acceptance, “be a man, don’t whine” I sit in audiences with women who “beat children” and where some may have sexually abused a child, and I listen to young women poisoned by the views of older women, speaking as if almost all men are rapists, abusers… and I watch the men sit there and take it like the good little boys taught to listen no matter what their mommy says, men taught to be good little boys in classrooms designed by women, for girls, while adult women angry with boys in the class room go home to men they are angry with because they believe MacKinnon and women like her. [Educators in America today.]
But if I speak up about my abuse, sometimes I do speak up, rarely, I am always looked at – as if I have just said something that couldn’t possibly be true, and “what, did she touch your pee pee?” one woman said once… no, the room was very dark, I was watching the light under the door, two small shadows from her feet, my heart was beating so fast in fear that I thought it sounded like a drum, and the light went off, the dark room got much darker, I thought I would die…it happened more than once… but I don’t tell that story, I can’t speak of it, … I can barely write about it.
My plumber was sexually abused by a baby sitter. Antoine Fisher (Movie with Densel Washington) was beaten and sexually abused. John Irving, the writer, was sexually abuse as a boy by a woman. Until men are asked as often as women are asked then we won’t know how many of us there are. Until men realize that sex with adult women doesn’t make you a man if you are a boy, as long as we teach that the sexual touch of a woman is a prize for all men but the touch of a man defiles, … we will not have an honest discussion about sexual abuse of children by women.
As long as females go to feminist therapists who troll for victims as they – recover/plant – memories, … as feminist therapists do, we will have inflated statistics. As long as men are ignored about DV, sexual abuse, and more, – women stealing our children is worse, I believe… then we won’t end this gender war started by feminist women and continued by feminist propaganda.
As long as weakened boys become pathetically weak men, and don’t speak up, women will rule and women like MacKinnon will rant, and the genders won’t recover from this for a long, long time.
John Irving, my plumber – a friend, Antoine Fisher, and I, are not listed as a statistics … . Not one of us is represented in “women’s studies” … Feminist discuss the “silence” around sexual abuse and DV regarding their gender when it’s the silence from women about the abuse of boys which isn’t just neglect, and physical injuries, it’s also sexual abuse and homicides of young boys. –
Time to go for a quick run and burn off some anger. If MacKinnon were here I would want to slap the bitch – ah, there is never any excuse for violence, the bumber sticker… unless of course it’s women slapping men, can’t do that, … maybe I can just tell her she is a stupid bitch and she should stop teaching hatred of my gender.
SD
SD
February 14th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
PolishKnight, If you don’t slap her I would gladly do it for you. I have seen many women abusing kids especially boys. I talk about it and women just don’t “see” it, that they too are doing what they are hating men for supposedly always doing. I read your post here with interest. I like what you are saying and allow me to say to you, I hope you the best and that you find peace inside and a way to heal. Best wishes to you…
http://www.move-off.org
patriotsofamerica@move-off.org
February 14th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Sorry I meant to address steven deluca. Sorry for mixing you two up there.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
My advise is don’t worry people, the whining ,hatefilled and totally self serving and selfish feminazi’s will one day very soon be history. You see , people are getting wise to these folks, they are not buying the carefully crafted lies anymore, soon the feminist and all their hate will be disenfranchised and they will fade into history. A bad idea that like so many bad ideas, will fade out and go away. The feminist and their failed social engineering experiment, like nazism, communism and socialism ,will be declared a failure and abandoned.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
patriotsofAmerica
Years of therapy, for military violence (100% disability, army, 60’s) … really, I am a happy camper (Despite cancer last year and rather bad, but not horrible odds) My son, my daugher, and my wife love me. I have good friends. One friend teaches women’s history and wrote that she had two abusive step-moms but doesn’t hate all women and she has asked other women who have had bad experiences with men to “grow up” and move on. Like her I don’t hate all women for the years of abuse I had. Other than a “rage” against feminist propoganda, smile, I kick their asses often, in the press and in public, … other than that I have had many close women friends and they helped me heal as much as therapy did.
I find peace often … the nightmares about being crushed in a dark room are gone, almost all the time… men and women helped me heal.
Thanks for your comments.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Robert Stevens, I wish that I could share your optimism.
And without belittling you in the least, take note of the last VAWA vote in Congress…… it was unanimous in favor of the feminazis.
IMBRA may or may not have been passed through a unanimous vote, I don’t recall. But the feminazis successfully made it more difficult, risky, and time-consuming to find wives less tainted by their own toxic ideology.
And in the meantime, generations of boys are raised without fathers as male role models, taught to support a gynocracy and taught that they somehow DESERVE the rights of a fourth-class citizen in their own nation.
Misandry is being fostered by both feminists and chivalrists, abetted by weaklings who cannot or will not speak up against it.
It’s not over, Robert. It’s not even CLOSE to being over.
And by the time enough Americans TRULY wake up to the toxic effects of feminism on our campuses, in the workplace, in the military, it may be too late to prevent our society from being eclipsed by societies that prevent feminism from ever managing to gain a foothold.