FathersCan asks what would the public and media reaction be if the wording was somewhat different and reflected a male perspective about dangerous women? The reader can use their imagination Would a 'Men's Resource Centre' be allowed to display something akin to this (even were there to be such a resource centre which there isn't) So? Hate Speech or Not? Does the Law allow this? Not for men to do for sure.
Friday, January 29, 2010
University of Ottawa Women's Resource Centre- Hate Speech
FathersCan asks what would the public and media reaction be if the wording was somewhat different and reflected a male perspective about dangerous women? The reader can use their imagination Would a 'Men's Resource Centre' be allowed to display something akin to this (even were there to be such a resource centre which there isn't) So? Hate Speech or Not? Does the Law allow this? Not for men to do for sure.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
National Post editorial board: Women's Studies is still with us
If the reports are to be believed, Women’s Studies programs are disappearing at many Canadian universities. Forgive us for being skeptical. We would wave good-bye without shedding a tear, but we are pretty sure these angry, divisive and dubious programs are simply being renamed to make them appear less controversial.
The radical feminism behind these courses has done untold damage to families, our court systems, labour laws, constitutional freedoms and even the ordinary relations between men and women.
Women’s Studies courses have taught that all women — or nearly all — are victims and nearly all men are victimizers. Their professors have argued, with some success, that rights should be granted not to individuals alone, but to whole classes of people, too. This has led to employment equity — hiring quotas based on one’s gender or race rather than on an objective assessment of individual talents.
Executives, judges and university students must now sit through mandatory diversity training. Divorcing men find they lose their homes and access to their children, and must pay much of their income to their former spouses (then pay tax on the income they no longer have) largely because Women’s Studies activists convinced politicians that family law was too forgiving of men. So now a man entering court against a woman finds the deck stacked against him, thanks mostly to the radical feminist jurisprudence that found it roots and nurture in Women’s Studies.
The equality protection before and under the law, granted to all Canadians regardless of race, sex, creed or origin, has been eroded because feminist legal scholars convinced the Supreme Court to permit preferential treatment for “traditionally disadvantaged groups,” chief among whom, they contend, are women.
Over the years, Women’s Studies scholars have argued all heterosexual sex is oppression because its “penetrative nature” amounts to “occupation.” They have insisted that no male author had any business writing novels from women’s perspectives; although, interestingly, they have not often argued the converse — that female writers must avoid telling men’s stories.
They have pushed for universal daycare and mandatory government-run kindergarten, advocated higher taxes to pay for vast new social entitlements and even put forward the notion that the only differences between males and females are “relatively insignificant, external features.” All other differences are said to be the result of patriarchal brainwashing. So the only way to ensure gender equality is to turn over all education to the state, where professionals can ensure only unbiased instruction.
In sum, there would be little of rational worth left even if Women’s Studies were to disappear. Yet despite all the handwringing by the programs’ supporters, are the worst elements of Women’s programs really disappearing or just being renamed? Are the professors different? Has the basic philosophy behind the program changed? Has the curriculum been altered?
In most cases the answer is no. Little has changed but the nomenclature.
While we’d like to cheer and say “Good riddance,” we’re certain such celebration would be premature.
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by Tossed Salad 3:23 PM
by Sassylassie 3:39 PM
Tossed got a rain coat the spit is going to fly.
by Skulldug 3:39 PM
These vindictive females should all be charged with hate crimes, even though their target is the last acceptable bigotry in Canada. At least, that's what my Mom, sister and aunties say.
by Aidanist 3:41 PM
Also, there are few Women's Studies authors that have preached the "all sex is rape" philosophy, and I think the only one who got any traction was Mackinnon - and even she is misquoted by her opponents.
I don't really agree with the rest, and I think your editorial over-generalizes their support for new programs or the difference that support might make (who cares what they think anyway?), but I just thought those inaccuracies might need clarification.
by Peter Alward 3:44 PM
by Tossed Salad 3:52 PM
by Rectificatif 4:04 PM
This week, CBC radio in Alberta is running a series on 'domestic violence'. Said series started off cautiously, with a social worker who claimed, correctly, that the vast majority of the cases that "went through the justice system" were of male violence. But he did not report that the vast majority of male victims of (female) spousal abuse *do not report it to police* which is why only the female victims get to court in the first place.
Then, today, a female police officer referred to all putative victims as "she." Said police officer then admitted, with pride, that she was the child of a mother murdered by an abusing father, and that she had entered the policing role, essentially, to avenge her mother. Oh, that's a useful bias, isn't it, especially for the 50% of actual abuse victims who are fathers, not mothers.
