The Backlash! - January 1997

Things that make you go, "hmmm"

In this column, we pose a few questions and raise some issues. The purpose is to put a slightly different spin on each than you may have seen before, and to promote discussion. In fact, as you read this column, you may even decide you want to write an article about one of them for The Backlash!

Throughout the land, the femigogues are congratulating women for reelecting Bill Clinton. As the evidence of Clinton's criminal activities mount, one can only wonder, when the backlash against women's rights comes, will pundits use this fact to repeal the Nineteenth Amendment?
Prick a feminist, find a fascist?
To be female and politically incorrect in our society is considered "cute," in males, it is considered almost a crime. Who is harmed the most by this sexist attitude?
The company of one intelligent, healthy and good-natured woman with "thunder thighs" is better than 10 self-centered women with toothpick thighs.
Pop feminists talk about men's desire to have children, and men's reluctance to support children who are not their own, as though there was something wrong with that. Indeed, their theorists write that all women should be supported by the state, and no man should be able to claim any child as his own. Okay, let's assume they're right. Too bad. It's time American men stopped acting like a bunch of henpecked capons, and stood up for themselves. Those are our terms, ladies. Take it or we'll leave you.
Trample someone's rights over big issues, and they will come back to haunt you over the "little shit."
In the pop feminist paradigm, not being catered to is tantamount to oppression.
In America, women have always been equal partners with men in the "historic oppression" of Native American Indians. Could this explain the pop feminists' loud diatribes against men? Is it to cover up their guilt?
In 1985, Lenore Weitzman gained fame by saying that, following divorce, women's standard of living drops 73 percent while men's goes up 42 percent. Recently, she admitted she made a mistake, that the numbers are really 27 percent and 10 percent. Wrong again. Because non-custodial fathers cannot deduct child support payments, and women don't have to report them as taxable income, women come out ahead.
Most women don't know how to deal with rejection, while most men expect rejection.
What will happen when the men of the "Million Man March" realize their issues are less about race than gender?
Shouting sound bites at one another solves nothing, nor is it a sound basis for making policy.
If women commit almost 2/3 of the child abuse, then why are most shows about child abuse (like "Bastard out of Carolina," starring Jennifer Jason Leigh) always about men abusing children?
A man who spends each legislative session in the state of Washington lobbying on behalf of non-custodial parents' rights recently told me he had contracted the services of a firm that is run primarily by single mothers who give employment priority to single mothers. When I asked him why he would give his business to a company that discriminates against men like that, he said they offer the best deal. If men aren't willing to put their money where they mouth is, then how can we expect anybody to take us seriously?
Socially, most women don't care about the women's movement, so, through passage of arcane laws and esoteric interpretations of laws, pop feminists are forcing down men's throats what most other women don't care about.
One justification given for abortion is, "it's her body." But genetic tests can prove the fetus is not part of her body.
For many years, the average unemployment rate for men has been higher than for women. This must really gall pop feminists. What can they do to work this to their advantage? Promote policies that increase female unemployment to the point where they can say women are discriminated against in employment opportunities is one. Another is to say, "Men are not cost-effective."

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