The Hook-Up is in Flower: An Unbiased Study of Feminism

2010-06-30
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I see where women, or college girls anyway, are honking and blowing most fierce about how they don’t like the way sex works nowadays. Yeah. It seems that the hook-up is in flower. This means when a girl meets some guy on a bus or in a remedial-reading class in college or finds herself in the same elevator, and he says, “Let’s screw,” and she does, maybe right there in the elevator, she gets all mad because she did, and because he did. Men, the bastards.

I was born too soon.

What seems to get their panties in an uproar is that they offer their favors to passersby like soap companies handing out shampoo samples, but without the intimacy, and then grouse because the guy doesn’t call them back. Why would he? Give me one reason.

What I don’t get is, why are gals bitching? This is the world they wanted. They clawed and scratched and burned their bras and had court cases and threw fits to get exactly what they have. They hated men because, they said, men weren’t letting them copulate frantically like men had always wanted them to. Men, or more likely their mothers, didn’t let them make themselves unattractive by dressing like hod-carriers and swearing like sailors. Finally men gave in and now women hate them for that. Whatever happened to gratitude?

When I was a young stud—well, young anyway—in high school, girls were still oppressed, which meant that a guy knew he probably wasn’t going to get laid, so he might as well find a girl he really enjoyed being with. The idea slowly leaked into his hormonally disabled psyche that girls were kind of special. You could actually like one. Sure, a guy made pawing motions because he was expected to, and she went along to a minor extent. But that was it.

So she didn’t feel used or hooked up with because she hadn’t been, and he thought he was damned lucky to have her. It was a concept of sorts.

But then came fem-lib. A torrent of really nasty fems with politically-significant hairy armpits started yowling about how it wasn’t fair that men could cat around and women couldn’t. Then the Pill shifted the paradigm into high gear. Girls could now Do It in relative security, and abortion, also championed by feminists, provided sure-fire back-up. There was now no reason why a woman shouldn’t say Yes.

Which meant—Oh bliss!—that she had little excuse for saying No. Sally Sue might have teeth like pearls and brains and perky tits and a wacky sense of humor and actually be quite a prize, but sex trumps art. If Sally didn’t say Yes, she knew that Greta would. Women had commoditized themselves. It was a marvelous thing for the testosterone wads we think of as college boys.

It quickly came to the old country saw with fangs: Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? Guys learned that they could say, “Check your oil, lady?” and it worked. Praise de Lawd! Gloria Steinem and Andrea Fire-Plug-with-Leprosy Dworkin had done what men had failed to do in millennia: produce a race of obligately loose women.

Women, never happy, discovered that they didn’t like this either. They wanted the right to rut, but not the duty. Unfortunately the two were a package. What they really wanted was to…get married. Being less adept than men at getting outside of their own heads, they didn’t understand why a lot of men were happy single. For a guy, serial monogamy was fine. So was hooking up. Soap flakes are soap flakes.

But it was what women had deliberately brought about.

Not being too good at abstraction, they didn’t understand that a man can be perfectly happy with casual sex, scuba gear, and a Harley Sportster. Left to himself, he would never think of having a Volvo station wagon, a boring McMansion with a backbreaking mortgage, or a wedded termagant who wouldn’t let him go out with his friends. He doesn’t see himself as exploiting his one-nights. He didn’t tell them he was looking for a soul mate, and may well have told them he wasn’t. (Fortunately they never believe it.) He probably isn’t contemptuous of them. He just wants a shot of leg, and figures she must have been taken by the idea, since she did it.

Certain dialogs become common:

“All you want is sex!”

“Uh…what else have you got?” or “So what?”

Or, “Marriage? Why? Would sex be better? Would food taste better? I don’t get it.”

Or, “Marriage doesn’t make sense. Do you want to eat in the same restaurant all your life?”

Marriage of course has only the function of getting the woman’s legal hooks into the guy. It’s a set-up aimed at child support and nothing else.