Secondly, I wish to commend the NP for its restraint, especially in the language it uses. To refer to "Women's studies scholars" and even to "feminist professors" is to err on the side of elaborate courtesy.
In actuality, there's no such thing as "scholarship" among the feminists. Every bit of these "studies" and even the novels that reflect it, is blantant cherry-picking of data to construct an anti-male world view, with the awowed aim of "seeing the word through feminist eyes."
Finally, a sampler of the more subtle effects. Calgary Herald ran an editorial yesterday exploring the virtues of unisex education in the middle schools. Said editorial explored ways in which boys might be taught in all-boys classes. We currently know, for fact, that many boys are disadvantaged in our grossly feminized educational system.
As an example of sex-segregated education, it said that the boys might learn "art" and "drama" better in unisex classes.
That's right, folks. Female teachers, crudely anti-male, better able to teach your sons how to do the female-identified subjects better.
So, would it even occur to the editorialists that there is virtue in the male-identified subjects? Or, how persistent and systemic anti-male policy really is?
by hunter902 4:10 PM
Going thru university, my daughter said she was glad to have taken the course, but appreciated the fact that she didn't have to subscribe to the man-hating subtext in the course because of the way she was raised to believe all people were equal. I asked her if she thought others in the class were prone to thinking the same way, and sadly she remarked that most bought into how they are still "victimized" by men in anything they try and do.
At one point, when a class discussion around the sins of men became far too brutal for her, she stood up and asked them all if their fathers, brothers, uncles, and grandfathers were to be included in this group of horrible men. Apparently, it got very quiet in the room. I told her then that I couldn't be more proud.
Womens' Studies as it is now serves to keep women as victims, rather than encourage them to be strong and tolerant, as they who create this, pretend it to be.
by BWA 4:17 PM
by justcommonsense 4:18 PM
by littlerunninggag 4:21 PM
Did you actually just say that feminism causes 'ethnic ghettos'?
Can you please explain how feminism causes poverty within ethnic minority groups? Bonus points if you can manage it without sounding incredibly bigoted.
by Rectificatif 4:40 PM
The word "rape" may not be associated with the word "sex" in the McKinninist fashion, as often as the editorial suggests. However, ALL sex is associated, by Women's Studies, with POWER. And ALL power relations are COERCIVE. And the male has more physical power than the female, and then, there's "penetraton." And therefore, the idea of rape is implicit in all of heterosexuality in all of feminist ideology. At best, having sex with a man is a sort of condescension to passion and to males.
Secondly, Aidanist might not appreciate the genesis of these "studies." They come from lesbian authors, not "feminist scholars." They are very often taught by lesbian faculty. If not, they are taught by lesbian-compliant faculty -- even by males who are selected for their ideological subservience to anti-male ideology.
And therefore the bias is not only anti-male, it's anti-heterosexual; and millions of young women go through these "studies."
All humanities curricula, whatever the discipline, contain what's called "theory," in essence, a training in the examination of culture as ideology. Said "theory" classes give GROSS priority of place and of authority to feminism, much of it clearly anti-male. And millions of young women go through this.
Aidanist must view the film (or play) "Oleana" by David Mamet. Mamet's language is highly stylized and so the film seems stiff and un-real; however, the situation that his play posits is not only real, it happens on campuses every week.
by seekingtruth 5:24 PM
by ScndVrs 5:30 PM
by Tossed Salad 5:56 PM
I need a good laugh, where's mel and icon?
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Still crying in their beer from last weeks loss in the election in Massachusetts.
by arbyburns 6:56 PM
*I'm not a fan of women's studies, but I do like accuracy*
Well, then, Aiden, you won't like what's below...
*the Charter is the reason judges must consider disadvantaged groups and women specifically, not women's studies advocates or professors. There are two separate sections of the Charter that protect some affirmative action measures and specify gender as something that cannot be discriminated against.*
Nothing at all in the charter says that it must `favour so-called disadvantaged groups' - as, of course, the second clause you cite would put paid to any such Women's Studies-fostered `reading into' the CoR.
As it is, judges disregard the Charter outright, as much as they apply it, in their version of `judicial activism' (i.e. judicial autocracy).
A few years ago, for instance, the SCOC ruled that law could ban `third-party' advertising during election time, even tho. such a ban was explicitly contrary to the CoR.
Their reasoning? It was all for `electoral fairness'.
In other words, a completely made up `right to electoral fairness' trumped the rights in the Charter, as you say, `that are actually there.'
Some Osgoode Hall student just got a fail, i'm afraid.
