In this column I pose questions and raise issues. I don't always agree with the conclusion, implied or stated. The purpose is to put a slightly different spin on each item and to promote discussion.
- Next time you're in a debate with a victim feminist, have some fun. At any time you want, look her right in the eyes and with a happy smile say, "I just know that in the end you'll get everything you deserve." Then, sit back and wait for her guilty conscience to kick in. Warning: Do not do this in private. Do this in public with lots of witnesses. Otherwise, she will almost certainly accuse you of threatening her.
- Feminists attack most vehemently in men those vices which they hate most in themselves, and claim most vigorously those virtues which they envy most in men.
- For decades, daytime TV talkshows provided soapboxes where feminist pundits could rant and rail against men. Then, a few men began stepping forward to speak out against these Femagogues and expose their lies, until now Donahue is preparing to quit, Oprah, like Madonna, has rediscovered her virginity, and all the rest are dominated by sleazy little sluts who have nothing better to do than complain about how their sister or brother, husband or wife, is sleeping with the neighbor's dog. Progress, of a kind.
- On one radio talk show recently a caller complained that I was throwing around my opinions like they were facts. In fact, I had expressed two opinions (which I clearly identified as such), and also cited statistics from several surveys. But that's the way it is. When pop-feminists express feelings, it's fundamental truth; when we cite statistics, it's "opinion."
- The same caller complained that The Backlash! doesn't help men do their "inner work." Tell you what, when The Seattle Times, the Washington Post, Ms., the U.S. Government, and my grocery store start helping the New Rage women handle their inner work, I'll think about it. In the meantime, give Men Who Run with the Sheep a read. It might help. If not, check out Molesting the Inner-Child, it comes highly recommended.
- Some "pro-feminist" men say that men should seek approval from women's groups, that we should look to women to teach us how to be men. But most of us already do that -- we watch what kind of men women sleep with, and then follow their lead.
- Montel Williams says women should be angry that a woman with a college degree can make more money as a topless dancer than on a salary. Right, Montel. And should men with a college degree also be angry that women can make more money dancing topless than most men can make on a salary (or dancing topless)?
- What men miss about the fifties is not the "supremacy" of men, but that women were not so much looking for men who had "made it," but men who were doing what it took to make it.
- For most of human history, women have lived with people they know, while men spent much of their time dealing with people they didn't know. Consequently, the genders developed different traditions with different values. Carol Gilligan distinguished between the two by attributing an ethic of caring to women, and an ethic of rights to men. Caring, as Paul Shaner notes, depends upon knowing who you're dealing with, while rights requires knowing only the rules. Work at a large company, you don't need to know your thousands of coworkers to get along, only the rules. But pop-feminists want to throw out the rules and replace them with caring for the individual; and since feminism is about women, that means caring for women, and not men.
- According to various surveys, the mean average number of sexual partners per man is about 15. That's because professional athletes, rock stars and other high status men have hundreds, even thousands of partners. Meanwhile, the mean average for women is much lower. But what if the surveys that establish these figures were to include female prostitutes, many of who also have hundreds, even thousands of partners, wouldn't that provide a more realistic comparison?
- Fanatics can't see both sides of an issue. This inability to see both sides of the gender-debate is a hallmark of feminism.
- Feminists say "the personal is political." Okay, but when some of what's "political" for women has an adverse effect on most men's "personal," then should women be surprised and should the femigogues protest when men politicize their "personal," too?
- Recently, a friend received an irate call from a woman who snapped, "Don't ever call me again! The last time, you were disgusting." During the call in question, he told her she was very attractive. "If she didn't like it," he asked, "why didn't she just say so?" In the opinion of some feminists, her behavior would seem entirely reasonable: an oppressed woman mustering up the courage to warn off a sexual harasser. Assuming they're right, then the flip side is that if a woman doesn't flirt with a male friend when he wants her to, then it would be reasonable for him to call her failure disgusting, and warn her to never call him again .
- What happens if you tell a guy, "stop thinking about pink elephants"? He'll think about pink elephants. What happens when you tell a guy, "stop thinking about sex"?
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