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Suddenly men are mainstream news
- by Miss Stella, 15 October 2006
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Like, what's going on?
Suddenly we've got no end of "let's be nice to men" articles popping up all over the place. And just in the last couple of weeks too. Is feminism really dying? Are women starting to worry and f-e-e-l sorry for the plight of men? Have those unscrupulous politicians seen the errors or their ways? Have all these lefty media sources been stricken with attacks of guilt and become remorseful and man-friendly?
I don't think so.
And neither did Darren when he wrote the following article for us over 3 years ago, warning us of what he could see was beginning to happen, even back then.
And he was correct -
Kitten News
'Man-loving' feminists unmasked
"There is a new generation of sneaky feminism that is really growing this year [2003]. It doesn’t call itself feminism, in fact sometimes it calls itself anti-feminism, but look closer and you see the same old man-bashing bullsh' re-cycled from the feminist manuals of propaganda. It’s feminism coming through the back door."
Oh yes, so true. And despite the "oh-poor-male" mantle of the recent "let's be nice to men" articles, just as Darren wisely advised, "look closer".
Don't get sucked in.
You're being schmoozed gentlemen, by the Feminazi.
So let's take that closer look that Darren suggests at some of these recent articles.
In Australia, we've been getting the following sorts of articles, about once a week now, in an alternative opinion website called On Line Opinion -
On Line Opinion
‘Dissing’ men: the new gender war
"In a book reporting this research released in September 2006 by Palgrave Macmillan, it is argued that the negative portrayal of men and male identity in contemporary societies is not only a matter of concern for men, but also for women."
Well, that doesn't seem too bad, so what am I making all this fuss about?
But do you see the little excuse tagged onto the end?
"...but also for women."
That's the give-away. That's the tag and signal to make it legitimate and feminist acceptable. That's the code that indicates that what the message this writer is sending is not for the well-being of men, but really for the well-being of women. It covers his arse in case this article goes controversial or pear-shaped.
Now, if you knew the source of this article as I do, the University of Western Sydney - men's studies - and the academics who work there, then you'd have reason to become slightly concerned about the motives of its politics. And oh yeah, look here, the following is stated at the foot of the article -
"This article is based on research findings from a PhD research thesis completed in 2005 through the University of Western Sydney and published in Media & Male Identity: The Making and Remaking of Men."
Ah yes!
There it is. The "remaking of men". You can see it with your own two eyes. It's right in front of your face.
That's what these men's studies in academe are all about.
Men must change their ways, they say.
Same ol' same ol'. It never varies. The leopard never changes its spots and these femi-lefties never change their damn song - social engineering about men having to change their ways - whether you like it or not, whether men want to change their ways or not, it doesn't matter, they still go on flogging the same old dead horse. Talk about dinosaurs.
Furthermore, apart from the article being an unashamed promo for the author's own book, the main title - Media & Male Identity - begins to give us some good clues about why men and masculinity are suddenly becoming so prominently mainstream in the media lately. Something of which I'll make a point of later down the page and mightily impressed you'll be too. At least I hope so.
Anyway, moving right along here, the next thing you know after that previous soft sell article on the woes and miseries of men, the very next week, appears another article on the very same website about - guess what? Yep, that's right, the woes and miseries of men, this time authored by Dr Peter West, an associate of the very same nest of PC vipers from that very same men's department of the very same University of Western Sydney.
There seems to be a pattern emerging here.
Nah, couldn't be. Must be just a coincidence.
Here it is -.
On Line Opinion
Is masculinity really in crisis?
"Has masculinity changed across the western world- and especially in Australia? What are the big issues that men deal with today? And how has life changed for men in the past 60 years or so? "
Wait a minute, there's that word "changed" again. Gosh, another coincidence - or is it just more of that pattern developing?
Before I answer that, you listen up here Dr Peter West, if you'd have been reading my columns in Kitten News over the last 4 years, you wouldn't have even asked that stupid question - of course masculinity isn't in crisis. This often touted so-called crisis is simply a propaganda creation of the feminist-left in an attempt to destroy men's own self image and, they hope, will bring men to their knees and make them conducive to behavioural change. But it hasn't. So why are you asking this tired, old, worn out question again?
One might have expected that a seriously credentialled doctor in the study of psychiatry, as West is, would have had a bit of an inkling about this sort of brainwashing mind-game. But then, maybe academics aren't that smart after all. It really makes you wonder. You'd think that he'd know if masculinity was in crisis or not. But then again, maybe he's just pretending not to know. But he wouldn't do that, would he?