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by Denis Pakkala 11:57 PM
The end of "women's studies" or discriminatory feminists is nowhere in sight. These programs are being re-labelled as "gender studies" with the same misandrist academic bias.
Cutting funding to all feminist special interest groups (SOW) and media outlets (CBC!) would be a good start.
The radical feminists recently have become less vocal in defense of their privilege, they are avoiding debate altogether. There is far too much research (ignored by the msm) that exposes their bigotry.
Judges, Lawyers, Politicians, Police, Social Workers and Teachers are all trained in the feminist ideology that women are victims of men.
We are witnessing the demise of a moral, ethical and just society. Why aren't more people speaking out?
by MikeMurphy 12:06 AM
"In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent."
Catherine MacKinnon
"Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism."
Catherine MacKinnon" Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (First Harvard University Press, 1989), p.10
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The Rebranding of Women's Studies Courses in Academia
An interesting discussion occurred on the CBC's The Current radio show recently between the host and two journalists.
In the radio interview Barbara Kay will argue these courses are recruitment mechanisms into an ideology of feminism. The Toronto Star Reporter, Catherine Porter will whine about women not being representative in positions like partners in law firms and that same old argument Parliament. She will posit these courses are designed to get fresh ideas so women can have it all, a career, motherhood, vacations and maybe even a husband. Barbara will describe it as the Utopian ideal. Marxism was one of those same Utopian ideologies from whence feminism came.
What Porter fails to realize is women can have these things but only if they get a partner who will look after the children and is prepared to make the same sacrifices as a man by working long days and commuting great distances. The other option is to stay single and get a nanny or not have any children at all. There are choices but what Porter really means is lets just appoint a certain number of women to these positions (the old quota game) so they don't have to do it on merit and then they can have it all. Nothing much has changed in the feminist song book despite the much larger proportion of degrees granted to females over males. Its still an entitlement mentality and women deserve to be placed on a pedestal.
Recruiting feminists must be losing its appeal at Canadian Universities so the resident feminist faculty are trying to lure new recruits by new marketing techniques. When a business wants to refresh its product it assigns the
"New and Improved Label". The professional feminists in academia are re-branding, re-positioning and trying to attract men too would you believe. They aren't necessarily pushing masculinity mind you but if you are male and gay you may just qualify as part of the "gender" portion of the re-branding. If you are a transsexual or transvestite you qualify. Have you seen the label they use for the gay community now. It is LGBT or is an initialism referring collectively to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. You all may qualify for study along with women. That opens up to a larger more inclusive audience - doesn't it? If you are a male - does that increase your interest?
At McGill University in Montreal the new branding in March 2009 gives us the name
McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF)
"The McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) examines social perspectives on women and women's contributions to society."
You see the emphasis is on women but it is hoped the new name will attract more men and women of different sexualities and diversities.
Here is a sampling of these courses:
WMST 200 (3) Introduction to Women's Studies . Offered in the: Fall
This course introduces students to theoretical positions and topical issues in the broad, interdisciplinary field of Women’s Studies. This course aims to demonstrate how “women” is applied as a social and political category imbued with certain, yet contested meanings depending on place and time, and cannot usefully be considered a self-evident effect of biology. Students are introduced to a great variety of analytical tools and topical intersections that will enable them to entangle seemingly natural and obvious truth claims regarding the meanings of gender, sex, sexuality, and feminism in contemporary societies. In addition to key academic texts, we will look at online material, view films and podcasts, and discuss news stories on matters such as gay marriage, sex trafficking, ‘hook up’ cultures, and creative new reproductive strategies.
Elisabeth Engebretsen
MWF 1:35-2:25 pm
WMST 301 (3) Women's Studies Current Topics 1 . Offered in the: Fall
Topic for Fall 2009: Queer Cultures: Gender systems and sexual meanings in a modern, global world
(Prerequisite: WMST 200 or PHIL 242 or permission of instructor.)This course explores alternative sexual and gender expressions cross-culturally, with an emphasis on the modern, global period, and ethnographic accounts of same-sex sexuality and non-normative and trans-gender forms. We examine how sexuality and gender intersect with formations of modern nation states, colonialism, religion, race, and ethnicity worldwide.
The course literature emphasizes accounts of people’s lived experiences in different yet intersecting cultural locations, through examples of identity formation, coming out practices, non-normative families incl. same-sex marriage, rights and recognition, and the globalization of queer identity and culture.
