"On some days," writes Elizabeth Fox-Genovese in Feminism Is Not The Story Of My Life, "it is hard not to believe that our society has collapsed into an all-out war between the sexes." Cathy Young laments in Ceasefire! Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality, "...[F]or every sign of a return to sanity, there are several signs that the culture of gender polarization is alive." In Fire With Fire, Naomi Wolf says, "We are not simply experiencing a ‘war against women‘ in which women are unthreatening victims. Rather, we are in the midst of a civil war over gender, in which there is not one side waging battle but two, unevenly matched though they may be. It is also a war against men." Here is the short reason for this great gender divide: Like an ill-trained doctor, you misdiagnosed the sexes‘ condition from the beginning and now prescribe the wrong remedy, one that has set many men and women seething at each other over a wide range of issues, from jobs and health funding, to violence in the home and sexual harassment in the workplace. As all know, you diagnosed the sexes‘ condition along this line: Men possess a cornucopia of power and privilege, and women possess nothing save the misfortune of being crushed underfoot by a patriarchal boot. Your remedy, then, was to confer to women, at men‘s expense where necessary, more rights, privileges, power, self-esteem, money – anything that would make life as good for them as you envision it being for men. Because of your persistence, this "remedy" was eventually seized upon and promoted by virtually every institution as if gospel. This happened, as did the gender alienation, because in your diagnosis of the state of gender, you and the largely unquestioning news media gave not even a glance to the male side of the issues. You failed to look beyond your oversimplified "Men run things, so they have the power." So, for example, when you deemed women oppressed because "they were stuck at home with the children," you failed to acknowledge the male side: men were stuck at work away from the children, and that it can be just as oppressive to be stuck with the boss, over whom one has no control, as it can be to be stuck with the children, over whom one generally has control. Men often endured pressure-cooker jobs solely to fulfill their role of earning enough income so their stay-at-home wife could stay home.
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mike: Real feminists understand that men are victimized just as much as women when they are forced into traditional gender roles.
Feminazi‘s like this one don‘t believe in equality at all. In fact they try their hardest to validate sexism and then make it their outlook on life.
Their world view is based on a sense of gender superority in which they view Females as the: ‘master sex‘ and males as the ‘inferior sex‘. Thus entitleing them to privalages at the expense of their male counterparts.
Their theory is very similar to the way the Nazi‘s viewed themselves as the master race. And believed that all other groups were inferior and must be enslaved for the benefit of the Aryians.
Chuck Terzella: OH LORD, AM I TIRED OF EVERYBODY BEING PISSED OFF ABOUT WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE IS DOING TO THEM.
BattlinMinerJr: Chucky‘s right, everyone needs to lighten up a bit, but that‘s not to say we don‘t have some issues to be resolved. I‘m a man, and I know that there are women that can do "manly" things better than I, and I also know that I can do "feminine" better than some women. The typical gender roles we experience in day to day life are the porduct of generations of tradtition, not of malice or disdain, the "Femnazi‘s" ; need to see that, just as many men need to realize that just because something is based in tradition does not make it just or correct. Smile :)