Men's Memes: Sexist Drivel in The Economist

Monday, April 17, 2006

Sexist Drivel in The Economist

Sexist Drivel in 'The Economist'

Check out the graph at the top of the article. It shows that the proportion of women working has been increasing since the 1920s, and the proportion of men working decreasing since then. Therefore the trend of more women entering the workforce had little to do with the efforts of the feminist lobbies, which only really started gaining power in the 1960s and '70s. So next time you hear people claiming that without feminism women wouldn't be allowed to work... you'll know its BS.

Now, the trends in modern education...

The grades that children get in the now feminised school system will have very little correlation how successful and wealthy those children will become through the next 50 years. Asside from the system being full of feminist and politically correct bullshit, its hopelessly out of date.

Preparing for the kind of middle class, routined work done by professions such as accountants, teachers, software programmers, medical technicians, doctors, and legal professionals is not going to be the easy route to economic security that it was during the second half of the 20th Century. Much of this work will be outsourced to countries with much cheaper workforces (and even those jobs which aren't out-sourced will involve Western workers competing with cheaper foreign workers - which will drive down wages). Then, as computer-based technologies continue to grow in power exponentially, many more such jobs will become automised, or at least have a much larger automised component to them.

(Incidentally, her comparison of the USA and Sweden to Italy and Japan is an eroneous one as the higher average birth rate in the USA is probably due to the large immigrant population, and Sweden probably has a higher birth rate due to very lavish state hand-outs to mothers.)

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Turn of the tide: feminists begin to regret

Cosmopolitan (The women's magazine that urges women to use men for sex) Editor Lorraine Candy has a change of mind and now urges women not to have "Soul-less sex":

"We didn't feel ashamed about one-night stands...this, we thought, is what feminism is about."

70s feminist Fay Weldon now says:

"It is the fault of me and my like, who... got it wrong.

So were we wrong, we feminists, setting women free? The results have been devastating – greater than we ever imagined.

We steamed ahead, changing the world with too little caution, and I hope the future will forgive us.

The pendulum has swung too far over. But it may yet swing back again. Societies, thank God, tend to be self-righting."

"Once a man could look forward to starting a family and the dignity that came from being the provider. Forget it. At best as a man you're decorative, look after the kids and earn a bit sometimes; at worst you're a write-off. Women are elbowing the men out. The boys get anxious, the girls swagger. The male suicide rate goes up, female down. Twenty-eight per cent of us now live in single person households - a lonely and unnatural state - and most of the 28 per cent consist of young men. It is strange that it is left to a woman to suggest, in the normal nurturing way, that men start some kind of movement to promote their gender's status and self-esteem - call it masculinism, brotherism, machoism, what you want - and some mark of the success of the feminist movement, that it needs to be done."

60's feminist Doris Lessing now says:

"It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests.

Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

An excerpt from an interview with Joan Rivers:

"She's not with the feminists when it comes to matters of the heart. For her, they're to blame for the current parlous state of our relationships, as depicted in these television Shows (Such as Sex in the city) and films. "I saw this coming. You cannot be equal to a man, you cannot make a man feel 'I don't need you' or 'I'll take my sex when I want it'. All these shows are so sad."

Camille Paglia :

"Women have been discouraged from genres such as sculpture that require studio training or expensive materials.

But in philosophy, mathematics, and poetry, the only materials are pen and paper.

Male conspiracy cannot explain ALL female failures.

I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant.

. . . Even now, with all vocations open, I marvel at the rarity of the woman driven by artistic or intellectual obsession, that self-mutilating derangement of social relationship which, in its alternate forms of crime and ideation, is the disgrace and glory of the human species."