Feminists Endowed with a Superiority Complex
Taking the oath to “do equal right to the poor and to the rich,” Sonia Sotomayor was finally sworn in as the first Latina on the U.S. Supreme Court. No sooner had the kerfuffle surrounding her “wise Latina” remark subsided, when Carol Smith saw fit to pen this wise verdict in the New York Times: “In my experience, female bosses tend to be better managers, better advisers, mentors, rational thinkers.”
Not to be outdone, last week NPR analyst Cokie Roberts opined in the Washington Post, “Women tend to be a lot more commonsensical than men are” and admitted to hectoring her husband that “Men are just lesser beings.”
Call it whatever you want – female empowerment, turning the tables, girls letting off a little steam, whatever — it’s time to blow the whistle on feminist-inspired misandry.
For decades, male-bashing has been deemed an amusing side show in the Battle of the Sexes. Some consider it funny when an advertisement depicts a man maimed by his girlfriend. Others will say an abused man simply had it coming. (Think former NFL star Steve McNair, shot four times in his sleep by a jealous girlfriend — but no one could bring themselves to call it “domestic violence.”)
In recent years, gender supremacism has entered the mainstream of political discourse. Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan of Texas once declared, “I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have.”
And consider Hillary Clinton’s remark, “Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.” Thank goodness we have ethical paragons like Hillary to show us out of the wilderness.
Sometimes pronouncements of women-as-uber-species approach the point of logical absurdity. Appearing on NPR radio, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona once gushed that women “get so much done because we make lists.” Somehow that sounds like the freakish musings of an obsessive-compulsive, not the reflections of a person trying to make the world a kinder, gentler place.
A February 5 editorial in the Christian Science Monitor announced grandly that “a woman leader governs differently than a man, bringing new perspectives and helping other women.”
I’m sure that came as a surprise to the men who worked long and hard to enact Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and a bevy of other programs that primarily benefit women.
Sometimes the gender supremacists get downright ugly, lapsing into demagoguery to cast men as abusers, deadbeats, and batterers. If you want a real eye-opener, take a look at University of Michigan Catherine McKinnon’s writings. And don’t forget Valerie Solanas’ SCUM (Society for Cutting up Men) Manifesto.
Not all academics are enamored of the feminist antics. Professors Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young of McGill University have written two scholarly tomes that probe the feminist dystopia. Their first book, Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture, lamentably concludes “men are society’s official scapegoats and [should be] held responsible for all evil, including that done by the women they have deluded or intimidated.”
Their second work, Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systematic Discrimination Against Men, reveals how feminists have capitalized on their disdain for men to reshape policies in such wide-ranging areas as marriage, divorce, custody, and even employment.
Case in point is the recent revelation that President Obama’s stimulus plan is skewed to favor women, even though men in the manufacturing and construction industries have been hit hardest: www.renewamerica.us/columns/roberts/090723 .
America has a courageous record of drawing on our traditional notions of fairness and justice to confront supremacists in our midst. We have faced down the bigots, the xenophobes, left-wing fascists, and race-baiters.
Now we must come to terms with the dark side of modern feminism, a movement that fosters contempt and scorn for men.
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August 10th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Give a Dog a Bad Name. Pt.1.
http://soundcloud.com/christian-j/give-a-dog-a-bad-name-part-1
The mass media is anti-male by commercial design. Comprehensive study data shows the depth of disrespect for men. Even ‘Old-school’ feminists are appalled at the damage being done to men. The media is ‘Wrong, both factually and morally”, says MRA Amfortas. Government pays for an agitprop war on men’s reputation to frighten women. At what cost?
Give a dog a Bad Name. Pt.2.
http://soundcloud.com/christian-j/give-a-dog-a-bad-name-pt-2
Women have unconsciously adopted a habit of disrespecting men. “Men are feeling profoundly disappointed, disillusioned and disgusted” and are withdrawing their support and protection of women. Society, and women in particular, are losing a valuable resource needed for its healthy continuance. The Love of men. Is this what women want?
August 11th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
“Now we must come to terms with the dark side of modern feminism, a movement that fosters contempt and scorn for men.”
True.
But let’s be clear: feminism has been fostering contempt for men for a long time. It is not just present tense but past tense as well-going back for decades.
Let’s also be clear: (American; Western) WOMEN chose to believe the feminists.
The history of men is a history filled with advancement-advances often directed towards women. Yet women chose to believe feminism for decades.
(American;Western) women are endowed with a superioity complex.
The results are all around us and they are not good.