Anyway, it was the world women crafted, but somehow it didn’t suit them. Nothing does. They relapsed to their default position: Furious.

To make matters worse, women decided that they wanted to be men, or like men, or one of the guys, or some equally awful thing. Enter Anti-Viagra: the little blue blazer with shoulder pads, and the floppy pants-suit suitable for a trailer park outside of Las Vegas. These had the appeal of truss ads and alone would have dropped the birth rate below ZPG, but then came the Chip. As women entered what had been a male workplace, they found that they didn’t much like it, precisely because it was male. Angry as always, they set about neutering all things male, with wild success.

The Chip was the view that they weren’t going to take any crap, accompanied by a constant search for crap not to take. Hating men gave them a horsepower unavailable to males, who didn’t hate women but just wanted to get away from them.

Here again, women got what they wanted. Much favored them. Though they knew less about politics than do men, they voted in larger numbers and, since they did the shopping and liked buying things, they discovered that they had tremendous economic clout. They couldn’t compete well with men, but didn’t have to: Affirmative action worked just fine.

Except somehow it didn’t. One triumph after another somehow didn’t make them happy. They chased boys out of college, providing the satisfactions of vengeance for a crime never committed, but it engendered the hook-up culture, and they hate men for it. They pressured the divorce courts to rape men, and now hate men—the beasts—for not marrying them.

I dunno, Brothels and Cisterns. It seems to me that the feminists got just what they wanted. They made their bed. Now let them lie in it. But quietly. Oh please, quietly.

More Fred up hair.

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  • MaryBeth

    Best Line – “The Chip was the view that they weren’t going to take any crap, accompanied by a constant search for crap not to take.”
    As my brothers would say “Greatness!”

  • Chris

    There’s really only one thing that anybody needs to know about women : They complain . That’s pretty much all they’re really good at . They just don’t understand the concept of satisfaction . They NEED something to complain about . This isn’t true of all women and the further removed one is from Western culture , the less likely are women to complain about pure nonsense but in general it’s completely fair (based on a lifetime of observation) that women simply like to complain .

    Some men just can’t get this into their heads . When a woman is telling you about her problems (which you find so trivial and otherwise unproblematic to begin with ) she isn’t being logical . She doesn’t actually want a solution . She is simply complaining . That’s all women are really , really good at . If there’s nothing to complain about , don’t worry , she’ll create something . Don’t waste your time trying to solve her problems , she’s not interested in actual solutions . She just wants you to listen . So do what every poor married schmuck the world over has learned to do and just nod your head . You can ignore it all , don’t worry , because it’s just verbal flakiness anyway .

    Women don’t think . They let their emotions control their already-limited ability to reason . Logic is lost on %90 of women and the other %10 aren’t half as adept at exercising their gray matter as the average man is .

    Once you accept the fundamental and simple fact that women can’t complain enough , it’s all a whole lot simpler. There is no “feminine mystique” . That’s what they call the confused cluster-*uck that passes for female thinking as part of an effort to rationalize it’s lack of organization .

  • kate

    Ha ha ha! This is hilariously dumb and (presumably) willfully ill-thought out. It IS a joke, right?

  • Eric Legge

    Read this excellent article that well-and-truly debunks the feminist arguments concerning rape:

    The Politics of Rape:
    Debunking the Feminist Myth

    By Trayce Hansen, Ph.D. (a female writer)

    “Radical feminists, and misguided others, obviously have the right to despise traditional culture and to wish to vanquish it. But, like the rest of us, they must make their case in an up-front manner, employing intellectual and moral persuasion and not, as they’ve been doing for nearly three decades, through the backdoor with fear-mongering, gender-baiting, and pseudo-scientific mythmaking. It’s long past time to debunk once and for all the destructive rape-isn’t-about-sex myth propagated by radical feminists and shed much needed light on what appears to be their real agenda—the toppling of traditional culture.” -

    http://www.drtraycehansen.com/Pages/writings_politics.html

  • SingleDad

    I disagree, but I’m no longer married. I think woman got exactly what they wanted and are very happy about it.

