The Backlash! - June 1997
Email to the Editor
Feminazi report
Rich:
>From GVrooman@aol.com Tue May 27 11:00:42 1997
From: GVrooman@aol.com
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 14:00:09 -0400 (EDT)
To: rodvan@backlash.com
Subject: Take Your Sons To The Mall
Rod,
Glad to see the Backlash is up and running again. There has been a lot
of debate about Take Your daughters To Work Day and the fact that,
statistically, men earn more money than women. An even more interesting fact
is that four out of every five consumer dollars are spent by women. Since
spending it is a hell of a lot more fun than earning it, women have the
better part of the bargain.
To remedy this imbalance between the sexes I am proposing a new holiday
called
Take Your Sons To The Mall Day. This holiday could be held concurrently with
Take Your Daughters To Work Day. This would give boys something to do while
the girls are at work. They could be out learning how to spend money instead
of sitting in school being brainwashed by feminist teachers.
Jerry Vrooman
From: garciga@lati.net
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 01:05:23 -0400
To: rodvan@nwlink.com
Subject: Small Talk From a 26-year-old Married Woman
There is a scene in a movie that more than one man has mentioned to me.
The reason it's been mentioned to me is, that I (by hilarious
coincidence), I am one of those people who reach to open the driver-side
car door for the driver when they let me in the passenger-side.
>From what I understand, the movie scene is a conversation of some sort
about the kind of woman a man should marry. Apparently, they are
referring to a woman who, when you open the car door for her as a
passenger, reaches over and opens/unlocks the driver's side door while
the man is walking around to the driver's side (as I do).
Of course, we could get in to a discussions about politeness and
courtesy, why is it a man driving and not a woman, what about electric
locks? Yada-yada-yada. Let's just ignore those questionable topics.
On top of this, I have had more than one man say to me "I've never had a
woman open the car door for me." This is because, if I'm the driver I
open the passenger-side for them first.
If someone hasn't already done so, can I go on record saying something?
"The opening of a car door is not a gender-event; it's a
passenger-driver event." Granted, to some this may seem pretty obvious.
But let them think about their behavior. Coming from late Gen-X, I know
many are forgetting basic policies and procedures for courtesy (maybe
even not knowing what the words courtesy, manners, politeness mean!) By
know means am I a cynic. Nor am I from the deep south.
Oh, and what is my hilarious coincidence? As a child, it was required of
me to open the driver-side car door when one of my parents would let me
in the passenger-side. If I forgot or was lazy, they would bang on the
window so loud, it would scare me half-to-death. It really is funny
come-to-think-of-it.
Thanks for your time, Lara
PS- What's the name of the movie? Has anyone addressed the car door
issue before? I'm desperately seeking my 15 minutes :-)
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