Men's Memes: Urban myths that spread man-hatred

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Urban myths that spread man-hatred

Women who claim to be victims of 'date-rape' drugs such as Rohypnol have in fact been rendered helpless by binge-drinking, says a study by doctors.

The pattern repeats over and over. A man (or in this case, many men) are assumed guilty before being proven so, and a huge amount of hysteria is whipped up in the media demonising them. Then later the truth comes out, but because the mood has passed, the information barely registers on the publics' consciousness and the damage has been done. If a woman, a corporation (or in rare cases, an individual man) had that kind of media attack on them they would be able to bring a lawsuit and seek compensation for the damage to their reputation. But make up all sorts of lies about men - one in four abuse their wives, one in four are rapists, they think about sex every 7 seconds, vast numbers of them are paedophiles etc etc - and the media can just get away with it. So now, rather than taking responsiblity for their own drunkeness, such women have just perpetuated this urban myth that men are drugging their drinks. And look at the enthusiasm with with people have believed this! People are just so primed to accept anything which shows women to be poor little victims and men to all be evil schemers.

Here is the same kind of thing in action again:

Last summer, lurid headlines claimed that 40,000 women would be smuggled by sex slavers into Germany to be prostituted to World Cup football fans. The truth is very different indeed. Newly unrestricted European Union documents reveal that the German police uncovered just five cases of ‘human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation’ related to the international football tournament.

and again with the Duke rape case hysteria, and again with the current misleading hysteria in the UK that only a tiny minority of rapes result in prosecution (misleading because they are comparing the number of allegations with the number of convictions, a method which is not used in juding the ratio of crimes to prosecutions in any other area), and, famously, the feminist hysteria over the myth that Superbowl day causes a huge increase in violence against women.

But remember folks, all feminism is about is equality for women, right? Thats what the appologists always say. "Oh we only want equality. We only want women to have equal rights and pay. Why are you so against that?"

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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."