Elisabeth Engebretsen
MW 10:05am-11:25 am
The question remains - what do you do with a degree in women's studies after its all said and done? The purpose of the re-branding is to attract more students to keep the programs alive. There are only so many tax supported professional feminist jobs out there and with government cutbacks on the horizon they will be fewer in number.
by Les Bolschitt 12:08 AM
"Women’s Studies scholars have argued all heterosexual sex is oppression because its “penetrative nature” amounts to “occupation.”
Did anyone tell homosexual men about this?
When do they set up the dildo registry?
by MikeMurphy 12:21 AM
'I'm not a fan of women's studies,'
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Where is your white charger and shining armour oh chivalrous one.
My research into feminism clearly shows we are ruled by a very large number of eunuchs (the so-called Patriarchy) who actually take their orders - more than less - from their wives. We do not see legislation like shared parenting, despite the majority of Parliamentarians being male, because they are afraid of feminist backlash, not to mention bar associations who perceive they will lose business by not having the adversarial court room to pit parent against parent and bleed the financial heritage of the fought over children from their parent's pocket books.
Bar Associations have their own feminist divisions who get tax money to lobby against this kind of legislation. I always find it an interesting perspective to see my tax dollars going to rich lawyers to lobby against legislation that would be in the best interest of children.
Such is life in the feminist socialist utopia of Canukistan.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Feminist Hatred-A Compendium of: with Commentary by Jeffrey Asher
"The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist"
Ti-Grace Atkinson 1974
"Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice."
Ti-Grace Atkinson1996
"The price of clinging to the enemy [a man] is your life. To enter into a relationship with a man who has divested himself as completely and publicly from the male role as much as possible would still be a risk. But to relate to a man who has done any less is suicide.." "I, personally, have taken the position that I will not appear with any man publicly, where it could possibly be interpreted that we were friends."
Ti-Grace Atkinson, 1974,
"I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women."
Ti-Grace Atkinson in 'Radical Feminism and Love'
"The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist".
Ti-Grace Atkinson, Amazon Odyssey (p. 86)
"(Rape) is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear".
Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will p.6
"We are taught, encouraged, moulded by and lulled into accepting a range of false notions about the family. As a source of some of our most profound experiences, it continues to be such an integral part of our emotional lives that it appears beyond criticism. Yet hiding from the truth of family life leaves women and children vulnerable."
Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women.
"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness...can be trained to do most things." -Jilly Cooper, SCUM (Society For Cutting Up Men, started by Valerie Solanas)
"The simple fact is that every woman must be willing to be identified as a lesbian to be fully feminist."
Shelia Cronin, National Organization for Women Times, Jan.1988
"Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage."
Sheila Cronin, prominent member of NOW
"Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience."
Catherine Comin -Vassar College. Assistant Dean of Students
"Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the Women's Movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage."
Sheila Cronin, in Radical Feminism - "Marriage" (1970), Koedt, Levine, and Rapone, eds., HarperCollins, 1973, p. 219)
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their oppressors.
Evelyn Cunningham
"Men are from another planet, sent here by spaceships to copulate with female earthlings and propagate the species—a task for which science has rendered them all but redundant. We need keep only a handful of donors on a sperm farm for that purpose, where they can subsist on pizza and beer and Playboy magazine."
Rose DiManno-Toronto Star, January 11, 1999
"If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males."
Mary Daly, former Professor at Boston College, 2001.
"How will the family unit be destroyed? ..The demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that women can begin establishing a community of work with each other and we can fight collectively. Women will feel freer to leave their husbands and become economically independent, either through a job or welfare."
Roxanne Dunbar, Female Liberation as a Basis for Social Revolution, New England Free Press, 1974)
"Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies."
Andrea Dworkin
"I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig."
Andrea Dworkin, Ice and Fire, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1987
"Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman."
Andrea Dworkin Liberty, p. 58
"The newest variations on this distressingly ancient theme center on hormones and DNA: men are biologically aggressive; their fetal brains were awash in androgen; their DNA, in order to perpetuate itself, hurls them into murder and rape."
Andrea Dworkin, Letters From a War Zone, Dutton Publishing, 1989, p. 114
"Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her.' Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination."
Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, Penguin, 1979)
"Rape is the primary heterosexual model for sexual relating.
Rape is the primary emblem of romantic love.
Rape is the means by which a woman is initiated into her womanhood as it is defined by men.
Andrea Dworkin
"On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom."
Andrea Dworkin
"Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left...is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity."
Andrea Dworkin
"Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies."
Andrea Dworkin
"Men, as a group, tend to be abusive, either verbally, sexually or emotionally. There are always the exceptions, but they are few and far between (I am married to one of them). There are different levels of violence and abuse and individual men buy into this system by varying degrees. But the male power structure always remains intact."
