By Alphabeta Supe
Today is an auspicious day. It is 1/1/11 – an appropriate date for a new beginning. It is the beginning of a new era in gender relations. I hereby declare 2011 the Year of Men.
Enough is enough. It is time to end the most appalling and reprehensible chapter in modern Western gender relations. It is the year that pro-VAWA lobby groups will be held accountable for their part in the rising number of unpunished false rape claims. It is the year that men falsely accused of rape receive adequate compensation for their shocking losses. It is the year unpunished mutilators like Lorena Bobbitt cease being glorified and get their just desserts. It is the year women are indicted equally for domestic violence crimes against men. It is the year publicly funded hospitals stop giving preferential medical treatment to women. It is the year the female orgasm is no longer worshipped. It is the year the White Knight and the Mangina are de-horsed and re-masculated. It is the year Hanna Rosin and her ilk are silenced for the patently ridiculous fools that they are. It is the year schools and teachers stop treating our sons like second class citizens. It is the year that Marriage 1.0 is restored to the righteous believer and Marriage 2.0 is abandoned as the feminist abomination that it is. It is the year we pull our wives, sisters, mothers and daughters back from the brink of self-destruction. It is the year that feminism is finally recognised as economically unfeasible.
Gentlemen, let us begin. There are 1684 universities around the world that have a Women’s Studies program. I challenge all men, each and every one that reads this, to select an article from The Spearhead or your favourite Men’s Issues blog or your own take on an issue of concern and send it, or a link to it, to every staff member at the ‘schools’ listed below. There are now literally thousands of outstanding articles articulating why feminism has failed but they are doing precious little if they aren’t being poured into the inboxes of the movers and shapers of feminist ‘thought’. Select schools in your home city and staff with your initials – that should give us a good spread. Warren Farrell titled his book well “Women Can’t Hear What Men Don’t Say…”, so I challenge you to speak your mind where women will hear.
The schools are listed here:
http://www.artemisguide.com/ (USA)
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/programs.html#outside (International)
To get you started, here’s an email thread of mine to the head of Women’s Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada from last week. Hopefully readers of The Spearhead can do a little better:
From: Alphabeta Supe
To: [email protected]
Subject: Celebrating 2011 The Year of Men
Dear Dr Isaacs,
The quote on your website by Lya Sorano pines impatiently thus:
“When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going at this current rate, we will achieve full equality in about 475 years. I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait that long.”
Now, correct me if I’m wrong, Dr Isaacs, but talking about equal work for equal pay is not the same as doing equal work for equal pay. Likewise, extorting concessions from the state under the pretense of catching up is not the same as ‘catching up’ (if that’s what feminists are calling the privileged life of Western women these days).
I’ve got it – instead of working towards abolishing alimony, ensuring equal father custody of children, supporting mandatory paternity testing, supporting the male contraceptive pill, supporting jail terms for false rape accusers that are equal to those meted out to rapists, supporting full public disclosure of rape accuser identities, teaching young women to shoulder equal burdens and responsibilities as men and how to produce more than they consume, and anything else that would render them truly equal, why not run a Women’s Studies and Feminist Research school at a prominent university, teach young women how to distort history, avoid accountability, evade responsibility, lie to themselves and their loved ones about almost everything they ‘need’, produce narcissistic, self-rationalising, entitlement princesses who think nothing of exploiting legal privilege to break the spirits, backs, balls and bank accounts of hard-working, loving men who make the world sufficiently prosperous, comfortable and safe for women to be able to actually go to college, then coerce them under threat of ex-communication from the sisterhood into believing that unbridled self-interest and unabashed self-expression are virtues, call all of this ‘work’ then sit back and let ‘equality’ come rolling in on the next wave of state-sponsored wage inflation, sociological distortions and cultural misandry?
Oh, sorry, you’ve already done that. Never mind.
Sincerely
Dick
From: [email protected]
To: Alphabeta Supe
Subject: Re: Celebrating 2011 The Year of Men
Thank you for being interested enough in what we do to read the quotes on our website. Based on your expressed (mis)understanding of our discipline, It looks as if you never taken any courses in women’s studies. If you do wish to comment intelligently on this discipline, you might benefit from some wider reading on the relevant subject matter. If you want to further educate yourself in this area of study so that you may make a more informed comment on it, I would be pleased
to suggest a list of readings to help get you started.
Best wishes,
Tracy Isaacs
Hi Tracey,
Thank you for your email. I must say your use of shaming language was as delicious as it was anticipated. The more widely I read in the discipline of Women’s Studies, the more it becomes apparent that the capacity to increase academic knowledge in this astonishingly preponderous field is neither a function of intelligence, as you’ve suggested, nor wisdom. Indeed, it would seem that intelligence, in particular, is of far less benefit than the ability to manipulate facts to suit the mission of the day and to rationalise feelings. Thankfully, however, I’ve been blessed not only with intelligence and feelings but also reason, being a man and all, so I expect this will allow me to slow the endlessly-spinning hamster wheel of feminist rationalisation long enough to examine the thin axle of truth at its centre. Consequently, I’d be delighted to consider your proposed list of starter readings and decide for myself whether or not they qualify as ‘education’.
Regards
Dick
Dear Dick,
A good introductory text is: An Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World by Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan (McGraw-Hill, 2001).
More recently, a wide-ranging anthology worth looking at and available on Google books is: Handbook of Gender and Women’s Studies edited by Davis, Evans, and Lorber (Sage Press, 2006).
For some historical context in the political liberalist framework about women’s social position, see: John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women,1869 (also a google book).
If you are interested in some philosophical essays by Martha Nussbaum on feminist philosophy in a global context, see: Sex and Social Justice, 1999.
I do hope you find these readings worthwhile and interesting even if they do not reflect your understanding of the way the world is.
Best wishes and happy new year.
Tracy Isaacs
Hi Tracey,
Thanks for the reading list. I’ve come across the Mill’s work several times, as well as a number of Nussbaum’s muscular rationalizations about power inequality. I’ve not given the latter much credence due to her apparent lack of recognition of the functional role of the power differential in most successful relationships – i.e. as the primary contractual motivator. I will, however, take this opportunity to delve deeper into Mill and opine about whether Nussbaum’s work qualifies as Women’s Studies, or ‘philosophy’ or ‘ethics’ that happen to be written by a feminist, or merely the echoes of an intelligent woman calling out in the endless empty chambers of academic self-interest. Hopefully, I’ll then be in a position to understand from whence comes the perception that a Women’s Studies professor in London, Ontario, is a reliable arbiter of “…the way the world is”.
I’ll revert in a short while with an analysis of this material from a rationalist, non-feminist perspective. Please accept my best wishes for the season in the meantime.
Regards
Dick
1.Just an afterthought for those that might want to take this ball and run with it. It might be worthwhile putting in the ‘Subject’ line of your email – “Celebrating the Year of Men”. Or something to that effect.
2.Just an afterthought for those that might want to take this ball and run with it. It might be worthwhile putting in the ‘Subject’ line of your email – “Celebrating the Year of Men”. Or something to that effect.
That’s all it needs, friends – a salty, but courteous and clean dose of accountability. It may begin with a trickle but I assure you than will become a torrent that may well decide the fate of a nation. Please honour the women who respond favourably and hold the women who don’t accountable by posting any encouraging, Interesting or ‘colorful’ comments below.
2011 – The Year of Men.
