Our correspondent at large just sent us a link to "
Why feminism is sexist" (
Sacramentum Vitae, September 3, 2011) by Mike L., adding the following remarks:
My fight was with a female who is a Democrat, a Journalist, and a Christian with a big heart. All her life she thinks she has been dealt the lesser hand. It has always been a man's world, and we can't do too much to encourage and help women. Women make less. Women were forced to quit careers to have children. Women leaders would mean far fewer world wars. Women clerics would mean less weirdness over sex. And so on. And so on.
I would send it on to her, except I don't think it would solve anything, simply reopen the arguments. In my book it all comes down to whether you chose to resent or to embrace the differences in the genders. And the more you embrace them, the more those who are not as blessed with the 'gender distinctives' will feel marginalized. A tough situation.
Maybe I should have been Amish!
Anyway, I would have entitled the piece
"Why Feminism Now Diminishes Men"
One choice quote:
Friedrich Nietzsche explained as follows why he opposed "equality" for women: "Women will never be satisfied with mere equality. The war between the sexes is eternal, and peace can only come with victory and the total subordination of men." In its time, that witticism was merely flippant. But no longer is it merely flippant.
Enjoy.
Why would you think that statement flippant? Sounds like insight to me.
ReplyDeleteI have long felt that feminism diminishes men, but apparently feminism also now diminishes women - in number, that is. Lot has been written lately about how many more baby girls than boys are being aborted through sex selection in huge countries like China and India - to the point where the natural ratio of male to female has been altered, with mind-blowing ramifications. A woman's right to choose comes full circle.
ReplyDeleteMarytoo
Only dupes and dolts are satisfied with "equality." Equality is a word depicting a mathematical relationship. In social matters, it has no content whatsoever. Its use is as a glittering generality by this or that group to camouflage what they are really trying to do: manipulate the law to their advantage. Why the law? Because the law can be enforced by men with great big guns. Law trumps custom, tradition, social etiquette, religious morality, etc. You want "equality"? The short term solution is to bribe a judge; the long term solution is to portray yourself as a piteous victim and make alliances with other such victims and the politicians who love them. Pretty soon, your face will be on a stamp.
ReplyDeleteAnd so, the fact that women have succeeded in making the law an extension of what was once quaintly referred to as "feminine wiles" can only be recognized as a great step forward in sexual equality, right?