After all, he's a respected and upstanding member of the academic community, so what's his point?
Let's take that closer look.
Ah yes, here it is. Right at the climax of his article.
The steps of how men should change their ways!
Gosh, another coincidence?
Here's what he writes -
"If men are to move forward, they might try doing these [changes] things:
1. Speak up. Women can’t hear what men don’t say.
2. Have some ideas about feminism, and get them out there.
3. Learn to relate more effectively to other men. We have raised boys to be competitive, but it doesn’t always work. Men have to learn the art of compromise.
4. If men can listen, they function more effectively in relationships and at work. We must keep trying hard to be good listeners. Isn’t it hard work!
5. We have to express our feelings for loved ones. We don’t need another generation of emotionally frozen men who won’t hug their kids and partners.
6. Men have to take charge of their own health needs, what they eat, what exercise they do, seeking out doctors that are good for them."
Well, my goodness!
There's enough feminist bulsh' rubbish there for me to write another thousand words in response to it, but I'm not going to. Nope, I'm going to stick to my thread. Except to point out the glaring plagiarism of "Women can’t hear what men don’t say", which of course is the original work and quotation of one Warren Farrell. It's amazing that this cheap swipe is committed by an acclaimed and accredited academic!
But we must get moving along for fear that this report turns into a saga like War and Peace. Yet, we must pace and present the evidence slowly. Bear with me and follow the argument carefully. There's a lot in it..
The next thing to appear, on the very same site, about another week later is more of the same. More coincidence or more pattern emerging?
On Line Opinion
Boys need not be boys forever
" 'Thirty is the new 20,' comes the catchcry. 'Growing old is a state of mind!' How true this is. It seems that the fountain of youth lies in avoiding responsibility. Thus boys have babies and so give birth to the next fatherless generation."
A blame and shame article on boys.
This is written by one Tim Martyn.
From that link, "Tim Martyn [Australian] is currently undertaking a Masters of Science in Development Studies at the London School of Economics".
Now we have an international academic connection. This time the message is more damning of masculinity. This time, the call is lucid. Again, but coincidentally, the call is that men and boys - yep, you guessed it - they must change their ways.
Martyn writes, "Male society needs to reinvent the formal and informal rites of passage. We can’t expect teachers, psychiatrists, social workers and the law to succeed where we have failed."
Interesting. You might notice that not a one of these writers has hinted, nor even mentioned the fact that women, their feminism, Marxism, post-modernist liberal thinking and its subsequent lack of self discipline and personal morality might have even had the slightest, the tiniest, or even the most minuscule influence on the matter of the social ills they speak about and beset the entire western world of today. Nope. They don't mention that at all. The thought that it is these things, which, possibly, might have to change to fix the problems of men, apparently, never even enters their heads. Not a one. Not a one even raises a hint of a doubt.
All they can do is blame and shame men and boys and masculinity and tell you that men must change their ways.
This, despite the facts - heavily documented historical facts in writing and concrete evidence - that over the past 2,000 years (and more) humankind has never had it so good, in terms of health, safety, civilisation, education, wealth, self-determination, hope, faith and charity, and any other thing that you can think of, and all of this was created by men, being men, with their normal, healthy natural masculinity.
The realisation that the ills and social problems they bemoan have only emerged in the last thirty or so years as a direct biproduct of feminist Marxism hasn't even dawned on them.
Does even one of these so-called highly educated men mention that?
No.
Do any of these academics acknowledge that human suffering and injustice has increased tenfold in the last few decades, coincidentally along with feminism and Marxism?
No.
Do any of these writers have any idea of what the heck they're talking about?
Well, you go figure that out for yourself, I don't want to get sued for slander.
Do any of these giants of genius have any idea of who is really the driver and engine of civilisation, invention, creation and justice?
I don't think so. They give no credit to men and masculinity whatsoever. All they do is blame and shame, but under the cover of "oh-poor-male" articles. And then they tell men that they're feeling pain because men haven't changed their ways yet and they're the real cause of all the ills in the world.
Men and boys must now stop being their naturally inspirational selves. They must now start becoming women or homosexuals or metrosexuals or anything else lefty propogandists can spin up, except they must not be masculine men.