Message on FEMISA, responding to a request for arguments that men are unnecessary for a child to grow into mature adulthood.
"All men are rapists and that's all they are"
Marilyn French, Authoress; later, advisoress to Al Gore's Presidential Campaign.
"All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women... All women learn in childhood that women as a sex are men's prey."
Marilyn French, The Women's Room, Summit Books, 1977
"The media treat male assaults on women like rape, beating, and murder of wives and female lovers, or male incest with children, as individual aberrations...obscuring the fact that all male violence toward women is part of a concerted campaign."
Marilyn French, The Women's Room, Summit Books, 1977
"My own informal survey of adult women suggests that very few reach the age of twenty-one without suffering some form of male predation--incest, molestation, rape or attempted rape, beatings, and sometimes torture or imprisonment."
Marilyn French, The War Against Women, Ballantine Books, 1992, p. 195)
"My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter."
Marilyn French, Author "The Women's Room"
"The media treat male assaults on women like rape, beating, and murder of wives and female lovers, or male incest with children, as individual aberrations...obscuring the fact that all male violence toward women is part of a concerted campaign."
Marilyn French
"I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.".
Sylvia Fraser Journalist
MALE: represents a variant of or deviation from the category of female. The first males were mutants...the male sex represents a degeneration and deformity of the female.
MAN: an obsolete life form... an ordinary creature who needs to be watched...a contradictory baby-man...
From 'A Feminist Dictionary; ed. Kramarae & Triechler, Pandora Press, 1985
"Women have their faults- men have only two: everything they say and everything they do."
Popular Feminist Graffiti
"The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race."
Sally Miller Gearhart, in The Future - If There Is One - Is Female.
"[Men are] freaks of nature... full of queer obsessions about fetishistic activities and fantasy goals."
Germaine Greer, The Whole Woman, Knopf, 1999
I have a great deal of difficulty with the idea of the ideal man. As far as I'm concerned, men are the product of a damaged gene. They pretend to be normal but what they're doing sitting there with benign smiles on their faces is they're manufacturing sperm. They do it all the time. They never stop.
Germain Greer
"If women are to effect a significant amelioration in their condition it seems obvious that they must refuse to marry."
Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, McGraw-Hill, 1971, p. 317)
"...men bash women because they enjoy it; they torture women as they might torture an animal or pull the wings off flies."
Germaine Greer, The Whole Woman, Knopf, 1999
"The man regards (woman) as a receptacle into which he has emptied his sperm, a kind of human spittoon."
Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, McGraw-Hill, 1971)
"Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release."
Germaine Greer
In an interview Germaine Greer (radical feminist, writer) was asked the question, "You were once quoted as saying your idea of the ideal man is a woman with a dick. Are you still that way inclined?" Greer first denied that she had said it, and then replied, "I have a great deal of difficulty with the idea of the ideal man. As far as I'm concerned, men are the product of a damaged gene. They pretend to be normal but what they're doing sitting there with benign smiles on their faces is they're manufacturing sperm. They do it all the time. They never stop. I mean, we women are more reasonable. We pop one follicle every 28 days, whereas they are producing 400 million sperm for each ejaculation, most of which don't take place anywhere near an ovum. I don't know that the ecosphere can tolerate it."
Germaine Greer At a Hilton Hotel literary lunch, promoting her book, The Change-Women, Aging and the Menopause, Knopf, 1992 from a news report dated 11/14/91)
"The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together…. Whatever its ultimate meaning, the breakup of families now is an objectively revolutionary process…. No woman should have to deny herself any opportunities because of her special responsibilities to her children…."
Linda Gordon in "Functions of the Family," WOMEN: A Journal of Liberation, Fall, 1969
"And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference."
Susan Griffin
"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have. He does not have it not because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it."
Former US Congresswoman
Barbara Jordan
Clearly you are not yet a free-thinking feminist but rather one of those women who bounce off the male-dominated, male-controlled social structures. Who cares how men feel or what they do or whether they suffer? They have had over 2000 years to dominate and made a complete hash of it. Now it is our turn. My only comment to men is, if you don't like it, bad luck - and if you get in my way I'll run you down.
Letter to the editor, signed: "Liberated Women", Boronia Herald-Sun, Melbourne, Australia - 9 February 1996
"Marriage has existed for the benefit of men and has been a legally sanctioned method of control over women.... Male society has sold us the idea of marriage.... Now we know it is the institution that has failed us and we must work to destroy it.... The end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women. Therefore, it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not to live individually with men."
