@failures art,
I haven't read alot of feminist literature, although I've always been appalled at and vehemenly opposed to oppression of any sort directed at anyone, but listening to this video I was thinking, 'What the heck?' Yeah, I can't even begin to agree with any of the authors she cited. I kept thinking to myself, 'Have any of these women ever given birth to a son?'
You know people are people. The fit and able should help and take care of the vulnerable and infirm, irrespective of gender. I was just reading about the thirty year old bride who died in the Italian cruise liner that sank-her new husband was helping his 74 year old father get to shore. If I'd been on that boat with my son and daughter and my father - yeah- I'd have looked after my father first, knowing my daughter is fit and strong and would have a better chance on her own than he would.
Yeah, feminist 'literature' almost always leaves me thinking that they're describing some other woman's experience. And maybe they are and maybe that's necessary - but I can't relate to it at all. I have never felt oppressed by men in my lifetime. Maybe I've just been lucky. Actually - I'm usually more wary of other women than men. Sometime's women are there own worst enemies.
(Note - I'm talking about during my lifetime in the United States and the United Kingdom- I am well aware that around the world there are many women who are oppressed and still treated as chattel and YES - I am against that. But no - I can't at all relate to the inherent evilness of men **** that seems always to be a component of feminist 'literature').
You know, it's like the other day I came home from work and my son says, 'Mom, did you read about the American marines who peed on the dead taliban-ese guys?'
And I said, 'Yeah, but the fact that they're American has nothing to do with what they did- they're idiots- that'd be like saying, 'Did you read about the black soldiers who peed on the dead bodies of their enemies, as if the fact that they're black is what influenced their decision to treat nothing as sacred and act like idiots.'
Men who mistreat women are violent and cowardly - but it's not because they're men - it's because they're violent and cowardly.
And the fact that there's less of it now speaks to that. It's the culture that has changed and has influenced behaviors - it's not that the blank slate little baby boys being born today are different from their male forebearers. It's how they are being acculterated that has changed.
If men were innately incapable of compassion and nurturing and kindness - acculteration of not - we wouldn't see the changes we are seeing.
And he woman who chopped off her husband's penis is mentally ill and anyone who can laugh at that and try to find justification for that sort of behavior is just as sick in my book.
She didn't do it because she's a woman - she did it because she's a cowardly spiteful, twisted person.
I also agreed with penis mom- totally.
That principal should be ashamed of herself. I wouldn't want her influencing my daughter.