I'm not going to put words in Rastus' mouth, but I THINK what he was trying to convey was that our political discourse has been skewed heavily toward the issues that concern women since they ratcheted up their involvement in politics from the '60's onward. In other words, things like Social Security, universal health care, reproductive rights, and public safety are all things that most women care about. And some have used these issues to advance a very socialist agenda, an agenda that is very hostile to our 2A rights. Therefore if men want their issues heard and acted upon, they must get reengaged in the process and start working to reshape the debate.
If one watches the local or national news, one will notice that many of the reporters and anchors are women. Naturally, they are going to report the news from a view point that relates to women. I'm not suggesting that there is some grand cabal out there trying to emasculate the men in the political discourse. But if one watches the news, even the advertising on television, is made for and heavily promoted for women.
And before any slams me for being a chauvinist, I gave a much broader and deeper speech in college on this subject and the intellectually honest women and men agreed with me. The ones who had an ax to grind attempted to marginalize and discredit me.....
I agree on a lot of the facts and I think its a good thing. If I'm hearing you correctly you are saying:
1)50% of our population stood up for themselves and are now represented. Bringing in a new perspective brought new issues into political prominance, as what was considered private and "apolitical" when men didn't have to do it, all of a sudden became a matter of public concern; just like workplace issues like wages, hours and freedom of contract were always political because they were mens issues. Having women reporters meant that issues pertaining to women that had been ignored by men, became newsworthy, because just like men, women tend to address those things they feel most strongly about.
2) Advrtisers are now catering to this new species known as "woman". Largely because both male and female researchers finally noticed that women watch more TV and do most of the household shopping, even in two income households. Its just like how the media discovered old farts.I swear to God, I diagnose myself with a dozen different diseases and know the namee the wonder pill to cure them just from watching an hour of cable news. Wheres Geritol when you need it? Its called following the money.
As far as 2A stuff goes once again its because hunting and guns and the military were considered a male thing. No girls allowed the club house. Don't trouble yourself little lady, you've got a big strong man to protect you. You wonder why women aren't as into this as men are? It just wasn't part of the culture. Doing ROTC in the late eighties I was with the first generation of women who could expect to be taken seriously as officers. Even then the patriachal, patronizing views that women were too delicate to be in combat, kill somebody or horrors be captured and raped (as though tihs never happens to male POWs), were offensive to lot of my male classmates. The thing is we reap what we sow. BUT with ccw laws, the take back the night movement a strong, individualistic sense of feminism that tells women my age (pushing forty) and younger that they won't be victims ,we are seeing a marked increase in women getting involved in defense issues and the shooting sports. Its just like women's sports, you want them to get involved take them seriously.
Equality, respect and capitalism. As a good libertarian, I like it!! Girls are Cool
fightingquaker13
What a load of crap. Look at the Presidents we had BEFORE women got the vote, Lincoln, TR REAL statesmen, look what we've had since. Kennedy, carter, Clinton,now this piece of crap. That turd Kerry got votes because he "had nice hair".
The excessive female influence on America culture is why we are over run with genderless touchy feely metrosexual slugs.
The average American "male" (I will not call them "men" because they aren't) has only 2 things on his mind, nailing some twenty something bimbo with big boobs and pacifying the domineering pseudo dyke he's married to.
Think I'm wrong, what's all this "uni sex" crap, hair stylists, 30 brands each of deodorant, after shave, etc. If you fart at a bean supper you'll be just about run out of town.
The genders have their places in the world, you can't saw a chicken into lumber and you can't fry a tree.
I'm a MAN, I EARN my living by WORKING, I burp and fart and when I sweat I stink. I don't respect phonies, and I think Nancy Pelosi's husband would back hand if he had any balls left but he's from Ca.
and any one offended by that can kiss my unperfumed, butt.
Rant Off
I started this post disgusted by the attitude of "all hail the sacred female" then I decided to rub every ones nose in how wimpy we have become .
The truth is that men and women have had their equal place in the scheme of things all through history. They are equal, OPPOSITE halves of a whole, the role of the woman , because of how she is built is to run the house, bear and raise children. They are responsible for the healing arts, herbalism, teaching and other things that involve emotion. poetry and romance were invented to impress women.
Mans place has been to support the house, hunting, defending, building, that's why men develop more muscle mass than REAL women. And in NORMAL times man is the undisputed leader of the pair because man works on logic instead of emotion.
This society that we have created that requires both parents to work outside the home has disturbed that balance and we are paying the price for it with crime because of an illogical emotion based legal system that thinks "punishment" is mean.
That is why we are being invaded by Mexico, because actually enforcing our immigration laws isn't "fair" to a bunch of people who screwed up their own country and now they want to do the same thing somewhere else, like slash and burn farmers.
We're paying for it with a worthless education system because comparative testing makes the dumb and the lazy "feel bad", it's not "empowering",we are paying for it with a budget deficit that is heading toward 3 times the total value of all production on the planet, because every dead beat, leach, and loser "deserves".
Well hey, tough. Life is hard and just like capitalism in business, in the real world not every one succeeds and the ones don't die.
I know some one will bring up Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, Golda Meir, Margret Thatcher etc etc. They were flukes, that's why they stand out from the crowd. You want to see where we are headed with our "gender neutral" society ? They have been governed by effeminate twits for a 1000 years, more concerned with their curls and their "pagentry" than accomplishing anything of actual substance. And they have been broke for about 800 years , they are the only European nation to loose a war with MEXICO. France is a joke and we are heading down the same path.
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