Which brings us to more "let's-be-nice-to-men" articles coincidentally popping up all around the world. Let's have a look -
Guardian - UK
Brown vows to combat the gender gap in education
"Gordon Brown last night promised action to avert the prospect of a "wasted generation of boys" and tackle the gender gap in educational achievement."
Oh poor boys. How come nobody saw this or admitted it before? But I'll bet Brown's method of tackling the problem will be through men changing their ways.
And...
Times - UK
My quandary in an all-boys school
"The tyranny of league tables means boys’ schools are turning co-ed — using those high-achieving girls to boost their ranking, while girls’ schools stay single sex, not wanting those pesky lads dragging them down."
Oh poor boys again. This surprisingly coming from a self avowed feminist writer for the Guardian, Janice Turner - "I felt I should apologise for my archaic feminist mindset', she writes in another article. So, how come she's being so man-friendly all of a sudden?
And...
Michigan Tech Lode - USA
Real men do yoga?
"This is a crisis. The supposedly manly lifestyle that we, as a culture, have created is a catalyst for many of the problems in the country today. What happens to young men who grow up with a distorted image of masculinity?"
Oh poor men in crisis again. But more blame and shame. What's going to happen to young men, this mangina puzzles. Ah yes, he discovers, men must change their ways.
And so it goes, on and on and increasingly so.
Just a coincidence or is there a pattern here?
It's almost as if everybody was working from the same script. It's as if there was some international manifesto of how to get men to change their ways. Such a conspiratorial idea would be ridiculous, wouldn't it?
Well as it turns out, NO!.
Now we get to that point about which I told you I'd get to before. Surely if such an instructional specification to make men change their ways existed, then it could be found.
Well, just have a "closer look" at the next link -
(Note - it's a downloadable .doc file. It seems to be virus free, so I'm recommending that you can trust it - at least for the present.)
And note the title - it might explain why men's issues are finding space in the mainstream media - it's about and is titled - "Mainstreaming men".
xyonline.net
Mainstreaming men in gender and development
"There is growing recognition that gender inequality is an issue of concern to women and men alike and that men have a stake in ending gender inequality."
This of course is just the local Australian manifesto and unsurprisingly it's by none other than our own prince of princesses, Michael Flood. But I'm sure he's only regurgitating the global feminist script of "engage men's pain, sympathise with them and get them to change their ways", just as we were warned about by Darren's article over 3 years ago.
Yep, all these writers, coincidentally telling the same story in the space of a few short weeks. It's hard to believe it's just a co-incidence.
Jim Macnamara
Dr Peter West
Tim Martyn
Gordon Brown
Janice Turner
Bob Evans
And they're just the tip of the iceberg, there's thousands more and they're churning out the same message across the globe daily, weekly, monthly and yearly - if the shoe doesn't fit, change the foot - that's what they're saying.
Well, I don't know about you but I think men should stay the same way they have been for the last 2,000 years or so. I think that's natural. I think that's the way of men, boys and natural masculinity. I think men have been an outstanding success. It's only since being engulfed by feminism that all the problems of their social engineering have arisen. It's not men, boys or masculinity that's in crisis, it's feminist-Marxism. And I say, if the shoe doesn't fit, then chuck the stupid thing away and get a new one.
But that still doesn't give us an answer as to where lies the international specification for the "men must change their ways" campaign.
Where is it?
Who is behind this campaign?
I don't know, but I'll tell you this - I've been studying this issue seriously for 4 years now, mostly on a part-time daily basis and I keep searching down the links to find a common core and so far the only place that the links ever keep winding up is...
Wait for it.
Drum roll.
Teh-dah...
The Bernard van Leer Foundation
http://www.bernardvanleer.org/about
"As a private grantmaking foundation, we also believe we have a responsibility to use our freedom to fund work and thought that is bold, innovative and experimental. We are committed to learning lessons from monitoring and evaluating our projects, and to leveraging our impact through publications and advocacy."
Well, just what the heck does that mean?
No, I don't know and your guess is as good as mine. It's about the same standard of rhetorical non-speak that the rest of the entire site indulges in.
So who are these people and why do my searches keep coming back to them?
Where do they get their funding from?
What do they really do?
One things for sure, and it's a bit of a worry, it's obvious that they're seriously committed to -
"The best interests of the child"
Now, what could possibly be wrong with that?
You think about it.
In the meantime, the answers to these questions will have to wait for another day and another article.
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