Men's Memes: A small sign of female entitlement

Friday, September 29, 2006

A small sign of female entitlement

I was travelling back from London last night after a long working day which began at 4.20am. I was sitting in a corner of the first class carriage at the back of the train watching 'Where Eagles Dare' on my PSP when the ticket inspector came around. I showed him my ticket and he nodded. He then moved on to a young man sitting a little way opposite me. It turned out that he had an ordinary ticket but wanted to upgrade it to first class. The ticket inspector then made a fairly big fuss about the fact that the man should have upgraded before he got on the train and sat in first class. One sentence would have been enough, but the inspector went on and on about it, I felt quite embarrassed for the guy. The inspector then moved on to a young women in the carriage. In her most girly, pathetic voice she admitted she also didn't have a first class ticket. Well, the reaction from the inspector this time couldn't have been more different. He spoke to her in a kind tone of voice and didn't tell her off as he had done to the young man only seconds before. Once the girl found out how much the upgrade cost she said to the inspector "Oh I don't think I'll bother, I'll go and sit in the ordinary carriage". When I got off the train 25 minutes later she was still sitting in first class.

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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."