Archive for June 22nd, 2005

News Flash: Boys and Girls are DIFFERENT!

I know what you are thinking:

“Oh, Lord, Ole Bob has started drinking again.”

But, honestly, the idea that boys and girls were the same was Sacred Writ in the 1970s. It was the first line in the Feminist Bible. In order to be professor, you had to swear to the idea that the only difference between little boys and little girls was that little boys were given toy guns to play with and little girls were given dolls.

The reason for this was to force little boys into the role of ruler and aggressor and little girls into the slavish role of child-bearers for the men. The whole thing was a male plot to dominate women.

I am not joking. That was Gospel on campus. Society had conspired to keep women “barefoot and pregnant.”

More than once a woman would find I was a right-wing Southerner and she would say, “If you had your way, your wife would always be barefoot and pregnant.”

Liberals don’t believe in stereotypes, you see.

My reply was, “I appreciate the compliment, but all I could really guarantee would be the barefoot part.”

Most feminist leaders followed their own advice and never got pregnant. But a few years after the movement was at its height, a stream of articles began to appear that was written by feminists who had actually had a child or two. They all reported, with amazement, that a little boy and a little girl were different before they could walk.

No toy guns. No dolls. They seemed to be BORN different!

Gosh, what a surprise!

Back in the 1950s every ad for a horror movie always showed a beautiful woman being attacked by a male beast or a male murderer, or being carried off by same. In the 1970s this was held up as an example of Society forcing women into the role of victims.

They ignored the fact that half of the people seeing those movies were female.

Men as aggressors is not a mind-set that is exclusive to men. Every serial killer who goes to prison finds a stack of amorous letters from women.

I tried to be fair, and wondered if aggressive females get the same kind of fan mail.

Well, somehow I doubt that Elena Bobbitt gets a whole lot of marriage proposals, but I could be wrong.

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