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It's already started - the gender inequity in coverage. Just last week during the appeal filed on behalf of Andrea Yates, there was a highly sympathetic recount of her crime (the drowning of her young sons) and how emotionally disturbed she had to be, and how she would suffer the rest of her life for her crime. They had violins playing in the background. Oh, yeah, her husband. Bummer for him too.
Just today, I saw some coverage of this latest example of psychotic female violence, and the female commentator was saying something like, "I know this crime seems unimaginable to us, but we have to understand that to Montgomery (the killer) this was a solution to a problem. She must have been very desperate." So, why do we have to understand if we already understand? It's quite simple. She's a fucking psycho. Just because she's female doesn't make her a benign psycho killer.
It's also unimaginable to me that we are supposed to summon up any sympathy for this Montgomery. It would be like saying, "We really have to understand how desperate Scott Peterson really was. He was trapped in a situation where he saw no other way out." Oh, and Mr. Stinnett? Why waste any sympathy on a man? They have no feelings to understand.
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If "verbal communication skill" is measured simply by the volume of words coming out of one's mouth, I think I might give them that one.
In my opinion, the most significant feminist redefinition is that of "equality" itself. In the feminist mind, "equality" is no longer quantifable standard, it is subjective and open to interpretation. Women no longer want to be held to such oppressive male methodologies, they simply want to feel equal. This is how they can demand lower standards for themselves and call it "equality."
Even "equality of results" is a myth, since women only apply such a standard when it benefits them. The 60/40 percent female to male ratio of college enrollment illustrates this. Suddenly we stop hearing about discrimination and start hearing about female superiority, ala verbal skills etc. It isn't actual equality women are interested in - that is, equality with equal responsibility. They want to create a culture in which they oppress men in ways equal to that in which they perceive themselves as being oppressed by men. They are twisted and obsessed and always will be.
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It was 2 1/2 years ago that I got an annual evaluation at my high tech job. Everything was satisfactory, except for a category called "Leadership" in which I got a "needs improvement" rating. Since I was not a team lead, I asked my manager who I was supposed to lead. There were only 5 people in our group, and I reminded her that I was showing a test engineer how to debug and fix code problems. I got no specific response, and I figured lots of people got a "needs improvement" check in case the company needed to let people go.
I also noticed in the same "Leadership" category, there was a section called "Support of Affirmative Action." Personally, I am against AA because I believe it justifies discrimination against me because of my race and gender. I sent a note to the HR director asking for a copy of the AA policy I was required to support. She answered back indignantly that she didn't have a written policy but that it was "the standard Affirmative Action policy that all companies have." I suggested since there is no written policy, that the AA support requirement be removed from evaluation forms. I did not get back a response.
Two months later, there was a round of layoffs, and I was the only software engineer to be included in the "reduction of force." Although I am quite sure my questioning of AA (and the fact that all of HR was female, and my manager was female) was the real reason for my layoff, I can't prove this of course. I think most HR departments know how to cover their asses in these circumstances.
In any case, I have used the time off from work to write my book, The Rantings of a Single Male, which I consider payback to the very large and very smug director of HR. For those interested, I am currently waiting on the proofs to come back. Then it will be printed, then it will be on Amazon. Time to Amazon should be 4 to 6 weeks. It will really stir the pot.
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Not to prove you wrong, Dr. E, but to remind you, I was at the Men's Rights Congress in DC last June. Of course, I haven't been a large presence here on your forum.
My take on iFeminism is that it has a very positive slant on men's rights, and for that Wendy deserves a lot of credit. From my perusing on the iFeminist forum, the impression I've gotten is that men who criticize feminism are looked upon as having less of a right to express such views as women. That is, women can be anti-feminist because they know feminism better. Men who are anti-feminist are anti-woman, and need to restrain themselves. I think that's the basis of the comments we are hearing on this thread. Women are allowed to express frustration with male behavior, but men are still oppressors of women (thus, the name "feminism" is retained at iFeminism) and as such, men are not in a position to criticize without some measure of female filtering and approval.
There does seem to be tolerance for standard feminist viewpoints on the iFeminist forum - even while those views are refuted in articles by Wendy and Carey Roberts. This has led me to conclude that iFeminism is the Bahai version of feminism (as I will state in my upcoming book.)
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I think you're onto something Dr. E, except the problem reaches far beyond the monetary realm. Women don't always go for the cash, they want to extract goods and services from us as well. So, I'd say the equivalent to sexual harassment would be sexual manipulation.
In a work environment, men should be able to file "sexual manipulation" complaints against females who try to get us to do their work by flirting with us and implying sexual interest in us. Women would have to attend manditory manipulation seminars to assure they understand that teasing in the workplace is not acceptable. Flirtations with men would be considered abuse unless followed up by actual sex. Male victims would be able to file complaints anytime after the manipulation occurred. After all, it may take a year or two for them to realize it happened. Women accused of sexual manipulation would be given the choice of resigning, or making good on her implied offer of sex.
The situation is different with spouses or girlfriends who threaten us with sexual deprivation unless we meet their specific demands du jour. This goes beyond manipulation, and should be recognized as a form of emotional and sexual abuse of men. These women should be required to attend therapy to understand that their behavior is abusive and typifies the female hegemony. This therapy is only completed once women have deconstructed their need for fanancial and material gratification.
