Misandry, look it up
Posted by gigdiary on February 8, 2010
A common misconception by female GenX journalists is to jump aboard the misandrist bandwagon. While it was probably an attractive, even admired, trait in women the age of Germaine Greer, it is now viewed, felt, by most women to be an exaggeration of reason and emotion that has no place in 2010. While the inroads made by such pioneers are important, to continue with such rationale is both damaging and destructive in today’s society.
Men aren’t the enemy, just as women aren’t the cause of all men’s woes. Belabouring the claims made by Greer and cohorts serves to stir up imagined discontent with today’s gender relations. Gen Y have only history to show them the feminist struggle; they have grown up accepting the world as presented. Their view of men is vastly different to that of their mothers.
Today girls play the same sports as boys, often they play them together. This was unheard of in Greer’s day. To compare the conditions that feminists then faced and girls and boys today face is chalk and cheese. We’ve come a long way baby, and we shouldn’t need to bludgeon society with our out-moded concepts of gender equality. As much is as practicable, it’s a done deal.
Yet we still read articles by Gen X journos, in the interest of selling papers, or attracting eyeballs, that belie belief. Men are the enemy, they can’t look after themselves, they can’t look after their partner, they can’t iron a shirt. Much fun is made of this fact. This from women who demand respect, yet show little outward respect for the man in their life, or the man who could be in their life.
Is it any wonder why some men choose not to join the club?
therealsydney said
Boom ! Spot on Gig!
gigdiary said
what can I say, but we’re on the same page…
5ft0 said
Nicely said.
gigdiary said
Thanks, 5ft0, it’s great to hear from you straight after RealSyd, different generations agreeing….
Benita said
When I was married, I viewed doing the cooking, ironing etc as my part of the deal. MrBB did the outside chores, like mowing the lawn etc, and I did the inside stuff. I don’t regard that as being un-feminist, if there is such a word. It was just as much my house as MrBB’s, thus it was my responsibility just as much as his to keep the household running. Ironing and cleaning are part of the running of the household. People would say “Why do you do HIS ironing? Can’t he do his own?” Well, yes I suppose he could, but he never asked me to mow my half of the lawn, or weed half the garden. Us women moan and bleat about equality, but it has to work both ways. If men started demanding we mow our share of the lawn, or wash our share of the car, we would cry foul!
I believe in equality for woman. I believe Greer et al were all about “choices”, not necessarily gender roles. Thanks to the original feminists, women started making choices that they never could before. An example of this is when I chose to take my children and leave an abusive relationship. Pre-feminism, I would’ve stayed and kept the facade up, because that’s what The Good Wife did.
This is my definition of a feminist, not whether or not I make my husband do his own bloody ironing.
gigdiary said
MissBB you are so wise, that is such a great description of real feminism.
Or should I have said ‘learned’ Pepe?
Rosie said
I had to Google that word, that’s how well I know it. Now I know what it is, I can say:
What a load of crap!
Realistically, men are better equipped for certain things, and women others. It’s in our mental makeup. So get the **** over your high-faluting bullsh*t, grow up, and stop wasting paper and bandwidth with your nonsense.
I recently stumbled across an article on the ‘net, which made me ill. The gist was ‘15 Things a Man Should Not Do’ – and the entire list was stuff that for the past 10 years or so that same magazine had been telling men they had to do.
So, do you want a man, or a girlfriend with a penis? Make up your mind, then find something that fits your ida, and crawl away back to your corner, out of my sight.
*end rant*
gigdiary said
A girlfriend with a penis? A friend of mine had one of those, only he didn’t know it till later that night….
Rosie said
……… he got the best (and worst) of both worlds then hey Gig?!
wollywally said
I am the last of my kind, that what I keep telling to my son, I look after my husnabd he look after me, I do most of the house work, he works for the family, and this suit as perfectly, he would not have no time and no energy at the end of a working day, and I do not have any intention of doing two job one outside the house one in the house, done before in my youth, every couple have to find a balance the suit them, and not what society and magazine tell them to do, love to all ooxx