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.
#1 by Elizabeth on 06/22/2005 - 10:03 pm
I agree. The liberal stereotyping has produced a new stereotype: “Women are always warm, nurturing and supportive.”
We may seem that way to men, but, speaking as a woman from a family with an acute lack of male blood kin over the age of 25, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We women can turn on each other with a verbal savagery that can reduce a strong man to pale, trembling shock. (Gentlemen, please, just stay out of these battles!)
#2 by H.S. on 06/23/2005 - 11:03 am
Elizabeth knows whereof she speaks!! A writing that Bob had in one of his weekly articles a few months back mentioned that in passing to help make his point. I’m not sure others who have not been so unfortunate as to have experienced it, quite let it sink in. “Women need men just to keep them from killing each other.”
Way to say it Elizabeth.
#3 by Bob on 06/23/2005 - 6:37 pm
HS, I was thinking about what you were referring to, and it was probably a quote from a female writer: “A woman has no pity. She has love, but that is different thing. She has no pity.”
Notice that in that case I followed your advice and Elizabeth’s warnings perfectly. I used a quote from a woman for other women to judge. I left it between you and her.
I sayed out of the line of fire.
Disgression is the better part of valor.
But, when it comes to getting into a battle between two women, abject cowardice beats the hell out of both of them.
#4 by H.S. on 06/23/2005 - 10:50 pm
However, IMO men who understand this and are able to deal with those under their influence are highly esteemed by most women who then can get the job done effectively, efficiently in peace. I am not one who supports or supported the mass entrance into the general workforce by women. We are still paying the price.
Some may recognize that a sign of a nation about to collapse is that it is run by women and children. It is the opposite of their design and it will NEVER work as a way of life.
The pressure against real men and real women is phenomenal. My heart goes out to young people. In any way I can, I make myself available to help them.
#5 by kane on 04/21/2006 - 2:43 am
I don’t know, a lot of these femenists think that Men should be slaves to Women. Nobody really cares about equality I find, those who say they want equality (minorities) want supremacy. When they get equality, they won’t stop there. They will try to put whitey in his place. The same is true for these radical feminists.
I believe in sexual tendencies, I also think there is a great range of variation within the sexes. Families should figure out their roles on their own. The Government has no place dictating it, whether to help Women with “quotas” or to keep Women from working.