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I happen to believe females are quite capable of playing any instrument at high levels of competency, including electric guitar. In theory. I've certainly seen young women excel at the violin, which is no small feat. So why don't they play electric guitars? The strings are softer than an acoustic. I think it's because for females to become involved in music they have to start very young. Their parents have to drive them to practice, and at that stage in their lives, girls (like boys) strive to gain the approval of their parents. And of course there are few parents who push girls to play electric guitar.
However, with the advent of the teen years that all changes. Boys become fascinated with the rock sound and culture and involve themselves in it by learning to play. They obsess over the music and technique without any parental approval. And of course, at that age there's the female approval factor. On the other hand, when girls hit their teen years they know they can gain immediate adoration from the boys just by wearing a short skirt. Why spend all that time learning electric guitar rifts when shopping gets better results? Girls at that age are not into music, they're into themselves. If they haven't already started playing an instrument by then, forget it. Teenage boys are different in that way. Many of them begin playing at the age girls quit.
And yes, all beginning bands suck and need to be told so. Boo Hoo. You can blame the crowd, or go off and practice with the determination to not suck.
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My feedback:
"It floors me every time I hear that Clara Harris is some kind of heroine for murdering her husband, even if he was cheating. Since when do hurt feelings legitimize any action by a female? "Her survival instinct kicked in?" WTF?? Are you people insane? This has even less credibility than your news department. CBS used to be a great network. As far as I'm concerned you can all go to hell."
I guess that's why they call women "survivors."
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Wow, 30 whole days. Sure hope she can recover from this terrible misunderstanding. Certainly this has never happened before.
On her record it will only say "filed false police report" instead of "false rape accusation." Why isn't the false accusation itself a criminal act?
I noticed a group in th UK is doing something to protect themselves:
http://www.factuk.org/welcome.htm
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I'd say, the only issue I have with this is whether or not Wells has any public funding. I'm assuming not, since they are not being forced to comply with anti-discrimination laws. They just want to increase revenue and enrollment. I think private schools should be able to be male or female only. The Citadel had problems because of public funding. So, in this case, I don't care. I just hope they have to do the same "bend over backwards" routine for new male students like the Citadel did for women. Make sure none of the men are harassed or tormented in any way, and if they are, charge the female perpetrators with civil rights violations.
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activist said:
If anyone can get ahold of this guys work do it!
What an amazing work of literature.
Incredibly funny and very well written. I had been meaning to write this guy a letter and thank him for the version I was allowed to read. Awesome stuff. Like his critics have said"nothing has ever been written like this before." And its true. RantMeister is the new Masculine demigod of heterosexual politics.
ALL HAIL Rantmeister...
Thank you sir for the extremely kind words! I am humbled. I was hoping some of those copies I passed out at the Men's Rights Congress last June actually got read. Though I'm not looking to be a demigod, it
is my intention to provide a work of men's rights literature that men in general will find compelling and engaging. Your comments are very encouraging in that regard.
Thomas,
Yes, the pre-edit version I gave you at the conference has a number of revisions. Thanks to the feedback I got from you and others, I think it is a much better work now. Feel free to email me and I'll help if I can with your book project. I'm also running into that lace curtain. My editor only agreed to work on my book if I agreed not to reveal his identity. He's afraid of getting blackballed by all the female-controlled publishers. They consider any work that does not worship women and validate the pop-feminist world view as hate literature.
To anyone interested, I'll do my best to get the book out within the next few weeks.
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Since being laid off 2 1/2 years ago, I've been writing a men's rights book of my own. It's a work of literature more than an academic study. Although it has lots of facts and some research, it is mostly story-driven. Much of it centers around a German feminist I was involved with for 30 years, and my observations of her life choices. There are also my recollections of the rise of feminism in the 1970s, thoughts on political correctness, diversity, homophobia, women's history, women's sports, women's spirituality, pornography, affirmative action, paternity fraud, gender norming, and disasterous encounters with American women. It is a non-fiction work full of dark humor and disturbing realities.
The book has been professionally edited, and is now stuck in revision mode (where it has been for several months.) I'm in the process of trying to make it available on Amazon. To do this, I need to do the page layout in either Quark or Pagemaker, then get some copies printed locally, start my own mock publishing company, and get an account with Amazon. Certainly my book will have no chance of acceptance by a major publisher. In fact, a few months ago I contacted a local self-publishing company run mostly by women, and after reading a sample chapter they wouldn't even return my phone calls! How dare a man have an opinion? And that's self-publishing! I was hoping they would at least flame me. It's the equivalent of getting blackballed during the McCarthy era.
In any case, I hope to have the book available within a few weeks. The title will be:
The Rantings of a Single Male
Losing patience with feminism, political correctness... and basically everything.
I post occassionally on MANN as TLE.
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I like the concept of your movie rating site. One obvious thing that's lacking is a category for the number of violent acts committed against the male genitalia. This will be useful to MRAs to show how prevalent such male specific assaults are in the movies today (and help me decide if I should bother to see it).