Nancy Lehmann, Helen Sullinger, Declaration of Feminism, 1971
"Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire, respect, and need women also feel for men. Always man-hating is shadowed by its milder, more diplomatic and doubtful twin, ambivalence."
Judith Levine
"I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not only for the anonymous man who makes sucking noises on the street, not only for the rapist or the judge who acquits him, but for what the Greeks called philo-aphilos, 'hate in love,' for the men women share their lives with--husbands, lovers, friends, fathers, brothers, sons, coworkers."
Judith Levine, My Enemy, My love
"There are no boundaries between affectionate sex and slavery in (the male) world. Distinctions between pleasure and danger are academic; the dirty-laundrylist of 'sex acts'...includes rape, foot binding, fellatio, intercourse, auto eroticism, incest, anal intercourse, use and production of pornography, cunnilingus, sexual harassment, and murder."
Judith Levine; summarizing comment on the WAS document, (A southern Women's Writing Collective: Women Against Sex.)
"Men's sexuality is mean and violent, and men so powerful that they can 'reach WITHIN women to fuck/construct us from the inside out.' Satan-like, men possess women, making their wicked fantasies and desires women's own. A woman who has sex with a man, therefore, does so against her will, 'even if she does not feel forced.'
Judith Levine
"All men are good for is fucking, and running over with a truck". Statement made by A University of Maine Feminist Administrator, quoted by Richard Dinsmore, who brought a successful civil suit against the University in the amount of a $600,000.1995 settlement Richard had protested the quote; was dismissed thereafter on the grounds of harassment; and responded by bringing suit against the University..
"We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage."
Robin Morgan.-From Sisterhood Is Powerful, (ed), 1970, p. 537
"I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."
Robin Morgan.-former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and editor of MS magazine
"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire."
Robin Morgan.
"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire."
Robin Morgan.
"And let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism--the lie that there can be such a thing as 'men's liberation groups.' Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group, specifically because of a 'threatening' characteristic shared by the latter group--skin, color, sex or age, etc. The oppressors are indeed FUCKED UP by being masters, but those masters are not OPPRESSED. Any master has the alternative of divesting himself of sexism or racism--the oppressed have no alternative--for they have no power but to fight. In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men--but in the short run it's going to cost men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily. Sexism is NOT the fault of women--kill your fathers, not your mothers".
Robin Morgan.
"All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman."
Catherine MacKinnon
"Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism."
Catherine MacKinnon
"You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs."
Catherine MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses of Life and Law – Sex and Violence: A Perspective, Harvard University Press, 1987
"All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman."
Catherine MacKinnon
"Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism."
Catherine MacKinnon" Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (First Harvard University Press, 1989), p.10
"In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent."
Catherine MacKinnon
"You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs."
Catherine MacKinnon (Prominent legal feminist scholar)
"When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression..."
Sheila Jeffreys
FMS stands for: Full of Mostly (Bull) shit; For More Sadism; Felons, Murdereres, Ssumballs; Frequent Molesters Society
From a February 1995 handout at the "Stone Angels" satanic ritual abuse conference in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. The conference was supported financially by the Ontario Government
"Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated."
Margaret Sanger
"The most merciful thing a family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it."
Margaret Sanger, founder of planned parenthood
"To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo."
Valerie Solanas, Author of the SCUM Manifesto (SCUM=Society for Cutting Up Men)
"[Males should] "...go off to the nearest friendly suicide center where they will be quickly and painlessly gassed to death."
Valerie Solanas, Author of the SCUM Manifesto (SCUM=Society for Cutting Up Men)
"Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex."
Valerie Solanas
"The male likes death--it excites him sexually and, already dead inside, he wants to die... The male is, by his very nature, a leech, an emotional parasite and, therefore, not ethically entitled to live, as no one has the right to live at someone else's expense."
Valerie Solanas
'To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo."
Valerie
Solanas Scum Manifesto
"If the classroom situation is very heteropatriarchal--a large beginning class of 50 to 60 students, say, with few feminist students--I am likely to define my task as largely one of recruitment...of persuading students that women are oppressed,"
Professor Joyce Trebilcot of Washington University, as quoted in Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women.
"Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex."
Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men.)
"Masculine sexuality involves the oppression of women, competition among men, and fear of homosexuality." "Rape is the end logic of masculine sexuality." "Male sexuality is negative."
