Men's Memes: Support research into prostate cancer

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Support research into prostate cancer

Most charity fund-raising efforts annoy me with their intrinsic pointlessness. For example, if someone asks to be sponsored to do a walk or run for charity, or, even worse, to do something like shave their head, I just think that they could be doing something intrinsically more useful AND raise money for charity at the same time. Imagine if someone went around saying: "I'm going to go and clean up the local lake, would you sponsor me to do so, and all the money will go to cancer research?" That way the person would be expending their energy on something useful to the wider community AND raising money.

Anyway, all that is just a prelude to me introducing this great little keyring that I bought in Marks and Spencer's this morning. They have them for sale on the cash-desks for £2 and I highly recommend all my readers in the UK getting one. Typically these kind of charity products are things like lapel pins, badges or wrist-bands. The trouble is that most men will not want to wear such things. I certainly don't. But this keyring is useful. It has a little detachable metal ring on it the same size and weight as a £1 coin. This is for times when you need to use a locker or shopping/airport trolley (hence you get the coin-shaped-circle back again), great for the gym or swimming pool. Here is the website for the charity that is selling them: www.Prostate-cancer.org.uk

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Anonymous said...: Great Stuff, Darren.

AH; 7:38 am

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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."