    At least every woman I know, old, young, married, not married. They feel things are much better for them.

    I don’t believe the complaint articles they publish, those are just propaganda in their never ending war to make men into their mules, without having to wash water or feed them.

    And yes, they get upset when every man doesn’t want to marry them, but that is in the same way a slave master would be unhappy that the slaves at the market prefer a different master, after all, she spent all that time looking the slave over, maybe even saying a nice word or two, how dare the slave not be happy to live in her bunk house and eat her gruel. And service her needs should they, on a rare occasion, arise.

    I think when older women moan about the hook up culture of younger woman, the older ones are simply angry that their competitors are giving away free milk and want it stopped.

    Also, they can’t stand it that any man, any where has any degree of happiness. They feel this way because their hatered of men gives them great pleasure.

    They hate men and so are called misandrists.

  • Ken

    It just didn’t seem fair. Mere sexual power over men was not enough. They wanted to keep that AND be more like men. They wanted jobs like men and to make money like men and spend money like men. They wanted freedom from the shackles of motherhood, bare foot and pregnant in his kitchen. They wanted equity established by state mandate; because he’s bigger and stronger she could merely “feel threatened” to have him arrested.

    They wanted to be regarded as equal to men in every regard (allowing for “gender neutralized” advantage and Affirmative Action of course). But you see they’re not. We just pretend that they are so we don’t have listen to them complain. And for every advance they’ve made in the name of “equality”, they’ve lost in female sexual power. They never forsaw this unintended consequence of “liberation” coming. It wasn’t supposed to be part of the deal, but feminists knew all along it would happen. They don’t want men to be sexually attracted to women. And it seemed to be working, if only someone would tell the hyper-sexual younger set.

  • Virtue

    Kate.

    Its not our fault that the truth hurts.

  • http://thedamnedoldeman.com TDOM

    I am almost convinced that women have an innate tendecy towards misandry. They are simply born that way. I am also convinced that the so-called patriarchal society was created by men, not to oppress women, but in order to protect themselves from women. On my blog I have just posted an article using that hypothesis and discussing the matriarchal society of the Mosuo people in China as an example supporting that hypothesis. Go to http://thedamnedoldeman.com/?p=1157 if you are interested.

    -TDOM

  • Mr. K

    Fred is refreshing; Caveat to sport, movie, moguls and other millionaire men who are attracted to a nanny or maid like a Rockefeller\’s son. It can cost you mega bucks if you have a tiger in your tank.. Link, Drudge; Elin Nordegren Gets $750M, Custody of Kids in Exchange for Silence in Tiger Woods Divorce…

  • Mike S.

    I read Dr. Hansen’s article and she is absolutely correct about sex being the primary motivation for rape. Duh! I’ve known this since I was a kid, but its amazing how many educated people of both genders have swallowed the feminist tripe about ‘power and control.’ I believe that a lot of the MEN who mouth this crud, do so because they don’t want to admit the ugly, biological truth about what some men are capable of.

  • Chris

    Rape is obviously about sex . Why did we ever allow anyone to convince us otherwise ? To the feminist , the obvious can never be , well , obvious . Simplicity is shunned by the feminist .
    More importantly , why are feminists (the absolutely least likely of all people anywhere to understand the male mind )telling men what motivates them to do anything ? By that logic we would be getting computer advice from our pets and taking our car problems to the baker .

  • moebius22

    This article reads like one from any run of the mill Feminist blog. I get the points, but the language and tone is embarrassing- are we not better than this?

