Writing for The Independent, Michael Bywater takes a stand against the abuse being hurled at men – older men in particular – in his latest piece. The article, titled “In defence of the older man,” is a great read, and takes feminists to task for their hypocrisy, callous attitude toward men, and poor taste.
Amusingly, Mr. Bywater uses terms such as “gynocracy,” and brings up the “post hoc ergo propter hoc” fallacy that has popped up a number of times in our comments. It seems that more and more men, including those you might have thought were above it all, are coming to the same conclusions we are.
Here’s an exceprt:
And then, following on from the initial sally by Professor Feldman’s Private Widdle, come the professionals, in the shape of the Queen’s Own Daily Mail, led by the ineffably strange Liz Hodgkinson, a woman who not only went publicly on a perpetual sex-strike but somehow persuaded her husband to endorse it in public. I suppose one can see his point, but now Ms Hodgkinson is asking “Why are older men so stupefyingly BORING?” See, she’s been on a cruise and the men weren’t interesting. She’s been to a garden party and the men just “went round with bottles of wine in their hands” – where else should they be? – “filling glasses and saying nothing. They might as well not have been there at all.”
I imagine that they felt much the same. The main losers would have been Ms Hodgkinson’s twittering gynocracy, who’d have had to get their own bloody drinks instead of waiting for some chap, who probably felt completely excluded and ignored by the women, but all the same felt it a mere gesture of politeness to make sure the ratbags got their booze.
“When did most men in my age group become so stupefyingly dull?” asks Hodgkinson, and we’ll ignore the former Chief Constable who commented on Facebook that it was probably at about the point they started having to try to talk to her. Coppers. Institutionally sexist. Right.
Bywater is focusing mainly on the attack on older men, but feminism has gone so far at this point that every man on earth is targeted in one way or another. Hopefully, he realizes this, but it doesn’t really matter, because these random feminist assaults on men in general, as obnoxious as they are, have an edifying effect on men. Once one is exposed to their contempt and utter lack of decency, it tends to leave a lingering, rotten taste that is not easily forgotten.
