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Opinions/Editorials Title: Corseted Minds: Does Fear of Irrelevance Send Conservative Men Fleeing to the Victorian Age? In the last 50 years, American women have finally been able to reliably earn a living, thus rendering men economically unnecessary. Women are outstripping men in education. We’re breaking the glass ceiling. Childbirth out of wedlock no longer carries disgrace. There’s enough sperm stashed away in banks to promulgate the human race indefinitely. On a biological level, modern science has debunked the Adam’s rib story about the female being a derivative of the male. Still more shattering, there’s even worry that the Y chromosome is in danger of extinction. At the very least, it has seen better days. As the New York Times recently reported: “Men, or at least male biologists, have long been alarmed that their tiny Y chromosome, once the same size as its buxom partner, the X, will continue to wither away until it simply vanishes. The male sex would then become extinct, they fear, leaving women to invent some virgin-birth method of reproduction and propagate a sexless species.” That’s gotta make Rick Santorum nervous. (Though the Times does concede that men may have “long-term viability” after all). Conservatives find themselves in an era of technological advance, information on steroids, women on the rise, and men who do not know what their role is supposed to be. Can we be surprised that they look back wistfully on a “simpler time” when gender roles were strictly defined – and when men did the defining? Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 74. As Joyce Appleby explains in her book The Relentless Revolution, it was capitalism that helped let the Angel out of the house, driving the medical breakthroughs that made the development of reproductive technology possible. And it was capitalism that withered away the bonds of power between men and women that for millennia had been based on male religious authority, and replaced them with bonds based on economic value. The priest no longer determined what women are for. The advertisements in Vogue, maybe. But not the priests. This is the postmodern paradox that conservatives must contend with. And it's driving them absolutely bonkers just now. No wonder "real conservatives" are so cranky.
#11. To: lucysmom (#1) Liberalism/feminism really is a mental disorder. The only reason why girls are doing better in "education" is because the system punishes boys for being male and tests kids on feelings over facts. Smart parents don't let heir male children become part of that system.
#22. To: diva betsy ross (#11) Liberalism/feminism really is a mental disorder. Indeed. Feminism has done more harm to women than anything men could ever do.... Women cannot compete in the same venue, with men, because men compete with each other, as men. A woman who comes along, trying to be a man, is a joke. Generally speaking, men fight with each other every day. They want to be tough, "macho," whatever.... IF a woman uses the assets God gives her- femininity and charm- she can get a man to do anything she wants.... He's at work, or at a football game, or in the garage... and with a smile, she can get him to drop whatever he's doing, and take out the trash (as a simple example)... And he has no idea that she has that power.... If she's really smart, he'll never know that she has the power in the house... Feminism alleges that a woman can be a man. I don't understand why real women would ever want to give up their power, for that. An old Russian expression: The man controls the rudder of the ship; the woman holds the ship in the palm of her hand. THAT'S the truth.
#30. To: Capitalist Eric (#22) Indeed. Feminism has done more harm to women than anything men could ever do.... Feminism was invented by old dried up musty Leftard females who hadn't seen anything "hard" in years.. And they are using it to phuck with the minds of the women who do see something "hard" on a regular basis!!!
#39. To: CZ82 (#30) Feminism was invented by old dried up musty Leftard females who hadn't seen anything "hard" in years.. And they are using it to phuck with the minds of the women who do see something "hard" on a regular basis!!! Bet you'd be surprised to learn that feminists like men more than women who are not feminists. Despite the popular belief that feminists dislike men, few studies have actually examined the empirical accuracy of this stereotype. The present study examined self-identified feminists’ and nonfeminists’ attitudes toward men. An ethnically diverse sample (N = 488) of college students responded to statements from the Ambivalence toward Men Inventory (AMI; Glick & Fiske, 1999). Contrary to popular beliefs, feminists reported lower levels of hostility toward men than did nonfeminists. The persistence of the myth of the man-hating feminist is explored.
webcache.googleuserconten...ersity+of+Houston&ct=clnk Of course men with your mentality, CZ, might have a different experience. I assure you that any hostility directed towards you from women is due to your boorish behavior as exemplified by your remark quoted above, and not because of your gender.
#72. To: lucysmom (#39) Of course men with your mentality, CZ, might have a different experience. I assure you that any hostility directed towards you from women is due to your boorish behavior as exemplified by your remark quoted above, and not because of your gender. Oohhh well, sometimes the truth just isn't politically correct... (Just ask Jack he'll tell you)....
#73. To: CZ82 (#72) Oohhh well, sometimes the truth just isn't politically correct... (Just ask Jack he'll tell you).... There you go - flattering yourself again. Who is jack?
#74. To: lucysmom (#73) There you go - flattering yourself again. Judging from some of the other posts on this thread I would say I'm not the only one who thinks feminism sucks.... It's just another argument the Left is losing just like abortion... Why do you think they started the contraception speil with Sandra Fluke.....
Jack Nicholson....
Replies to Comment # 74. Judging from some of the other posts on this thread I would say I'm not the only one who thinks feminism sucks.... So what? I could care less.
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