The Backlash! - December 1994

Letters to the Editor

Perhaps we should be a little "radical"

September, 1994 -- Why shouldn't men's rights advocates become more radical and aggressive? Men's rights advocates being concerned about becoming too radical is like a person with wet matches being concerned that lighting a candle will start a forest fire.

The men's equality effort is so out-matched and comparatively insignificant to the women's movement that, if anything, a radicalism would be good. However, I believe that we must not lower our standards to the feminist women's movement level of injustice and prejudiced hate of the opposite sex.

With all due respect, I suggest that we don't fear any radicalism, but perhaps the absence of it in a true, legitimate effort for men's equal rights.

An unfortunate precedent has been established for women due to the women's movement effort and the pre-existing traditional chivalry standard, which I believe will take more to ever overcome than our present influential credentials will allow us.

Men's equality advocates must worry about not being heard, and if that takes some of what many consider radicalism, so be it.

Alan Millard, author of Equality: A Man's Claim ($14.95 Northwest Publishing, Inc., 6906 South 300 West, Salt Lake City, Utah 84047)

Running late

October, 1994 -- Have not yet received this month's (October) issue of The Backlash. I am requesting an issue of your excellent magazine as soon as possible. I am a paid subscriber up to May of next year.

Thank you in advance for your response, and keep up the good work. We need folks like you to tell our sorely neglected side of the story!

Bob K., Seattle

Editor's note: I apologize for that. Things got pretty tight after my previous employer laid off almost everyone and closed down the facility. It took a while to find new employment. (You know how tough it is to find a job when most HR managers are feminists and you publish The Backlash? It would probably be easier for Susan Smith could to find work at a day care center.) But, I'm happily employed again, and we should be back on schedule after the holidays.

On the air

November, 1994 -- I listened to your interview on the Bob Durgan radio show (WHP-580).

Please find enclosed a check for subscription to your newsletter "Backlash."

Thank you, Barry, PA

Plush bottom slackers

November, 1994 -- I recently checked the "Women's Section" at the public library. The shelves contain several dozen books by female authors calling themselves "feminists." The library has no "Men's Section because' as they explained, "all the rest of the library is the men's section."

Well, I guess those female derelicts had better get very busy so that they can catch up to the men. Imagine -- they have less than one hundred books to their credit according to the logic of the librarians.

My message for the distaff employees of the world: "Come on girls, get with it. Get off your plush bottoms and start producing some science, language studies, art, philosophy, economics, politics, logic, mathematics, technology, industrialism, and literature. Don't let me continue to outperform you as we have for the last six thousand years."

By the way, I intend to complain sternly if any chauvinistic female oppressors try to deny my right to hang out with the neighborhood dads (to supervise the kids watching TV all day) while the lazy, good-for-nothing female slackers of the world try to match what men have already produced in the world, as represented by the glaring disparity in our respective sections in libraries and bookshops.