Introductory texts for Women's Studies Courses at UCLA including: "More Power than We Want: Masculine Sexuality and Violence" by
Bruce Kokopeli and George Lakey [Cited in TNV]
I wondered if the woman married to a pig had read this ... Did that mean that all over the globe, in all innocence, women were marrying beasts? ... Why are so many men really beasts? "
Jeanette Winterson "Oranges are Not the Only Fruit" 1993, pp.71 -76
(Nazi propaganda referred to Jews as 'pigs,' 'intolerable,' and 'subhuman'. )
Commentary:
"Imagine the response if women's studies classes taught students that minorities are evil [Jews, blacks, Asians, Italians] and then advocated that the path to freedom was segregation, including the refusal to hire minorities or allow any into your home. And imagine the uproar if feminists announced that the root of the world's problems was actually mixed - race sex. All of these rants would be condemned as racism. And this is sexism - just what we are supposed to be fighting. For countless young women, [and men] the feminist movement doesn't only look absurd, it looks hypocritical."
Renée Denfeld: The New Victorians Warner Books Time Warner 1996
This is sexism. This is terror propaganda. This hatred is no different from racism, xenophobia, or religious bigotry. All men and women deserve to be treated with equal respect and dignity in education. Do your part to discourage and end sexism, along with all forms of hatred.
Half of the human race is condemned because it is born male. Some men also express anti-male hatred, just as members of other groups have slandered their own members. All males are thus condemned: your father, grandfathers, brothers, uncles, sons, lovers, friends, classmates, professors, employers, and co-workers.
Replace 'men' with any other group: Jews, Blacks, native peoples, or women, and read those claims aloud to friends. Teachers and students should not tolerate such slanders. 'Patriarchy' theory is a conspiracy theory. Those who call men 'pigs' and 'rapists' are no different from haters who use words like 'bitch', 'nigger', or 'kike'. Some misandrists laugh at violence against men, and others justify offensive violence against men. Would you laugh if someone joked about violence against Asians? ... Arabs? .Homosexuals? Speak out against prejudice. Teachers and students should not tolerate such slanders.
You have the right to complain, whether you are male or female.
Professor (Ret'd) Jeffrey Asher
Ottawa
Thursday, October 29, 2009
A Mangina Journalist makes sport of female on male violence ~ Go ballistic to protect the family jewels
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Re: Go ballistic to protect the family jewels - Liberals make it harder for men to defend themselves
You are making light of a vicious assault on a man. Would you do the same had the gender's been reversed. Not likely I do believe. Your editors are far too feminized and sanitized for that. We have copious numbers of manginas working in journalism who are clearly unable to see the double standard they represent when publishing such - whats that word - oh yes - drivel.
Next time you want to seem funny at the expense of another man look in the mirror and ask yourself - would I do this if it were about a female. It is a very simple test.
You are no David Letterman whose squirrel jokes are in far better taste than yours and that's not reaching a high plateau. Just ask his feminist critics or Sarah Palin. I do like Dave, however.
Mike Murphy
Promote Bill C-422 Equal Shared Parenting

Liberals make it harder for men to defend themselves
For men living in Langley, or even just visiting, I offer the same advice I get from my neighbourhood squirrels: Watch your nuts.
It appears a woman randomly assaulted a man in Langley, by kicking him where it counts.
Anthony Clark says he was strolling along 200th Street when a young woman walked up and delivered a powerful blow to his groin with her foot.
The kick exploded his testicle, which had to be surgically removed, Clark says.
His description of the assailant -- young, slim, average height -- doesn't narrow the field enough to be very helpful.
"To say, 'Yeah, beware of all women walking down the street, that would be tough,'" says Langley RCMP Sgt. Don Davidson.
Because the victim didn't report any robbery, and random attacks by women against men are exceedingly rare, RCMP remain puzzled about a motive. The woman may be mentally ill, have an axe to grind against men, or there may be more to the story, Davidson suggests.
For men, I offer the following solution: Armour yourselves.
You have several choices, and one of them is on sale.
For $199.95 US, marked down from $249.95 until Saturday, Tamiami Armor is selling a Level IIIA "ballistic cup." This snazzy little number, made of high-tech ceramic like that used in military flak vests, is fitted into a companion jockstrap.
"It stops all handgun bullets," says a company spokesman, who inexplicably declined to be identified.
Given that we're talking about an attack in the Lower Mainland, where gang-war bullets could potentially fly anywhere at any time, this tactical device would serve a double purpose.
It would protect the family jewels from this female suspect as well as from gangsters' random slugs.
The problem is, you'd soon find your protected package snarled in red tape, as the provincial government is bringing in legislation to outlaw body armour for ordinary citizens -- except by special permit.
