Western men today are individuals in a common category, a common group, who although together, are alone and isolated. It has often been stated by various “psychological experts” that , “much of men’s behavior is hardwired (born into us through nature).” That may be true, but it is also true that a large amount of men’s behavior is learned. Men’s roles are very much conditioned into them through educational, governmental, and social institutions. Regardless of that, whatever the influences are that drive men to be who they are, and behave as they do, the fact is that men are largely like a herd of sheep doing what they're told to do. Individual men in the herd compliantly do as they are told right up to the point that they are individually cut out of the herd of men, and devoured by radical/gender feminist laws and prejudices, and the myriad other oppressions that men are forced to bear by the expectations and rules forced on them.

We have great activist men’s groups like National Coalition of Free Men (NCFM), and great activist Father's groups like Millions Dads March (MDM), and Fahter’s United (FU), American Coalition for Fathers & Men (ACFM), etc., but where are the millions of men who should join these groups and make these groups their highest priorities? Where are the millions of men who have been victims who should join these groups? Look at the woefully few who have signed up for the current Men's Congress back east (June 18-19, 2004) and you will see what I mean, http://www.mensrights2004.com/reg.php3.

Sure we go on great sites like Men For Justice and Mensactivism to complain (bleat), but then we men just go on our way following the rear end of the next sheep (man) in front of us as our herd of sheep (men) goes in whatever direction it is directed.

The majority of men as I see it are united in that they are active members of a passive, unthinking herd, where they do what they are told, by their mothers, by their girlfriends, by their wives, by society, by law, by school, etc. There are few among their ranks that have the backbone, or insight to make any kind of a socially and legally acceptable statement fighting back against their own oppression as a group of men.

Those who can't handle the oppression are criminalized and put in prison, or they are made homeless, or they are driven to suicide. It’s a very messy business herding men, but the rewards are great for the oppressors, and as long as you keep the sheep (men) numb to the facts of their own oppression they are quite readily manageable.

On the other hand, today's reward for being a good hard working member of the herd of sheep is to be labeled a “privileged patriarch,” by the radical/gender feminist powers in our society, then you are further denied access to education, jobs, advancement, justice, freedom, equality, respect, etc. You are sent in droves to wars like the one in Iraq. You experience combat. You have horrors of violence heaped on you for being loyal to your country, then when you come back (if you come back) to America you are further preyed on by the rabid hate monger bigots in the domestic violence industry. One of your big rewards for being patriotic and serving America is to be labeled by those man-hating monsters in the domestic violence industry as "prone to violence." Fall into their insidious web in any way, and you will be further marginalized from the society, the friends and the family that you desperately need for your support during difficult times.

If you become a Father you have taken the ultimate step to place your life into the hands (the whims) of anti-male bias. If things go badly the euphemism, “Family Court Justice” will haunt you for the rest of your life. There are many who have fallen into this category, and they have largely become the “undead,” walking through the ruin of the rest of their lives like zombies in a come to life horror story.

In my opinion the biggest “privilege” men enjoy today is to die years sooner than females, and thereby be relieved of additional years of suffering and persecution at the hands of the powers in charge of our man-hating western governments.

Thanks to the lobbying of hundreds of women's commissions and thousands of women's studies programs on college campuses, women get social programs and help (Office of Women's Health, Domestic Violence Shelters, VAWA, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum, ad infinitum), while men get prison and the grave. 93% of the prison population is male. Where is the Violence Against Men Act VAMA for our returning combat veterans (with benefits as generous as those in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)?

“Hard wiring,” or not, our governments condition and forces men into horrible and dangerous situations, then insults, traumatizes, brutalizes, maims or kills them. As a token of appreciation for men’s sacrifices our country then says, “Go fend for yourselves,” or “Take It Like A Man,” or a Man’s Gotta Do What A Man’s Gotta Do.” All the while, females enjoy laws to protect them from discrimination, harassment, violence, etc. at the petty levels they experience it compared to men.

“Hard wiring,” or not many men live their lives quietly in desperation, fearing the next man-hating abuse to be visited on them by uncaring, man-hating America. The recent prison scandal at Abu Ghraib was but the tip of the ice berg of American misandry. Man-hating in America is a treasured, long established institution that has been perfected by radical/gender feminist institutions of power, and it is certainly going to take more than talking about it to change the decades of “targeting men for persecution” to change it.

To change the plight of men in America (and the rest of the world today) it’s going to take concerted action (through all legal means available), and considering the misandry that men routinely face in America, it is going to be a long hard fight before men are ever equal to women in most areas of privilege that women enjoy (not having to bear the major brunt of wars/combat is one of the biggest).

From a man’s perspective, America’s greatest threat is not the war in Iraq, or the war on terrorism, it is the war on Father’s & men. For American men, the greatest threat they face is their own country, because of all the radical/ gender feminists who actively wage a war of hate, terror, and mayhem against Father’s & men using our own laws, government, and even institutions of education as weapons of mass destruction. The silence of the sheep (men) is deafening.

Ray Blumhorst