  • Eric Legge

    “I am almost convinced that women have an innate tendency towards misandry. They are simply born that way.” – TDOM

    I don’t agree with that comment. The ‘females’ that are man-haters are the ones who are more like men than women. In case you haven’t noticed, there are no shortage of that type of woman in the US and the UK. They aren’t feminine women. That is why they want a new name for themselves, such as ‘wimmin’. Most radical feminists are lesbians, have a low or non-existent sex drive or are fat or pug ugly. In short, feminists are irregular females who are driven by envy of feminine/attractive women and hate men because men treat them as if they are fully female, which they aren’t, or dismiss them due to their unattractiveness.

    We have to get out of this habit of assuming that because someone has the body of one sex, he or she has the mentality of that sex, because that is all-too-often not the case, especially with people with radical sexually-based political agendas.

    Google: brain sex. It has been shown that there are many ‘females’ who have male-pattern brains and many ‘males’ who have female-pattern brains. These are typically the men and women who are pushing creeping subterranean feminist agendas that are not based on truth but solely aimed at conning females into turning against men so that, via their support, they can rule the roost.

    Feminists can’t be honest and upfront, because that would mean making it plain that they want to overturn traditional society so that they can rule the roost. They have to bleat on about establishing ‘equality’ and using positive discrimination, etc., because they need to have enough women in positions of authority in order to be able to squeeze men out of being in control. If they succeed, men won’t be getting a look in, that’s for sure. But, of course, they will fail, because they simply aren’t enough wimmin who have the talent and drive to replace men. Anyhow, most women don’t want to live like men. But that obvious truth won’t stop the feminists from trying.

    Of course, feminists will also never rule the roost, because their creeping subterranean agendas, if allowed to succeed, destroy the family and the rule of law in their society, which renders them impotent, because criminals rule in a lawless society. Criminals are the opposite of being feminist-friendly.

    The reason that real women have taken the feminist bait is because it wasn’t challenged by men, who have viewed feminism as a joke. Moreover, the control of the media is in the hands of male and female feminists and people eager to make money from supporting the feminist bandwagon, and that put a ban on criticising feminism. Only the blessed web has allowed free reign to demolish feminist lies and publish the results of research into rape, domestic violence, etc.

    In the UK, when we had a first rate education system, boys were doing very well and girls were doing relatively badly. The left-wing politicians then feminised the school system by introducing course work that counted in the exam results and introduced grade inflation that resulted in an average student being able to get the top grades. It is a known fact that females aggregate around the mean of ability, which is what you would expect, since women were designed by nature to look after children not to develop ideas that would detract from that necessity. So, that sleight-of-hand resulted in making it look as if girls are doing better than boys. Boring, feminised course material also hasn’t helped boys. That has been the case in the UK now for at least a decade, but the feminists remained mute about taking measures to improve the performance of boys, because that is obviously the last thing they want. Unfortunately, the paradox of boys doing very well when we had a first-class education system but apparently doing relatively less well with a dumbed-down education system has not been explained yet. However, the new UK government has suggested that it might allow boys to take exams only and allow girls to be assessed by course work only, thereby working to the strengths of both sexes.

    I have not seen or heard the feminist response, but it is obviously not going to be in favour of this because boys will no longer be penalised by a feminised education system.

