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By Andee Jones, published 24/10/2014It isn't just the Barry Spurrs of the world. The male of the species is in deep trouble and he doesn't seem to have the foggiest notion why.
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No sensible person would disagree with Kathleen Barry's views on war but again we run into the the issue which stands out in Andee's article, some groups of men are pre-disposed toward violence and the key visual indicator is the amount of melanin in their skin.
Even if we recognise that in western societies the vast majority of violent acts are committed by men we still have to accept that in sub Saharan Africa and the Pacific men commit violence at ten to twenty times the rate of westerners.
If you want to focus an anti war movement on White European males, the least violent men on the planet and get them to stop fighting in order to pull the rug out from under "patriarchy" then Barry's plan could work. However it's not going to be useful in, say Lae or Freetown because the men there are not capable of the level of introspection or rational thought required to commit to such a course of action.
Look this whole argument, Barry's included is so deeply flawed because it pretends to be colourblind then apportions blame for all the trouble in the world on less than 5% of the men in the world,the White European males.
You can't end war by asking the most peaceable and amiable men in the world to stay home with, as the leader of ISIL put it "the wifey and the doggy and the benefits" and good luck trying to deliver Feminist critique of masculinity to the men of Monrovia or Lagos or Detroit.