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Male-bashing : Comments

By Peter West, published 20/1/2006

Peter West asks why the Australian media is so hostile to men.

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What have l, as a 30-something male learnt thru the last few decades?

Simple...
1. all sex is rape
2. all men are latent rapists, men are hardly able to look at a bikini clad non-male without being at risk of going on a rape rampage thru the streets, Cronulla riots style
3. all men are potential child molesters, thusly men who apply for teaching and caring jobs are looked at as 'dodgy'
4. man is evil incarnate, the poster boy of depravity and depradation
5. its a mans world, therefore every bad thing is our fault
6. any good man is the product of a good woman behind the strings pulling the strings, taking credit for the deeds of another and generally projecting thru a filter of vicarious living
7. blah, blah, pointless blah.

And you know what, as a man, l am encubered with a quite useful disadvantage of testosterone infused perceptual ability... l see thing as they are, l EMBRACE REALITY.

Talk is cheap and those that spend much time rationalising and justifying their delusions and denials are essentually INEFFECTUAL... hence their propensity to PROTEST TOO MUCH. The louder the bark the fewer the teeth.

Its all front. Most men and many truely independent (read resonsible and personally accountable) women already undestand this.

After yrs of being a male feminist, l have grudgingly come to the conclusion that the worst of all anti-feminists tend to be the majority of women who invalidate the laudible pursuit of equality with their 'equality only when its in my favour, l'll take the benevolent sexism the rest of the time' type of attitude.
Posted by trade215, Monday, 23 January 2006 7:07:07 PM
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The double standard is showing. The 'chip' and the slip of latent and overt anti-male hostility is showing. Us men can see it and increasingly are OPTING OUT and living only for ourselves. Free of encuberance, free of judgement, free of hostility, free of being the vassal of vicariously projected man-makeover projects.

And l gotta tel you, its a bit of a worry initially, but after a while, having surveyed the bloodied and broken bodies that strew the battle fields of the gender wars, l gotta say, having my psyche, spirit and balance sheet intact is utterly LIBERATING. Sure there's a life missed, but wot the hey, the grass is always greener on the other side.

The media essentially REINFORCES techniques that WORK. They appeal to male/female hostility because it exists and that is why it works. Funny thing is that people are abandoning mainstream media en masse. l wounder how long the media will play the same old game before it becomes redundant. It almost already is. Hell, with a big enuff hard disk and a bunch of DVDs, one nedd never watch a commercial or banal, vapid, empty headed news hour ever again. Before we can learn to think for ourselves we must deprogramme the propaganda that infects our minds. Unplug so to speak. Thank god that some nerdy men with their under utilised rape extensions put all that unrequited rape tendency into inventing and building the INTERNET.

Actions speak louder than words. The louder the words the less the action.

Anyway, yes ladies, l agree...
Anything a man can do a woman can do, only BETTER.
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

Right you are... you dont need us and are better off without us and that message is reinforced by the media. What, my sisters, are YOU going to do to IMPROVE the situation?
Posted by trade215, Monday, 23 January 2006 7:07:20 PM
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Kaep,that is a very long bow;sounds like you're robbing Hood to pay the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Posted by Arjay, Monday, 23 January 2006 7:09:45 PM
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"Bias against men is so ingrained and so common that most people don’t even notice it. "

-No kidding. To add a real life example, your faithful air carrier Qantas has adopted a policy that no child traveling without a parent on any of their flights is ever seated next to any male passneger. Ever. Even if the man has to change his seat. Really!

Why is this? I asked Qantas, and in a reply email they said it is because "they take child safety seriously", and they "make no apologies" for their policy.

Anti-male bigotry is so ingrained that, even when confronted, the bigots themselves lack the perspective to see what they're doing. That is because society -in all the ways described in the article-adverts, shows, press coverage etc. creates an atmosphere in which such bigotry is not only acceptable... but is in many cases "de rigueur".
Posted by Yogi, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 1:31:40 AM
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t.u.s, Unions have many very capable women running them in fact if you put your specs on you may notice the A.C.T.U. the governing body of the Union movement has a lady President, and she replaced a lady President, you are on the ball as usual mate.

The lady PM question, we are in agreement there, I think Julia Gillard would make a much better PM than little Johhny also, of course on merit.

It's Time for women to take their rightful place in society, please ladies whatever creed you belong to, please join a political party, and bring your femine ways to to bear on the influence of Government, let's face it, you can't possibly do any worse than what has preceeded you.
Posted by SHONGA, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 3:56:38 AM
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Decades ago it was said by some anti-feminists that if any important job was filled by a woman twice in a row, that job would then be unimportant. It is with horror that I see that in the case of the President of the ACTU, this prediction seems to be coming true. She is very rarely mentioned in the daily media and almost none of my friends know her name. OK I admit it, I can't remember it either.

Many people seem to believe that the world is run by men and that all men benefit from this. I believe that it probably is controlled by a small number of mostly men, but they don't give a toss about most other men. So if they have a newspaper, TV channel or ad agency to run for a profit, they will do whatever it takes, and if that includes making men look like bumbling incompetents and targets for abuse, so be it.

Constant iteration of messages in media must surely have some effect.

cheers.
Posted by Whistle, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 9:08:03 AM
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