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?