  • http://thedamnedoldeman.com TDOM

    @Eric You make some very good points, especially about the education system. Boys are struggling because schools cater to girls. There\’s no doubt about it. Being born with a tendency towards misandry does not necessarily mean that a woman will hate men. It also does not mean that this tendency will manifest itself in the same way for all women. There would be a wide range of behaviors and attitudes associated with it. Social and cultural influences would also play a large part. Even women who do not hate men demonstrate this misandry to some degree. This is why misandrous advertising works so well. Advertisers use this tendency to appeal to women and encourage them to purchase their products. It is in part why schools now cater to girls and boys do poorly in comparison. While the man haters led the movement and fathers were silent, mothers and teachers were the ones who backed the changes. They are mostly female and they are the ones with the power to look out for their sons, but don\’t, at least not in the same way they looked out for their daughters. This tendency is one reason why it is ok to portray men and fathers as violent, abusive, drunken, bumbling, or simply incompetent on a regular basis. Few women object to such portrayals, and most simply go along with it or even agree with it. It is why the feminist \”victimhood\” agenda plays so well with women. They are willing to believe that men are all about power and control and using this to victimize women. This tendency is the reason why women don\’t object to our draconian DV laws or to laws that allow men to be falsely accused of rape based solely on the word of a woman. These are but a few of examples of how average, everday women who would not normally be considered man haters, demonstrate misandry. I believe that in a feminist society, men would be oppressed because your normal, average, everyday woman would not object. There are some women who object to these things. I acknowledge that. As I said above, I am talking about a tendency and that can be influenced by many things and manifest itself in many ways. but the overall tendency of women is towards misandry. -TDOM

  • Visitor

    Eric & TDOM- regarding the education system in California, years ago the standardized tests consistently showed girls lagged behind boys in math and science. Feminists insisted that the system was the problem, and that the system needed to be changed to be more accommodating to girls. That didn’t help. The inescapable conclusion was that boys, on the aggregate, were naturally better at math and science than girls, so the feminists changed how “achievement” was defined. Instead of grading students on their abilities to learn and apply the principles (which boys are good at), they started grading on regurgitation. Basically, the girls aren’t better in math or science, but they have neater handwriting, so they receive higher grades. Hooray! The gender achievement gap in math/science was closed! Their deficiencies become readily apparent in the job market.

  • Visitor

    BTW- boys lag behind girls in language/arts, and this is true across cultural/economic/racial strata. The same women who insisted that the system be changed to accomodate girls to close the gender achievement gap in math/science now insist that boys just have to become more like girls if they expect to do better in language/arts. If there are any mothers of young sons reading this, you might want to look into this in your school district, unless your happy that your son is receiving an intentionally sub-standard education.

  • http://thedamnedoldeman.com TDOM

    @Visitor

    Both of your comments about schools are pet peeves of mine. You are absolutely correct in the reasons for the closing of the gender gap in math/science. The focus on homework instead of testing and the requirement for written explanations of how an answer was derived are what closed the gap, not any increase in girls’ ability. It also galls me that we spend so much money and time concentrating on closing the gaps wheregirls lag behind boys, but spend little to no time or money focusing on language, reading, and writing skills for boys when they lag behind girls.

    -TDOM

  • SingleDad

    And you may think I’m kidding about the slave analogy but read Cary Roberts article on “Kill Whitey”. There, feminists are quoted as saying they seek a world free of men. They do not hesitate. They do not couch their words.

    Just like when we thought, 30 years ago, woman were kidding about destoying the family and religeon, today we are kidding ourselves if we don’t, as they say, “listen” to women.

    Feminist theory, as taught in all US universities, and required conditioning by all college students and police and judges, states that men should be reduced to 1/10 the population. Those left should be there for physical toil only.

    So, why would we presume that, under any circumstances, they would want to educate the mules, I mean males?

    In the South only the house slave was taught anything. Learnin could lead to thinkin could lead to actin could lead to rebellion.

    It is sad to see those involved for so many years in the MRM not accept that this is what we are fighting. The very existence of the male of the species. How long after globalization will the extermination begin?

    Oh, I forgot, in the US, sex selection for female babies is well underway. Why kill a boy when you can just choose only females be born. Plus think about the voting advantage a generation from now.

    The highest court in our country, even before it was stacked with exteme hard core feminists, determined that only woman control reproduction.

    I read your site TDOM and you are exactly correct. Feminists have studied that one tribe to death and found their utopian future.

    That is what is next. We can fight it, escape it or submit and die.