August 12th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
I do not believe this is accidental….I believe there is a reason for this:
http://shatterdmen.com/Bitter.htm
I also believe there could be more homeless women but many are being housed in domestic violence shelters to make it appear that there are more women being abused then there really are. (Carey, I do believe you have written on this)
August 17th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
[...] Feminists Endowed with a Superiority Complex — Taking the oath to “do equal right to the poor and to the rich,” Sonia Sotomayor was finally sworn in as the first Latina on the U.S. Supreme Court. No sooner had the kerfuffle surrounding her “wise Latina” remark subsided, when Carol Smith saw fit to pen this wise verdict in the New York Times: “In my experience, female bosses tend to be better managers, better advisers, mentors, rational thinkers.” Not to be outdone, last week NPR analyst Cokie Roberts opined in the Washington Post, “Women tend to be a lot more commonsensical than men are” and admitted to hectoring her husband that “Men are just lesser beings.” [...]
August 30th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
The mass media is just plain stereotypical when it comes to gender! There have been countless times when I watch TV and some commercial advertising lysol will come on and of course it features a woman talking about keeping things like her kitchen clean and her children safe. Not every woman is a mother and not every woman constantly cleans her kitchen. It’s just plain insulting. Furthermore, if it weren’t for feminists, women would still be denied rights that any living person should have. And thank god that women in western civilizations have realized this because if we hadn’t, we would still allow men to get away with sexual and domestic violence. If it weren’t for feminists, all African women would still be having to cut off their genitals because of masculine influence. Need I go on about the benifits of feminism?
August 31st, 2009 at 3:52 am
Elysee, I am sure some others here are as astonished as I at your nonsense about feminism helping women achieve ‘denied rights’. A woman Presided over the Seattle Superior Court in 1910; women were at parity with men in University in the 1940s; 885,000 British men and 110,000 American men died in WW1 with nary a woman in sight and another 1.9 milion were maimed and wounded, and 95% weren’t able to vote while women demanded the vote for themselves. With equal rights, by 1939-45 women were conspicuously few of the 400,000 British men killed in WW2 and the 500,000 American men.
The massive Privilege women have enjoyed while men have continued to be horrendously discriminated against for more than a century is clear to anyone with their feminist blind-folds off.
But male deaths and maiming pale against another number. The post 70’s feminism has delivered women unprecedented privilege paid for by 50 million aborted babies – just in America.
As for African woman and clitorodectomies – that is a woman’s tradition, conducted by adult women inflicting horrendous sexual abuse on young girls and nothing to do with men. But then, you know that, shirley?
August 31st, 2009 at 9:26 am
Amfortas,
It is not very chivalrous of you to throw facts at Elysee that way. I am sure she expected a more gallant, subservient response to her rhetorical query as to whether she needs to “go on about the benefits of feminism.”
After all, we owe thanks to feminism, we are told, for virtually every benefit enjoyed by today’s women — including that the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening …
August 31st, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Elysee said: “if we hadn’t, we would still allow men to get away with sexual and domestic violence. If it weren’t for feminists, all African women would still be having to cut off their genitals because of masculine influence”
Elysee, assault has always been against the law so we did not need special laws that protect women only. From the sounds of what you wrote, I think you really do believe the rule of thumb was to allow men to beat their wife. It never did. Most men who did indeed beat their wife were dealt with rather severely throughout history. However, men who were beaten by their wives were ridiculed throughout history. Do a search for “ridding the donkey backward and see what you find. Also do some basic research on domestic violence using non biased sources such as domestic violence shelters. Every unbiased study I have found show the rate of abuse is either equal or it shows women to be more violent then men. These two links will start you:
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
Men Shouldn’t Be Overlooked
American Psychiatric Association
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/15/31-a
You can also check out
http://www.shatterdmen.com/
http://mediaradar.org/
September 1st, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Elysee It appears you have fallen for many of the feminist myths although I do agree that I have seen ads that depict women in less than flattering ways too. This still does not happen as often as it does to men.
I do want to point out a few other things in your post.
You said: “we would still allow men to get away with sexual and domestic violence.”
When did anyone “allow” men to get away with any of this? Domestic abuse as been gender neutral from the beginning but men were often ridiculed for being battered. Do a web search for “Riding the Donkey Backward” Feminist tell us that men could beat their wife with a rod as long as it was not larger then his thumb….thus the “rule of thumb” but it never allowed that. This rule has always been for measurement. No my friend, rather then allowing men to get away with things like this, we could find more that did things like Eastwood did in “Unforgiving” where he killed several men because they scarred a woman’s face.
I have not seen one legitimate men’s rights advocate say anything to justify Phillip Garrido and in fact most do wonder why he was released from prison for his crime but I have heard feminist come to support horrible crimes simply because the criminal was female. In fact many feminist have stated that they do not think any women should be sent to prison regardless of their crime.
You also state: “All African women would still be having to cut off their genitals because of masculine influence.
Got a news flash my friend, most all of this is done by WOMEN! Men have little to do with it.
One last tidbit, although you did not mention it. We all know how evil men are with the “human trafficking: don’t we? Well, we have a news flash here too….most of it is by….women!
UNITED NATIONS — surprisingly, the perpetrators behind human trafficking around the world are often women, the U.N. reported Thursday.
Women are the majority of traffickers in almost a third of the 155 nations the U.N. surveyed.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,491904,00.html