Banned will be any "garment or item designed, intended or adapted for the purpose of protecting the body from projectiles discharged from a firearm," the draft legislation says.
Fortunately, less-expensive protection is available, without a permit, at martial-arts equipment stores. At the low end, you can buy a $15 plastic cup with jockstrap, but considering the force of the blow received by Clark, these cups might not be up to the job.
"Being plastic, it's possible you could crack them," says Sam Logan, manager of Golden Arrow Martial Arts in Vancouver.
It makes more sense to spring for the $40 steel cup.
"It's a special order," Logan says.
Clark says RCMP told him constables had heard of three or four similar attacks in Langley.
Davidson says Langley Mounties are not aware of other such incidents.
"They're saying they never told him that kind of thing," Davidson says.
In the meantime, it may make sense to buy some protective gear.
When it comes to safeguarding the important things in life, it's better to err on the side of caution.
Just ask any squirrel.
http://www.theprovince.com/sports/ballistic+protect+family+jewels/2157287/story.html
Friday, August 21, 2009
Divorce law needs updating, but Tory's proposal is not the answer
Then we have the likes of the infamous man hater Rowan Kelly. See below for their comments. If this is as good as the "feminists for mom having everything after divorce" side gets its a pity. I expect better than that silliness. Thank goodness for loose cannons like her though because it clearly shows the kind of mentality that wants to discriminate against good dads.

Aug 21, 2009 04:30 AM
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(47)ANTONIA ZERBISIAS Take, for example, last year's Bill C-484, ostensibly all about protecting "unborn children" but definitely not, oh no no no, about limiting women's reproductive choices.
Until, of course, on the eve of the election, when it was killed because the Conservatives didn't want "to reopen the abortion debate." That, months after the bill had passed second reading.
Then there's the pesky women's equality thing.
In 2006, one of the first things the Harpies did was strip the word "equality" from the Status of Women's mandate – as if ensuring women's equality wasn't the ministry's raison d'être.
Then, last year, only after howls of outrage from feminist groups, did they sneak it back in. Not that it made a difference since they had already cut the funding necessary to advocate for equal rights.
Now comes C-422, An Act to Amend the Divorce Act.
It's a private member's bill introduced in June by one of the most socially conservative backbenchers in the government, Saskatoon- Wanuskewin's Maurice Vellacott. He is past co-chair of the Pro-Life Caucus, an advocate of creationism in education, a vocal opponent of gay rights and, lest we forget, so harsh in his criticism of former Conservative-converted-to- Liberal MP Belinda Stronach, that the word "prostitute" came up in his diatribe.
The good news is, private member's bills are rarely passed.
The bad news is, research shows that they influence government policy – and, as the record shows, often reflect party policy.
Just so you know where this is all coming from.
The main aim of C-422 is to automatically award "equal parenting" rights to both parents in a divorce decision because, as research shows, children have better outcomes when both mother and father are (positive) presences in their lives.
In other words, judges should presume that equal parenting is in the "best interests of the child," unless proven otherwise.
Which, at first glance, sounds great. Who can argue with the idea of an engaged, loving and caring father remaining involved in his child's life – and not just as an every other weekend, cheque- writing daddy?
I see the men on my street and in my neighbourhood so very much part of rearing their children, doing much more than manning the barbecue and ferrying them to hockey practice.
But marriages break up.
Many do so amicably enough, with couples working out their parenting responsibilities without dragging armies of lawyers into the courts which, by the way, now award joint custody in almost half the cases.
I also know great fathers who have struggled to maintain their relationships in the face of angry exes, who use the kids as pawns, cut them off from their extended families and worse.
Fortunately, such women are in the minority.
But C-422 will cause more problems than it will solve, say women's and legal groups such as the Quebec Bar Association.
In fact, last month at the annual meeting of the Canadian Bar Association, federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson was cheered when he hinted that, personally, he wasn't 100 per cent behind the bill.
To outline all the reasons that the bill is flawed, even dangerous to women and children, not to mention potentially costly to the court system, would take the whole page – and I don't have that.
But here's just one example: Among the secondary considerations a judge must take into account is whether there's "family violence committed in the presence of the child." If the abuse occurs behind closed doors, hey, no problem. That despite how research shows that, in half the cases of violence, the battering begins after separation.
Nobody is saying that our divorce laws, last significantly changed in 1986, don't need an overhaul. They do.
But C-422 is not the reform we need.
Not when you consider the source, the context and that Conservative agenda.
Antonia Zerbisias is a Living section columnist. azerbisias@thestar.ca. She blogs at thestar.blogs.com.