  • Chris

    TDOM :
    “Both of your comments about schools are pet peeves of mine. You are absolutely correct in the reasons for the closing of the gender gap in math/science. The focus on homework instead of testing and the requirement for written explanations of how an answer was derived are what closed the gap, not any increase in girls’ ability. It also galls me that we spend so much money and time concentrating on closing the gaps wheregirls lag behind boys, but spend little to no time or money focusing on language, reading, and writing skills for boys when they lag behind girls.”

    Totally true . That begs the question though … what exactly has been accomplished ? I mean , okay , the girls are doing better compared to the boys but in a zero-sum way . The net result is simply a lowering of academic standards . In essence , all that’s been accomplished has been to dumb things down . This , somehow , is read as progress . Was there ever a better example of feminist logic in practice ?

  • Eric Legge

    “There, feminists are quoted as saying they seek a world free of men. They do not hesitate. They do not couch their words.” – SingleDad

    Who cares? Do the Hispanics, the Chinese, the Indians, the Muslims, the Africans care? They are abortive wimmin, not feminine women. You just have to be in the presence of one of them to know that instinctively. If you were to remove everything that male creativity was responsible for you would literally be removing everything and leaving us naked in the wilderness. If you, as a man said, that you wanted a world free of women, you would be called insane, and rightly so. It is high time that we started to put these lunatics in their place. Any real woman who feels the need to follow their lead must be a cretin.

    “Oh, I forgot, in the US, sex selection for female babies is well underway. Why kill a boy when you can just choose only females be born. Plus think about the voting advantage a generation from now.” -
    SingleDad

    There is nothing to worry about, guys, at least with regard to the fate of the human race at large. The US will soon be run by healthier Hispanics. While the US and the UK feminises (weakens) themselves and sink into an abyss, do you think that the Indians and Chinese and Muslim countries, the real new powerhouses, will be doing the same?

    They are going in the opposite direction and they will plough us under. They aren’t and will never be infected with this sexual disease, which is physiologically based, make no mistake about that. I know what the most likely cause of this disease was – the sex hatred of the Church – but I won’t go into that here. Many of our women are more like men than women and they are the ones who are driving it, while the herd-animal real women just follow the loudest voices, which are feminist, not male voices.

    The feminist’s sophistry keeps insisting that women have not made as great a contribution to history, innovation and industry, etc., because of male repression. But they were allowed unimpeded access to the kitchen for millennia. What did they produce from it, the first laboratory? – No, nothing but bad bad diets.

    They didn’t develop nutritional science, which would have led to their development of all of the other natural sciences – physics, chemistry, biology, medical science. They didn’t develop the great cuisines of the world, which were developed by a long line of male chefs in France, India, Italy, China, etc. Baking, cheese-making and brewing were developed by men.

    You just have to look at the junk that the countries that allowed women to be the sole cooks eat. Look at what the Germans, British and Americans descended from the British and Germans eat! It is the closest diet you can get to cannibalism. In the run up to the soccer game in the World Cup between the British and Germans, one of the newspapers said that it was fish and chips (British) versus sauer kraut and sausages (German).

    What have these feminists created of any value in the last 40 years? – Nothing! Just feminist sophistry! The female is not a creative being, not even in the most masculine feminist form, and any country that is dominated by females is going to regress and weaken to the point where the strong races will eventually be able to take it over.

  • mongo

    …boys lag behind girls in language/arts, and this is true across cultural/economic/racial strata…

    This is a commonly related belief, but rarely well-defined or the limits of its application made clear. Consequently, we are left with the impression that women are better with language than men, period.

    Compare the level of language in the comments posted at this site, or all men’s interests sites, with that at Feminist sites. Nearly universally, men are expressing themselves far more candidly, with wider vocabulary, rich use of metaphor and clever, humorous word-play than are women. Men’s grammar is better. Their modes of expression are more original. Not only is this difference stark, the speed with which individual men’s writing improves as soon as they become active comment posters or keepers of blogs is impressive.

    In other words, as soon as men participate in communities, their verbal activities quickly improve, surpassing the average level of women. I wonder if this has anything to do with the greatest of literature – in all languages – having been penned by nearly all men?

    Also suggests what the real problem of schools today are – they are communities of women and girls, where men and boys are marginalized and discouraged from developing their communication abilities by ensuring the allowable discussion content is limited to subject areas of little interest to them.

  • Roger

    Kate Says: “Ha ha ha! This is hilariously dumb and (presumably) willfully ill-thought out. It IS a joke, right?”

    No Kate, we wish it all were. Come back when you can articulate a thought that warrants discussion. I understand though Kate. In the time I’ve spent maintaining my blog (rebukingfeminism . blogspot . com) I have not managed to encounter a legitimate argument from a woman. This leads me to believe that women agree with me, which some have stated outright in my comments section. Otherwise I fear they are out of the loop and entirely oblivious which I believe to be the case with most women. I find that when women do contribute and disagree they simply do not have the intellectual capacity to do so. Responses are usually ad hominems and logical non sequiturs.

    I find that many men who understand the male condition and feminism seem to be above average in intelligence and I venture to say in the upper range of the gender dimorphic curve. This may explain why women do not attend to intellectual conjecture upon the subjects at hand. The women who are among our ranks also tend to be highly intelligent. Though regrettably not enough women participate.

    I in no way intend to be condescending here Kate but there is indeed an undeniable commonality in the structure of female responses. I understand you may be frustrated so I implore you to call upon your ranking officers within the Women’s Party to respond here at Men’s News Daily. You might also try to summon officers from your propaganda ministry within the Zhenotdel or (The Council On Women and Girls) to attempt a response here.

    Intellectual conjecture is always welcome here at Men’s News Daily : )

  • http://reawakenedmen.com/men-in-june-good-men/ Men in June – Good Men | Re-Awakened Men

    [...] Reed in MND is definitely NOT a Good Man, but he would probable agree with that. In ‘The Hook-Up is in Flower: An Unbiased Study of Feminism‘ we have anything but an unbiased study. He is clearly an angry man who doesn’t like [...]

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/mike.lasalle Mike LaSalle

    The author of “reawakenedmen” has something to say about this article:

  • Fred Reed in MND is definitely NOT a Good Man, but he would probable agree with that. In ‘The Hook-Up is in Flower: An Unbiased Study of Feminism‘ we have anything but an unbiased study. He is clearly an angry man who doesn’t like women. To him they seem to be meat that get what they deserve, I’m sure, as a result, he gets what he deserves. Men have a bad name with women already, this just makes it worse.
  • The author of Reawakenedmen begins its blog, “Men in June – Good Men”, with the following critique:

  • This is my look at what there has been on Men on the Internet in June. There is not as much as there should be that looks at Men’s Issues in a serious and enlightened way. I promote what there is to help us all reach a wider audience. If you know of anything interesting that I have missed please highlight it in the comments.

    This month I feature discussions on Good Man both from a positive and a negative viewpoint. It’s not a very happy picture.

    Susan Walsh in Hooking Up Smart gives a woman’s perspective on men. In ‘This is What a Good Man Looks Like‘ she shares a list for objectively evaluating the behavior of someone you’re spending time with, in this case a list about men, good men.

  • The author of the blog begins by presenting him or herself as a proponent of seriousness and enlightenment — in search for Internet male archetypes.

    The blog post includes an image of a uniformed and attentive Tom Cruz from the movie A Few Good Men.

    As if to re-enforce this image of the “Good Man” as both militaristic and subservient, the author introduces us to the best of “Men on the Internet” for June, 2010: Susan Walsh’s article, “Hooking Up Smart”.

    Fred Reed’s article appears much later in the blog, presumably to offer a “Bad Man” contrast to Susan Walsh’s “serious and enlightened” view of men.

    And the subject of this most important article for “Men on the Internet” for month of June? — it’s a woman’s perspective on men.

    This is too easy.

    If the author of reawakenedmen is not a woman, then she ought to be. After browsing the site, the “ideal man” appears to be a composite of features most valued by –women.

    I’m sorry, but this stuff makes me laugh.

    Why make a website pompously titled “reawakened men”, and then proceed to convey the old saw that men must wear a uniform and stand at attention when a lady enters the room?

    Who believes this stuff? The hypnotized never lie.

  • http://malexperience.com Graham Phoenix

    I am the author of ‘Re-Awakened Men’, the apparently pompously titled blog. I am a man, despite what Mike LaSalle thinks!

    I find it fascinating the extent to which someone can read stuff into what is written. Mike clearly starts with an amazing prejudice and, as a man, is obviously unsure of himself. I nowhere in the article set out what the ideal man is, what I do is bemoan the men who seem to get off on blaming women for their ills. I urge men to look at themselves to establish who and what they are.

    This is a definitely a man’s view, although, I admit, many women would support it. Presumably that is why I am condemned.

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/mike.lasalle Mike LaSalle

    Graham Phoenix writes,

  • I nowhere in the article set out what the ideal man is, what I do is bemoan the men who seem to get off on blaming women for their ills. I urge men to look at themselves to establish who and what they are.

    This is a definitely a man’s view, although, I admit, many women would support it. Presumably that is why I am condemned.

  • The other night I watched a re-run of Bill Moyers’ interview with Joseph Campbell on the Power of Myth. According to Campbell, stone age societies typically have an adolescent rite of passage for boys and one for girls.

    The boys rite of passage involves a physical and psychological challenge of some kind, that eventuates in a scaring moment of “rebirth” into the adult world.

    But the girls right of passage had to do with sitting for three days alone in a tent, where they are to reflect on the importance of their role as carriers of life.

    Campbell said these rites describe the role of each sex in the community: men are the protectors of the center, and the center is occupied by women, and the children they incubate.

    That’s common sense.

    Now enter feminism — a puposely imbalanced set of legal and social customs meant to favor women over men. Feminism effects every aspect of social life.

    You say ‘Governance Feminism’ is an illusion perpetuated by conspiracy theorists.

    But have you read Janet Halley’s book, Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism? A professor of law at Harvard University, Halley coined the term herself. Here’s a short passage on page 20:

  • In family law alone, feminism has scored numerous victories that prefer the wife to the husband and the mother to the father….

    It would be a mistake to think that governance issues only from that combination of courts, legislatures, and police which constitutes the everyday image of “the state.” Employers, schools, health care institutions, and a whole range of entities, often formally ‘private’, govern too — and feminism has substantial parts of them under control.

  • Halley is describing a set of customs that elevate women to positions of special protection and even reverence.

    Joseph Campbell, almost as a compliment, offered an anthropological view of men and women that puts women at the center, while men stand in a position of support and protection. Rather like the military serviceman image you offered in A Few Good Men.

    In this way, it’s easy to see how both men and women would think that programs that *help women* are uniformly a good thing. We are all hard-wired to think so!

    But Policy Feminism has tipped the balance so far in favor of women, that a man’s reward for having a family in the first place is made moot.

    Feminism has turned marriage into a losing bet. The odds are just too good that a married man will end up an indentured servant to his ex-wife, purportedly for kids he only gets to see twice a month.

    Feminism has tipped the balance against nature. You can believe what you like. I just don’t want to be under that trees when it falls.

  • http://malexperience.com Graham Phoenix

    Mile LaSalle, in his lengthy response to my comment, only supports what I said, “what I do is bemoan the men who seem to get off on blaming women for their ills. I urge men to look at themselves to establish who and what they are.” He blames everyone but himself. I rest my case…

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/mike.lasalle Mike LaSalle

    Reawakened Graham responds sleepily to my “lengthy” comments, proving once again that the hypnotized never lie. Nighty-night, Reawakened Graham.






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