… [W]hen feminism exploded onto the scene, I was often mistaken for a supporter of the movement. But I have never been a feminist, because, having experienced my mother’s violence, I always knew that women can be as vicious and irresponsible as men … Indeed, when I later opened my refuge for battered women, 62 of the first 100 to come through the door were as abusive as the men they had left.
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Feminism, I realised, was a lie. Women and men are both capable of extraordinary cruelty. Indeed, the only thing a child really needs – two biological parents under one roof – was being undermined by the very ideology which claimed to speak up for women’s rights.
This country is now on the brink of serious moral collapse. We must stop demonising men and start healing the rift that feminism has created between men and women.
Harriet Harman’s insidious and manipulative philosophy that women are always victims and men always oppressors can only continue this unspeakable cycle of violence. And it’s our children who will suffer.
(via 5Fo’F)
And speaking of the country on the brink of serious moral collapse: shag-bands, anyone?
When Anna asked him what they were, he replied: ‘If I snap a black one, the girl has to “do sex” with me.’
well that certainly brings back memories of my own drunken irishman father.
and a mother who once hurled me down a flight of stair. luckily, prior to that, for fun we used to stiffen up like a board and slide down feet first, so I did that as a reflex and survived the impromptu ride.
she also sexually abused me until just before my teens. and despite a sister getting caught engaging in an extortion prank and a brother who dynamited a phone boot for fun, I was the only one who got kicked out of the house for, wait for it, picking an argument with the two of them.
I just typed out a 15 page document the amount of bullying I’ve had to put up with including for instance, the time I was taking swimming lessons and the instructor kicked my out of the change room in my underwear to ‘make room for the next class’. gee, would have been nice if we got a warning eh?
no shortage of barbarism in this life.
what do you do when the ones who are supposed to protect you from danger and harm are in fact the worst offenders?
Shag bands? I’m pretty sure the media already did the whole ‘moral outrage’ do you know what your children are doing next on 60 minutes thing with that one in the 80s or 90s.
time to google philip larkin’s pome ‘this be the verse’….
i promise you’ll feel a titch better after perusing it…
That sounds unspeakable, George, I’m really sorry.
re. the Erin Pizzey article – this all depends on your definition of “feminism”, doesn’t it? Harriet Harperson is a renouned idiot (and possible next P.M.; yeesh) and her type of paranoid Victim Feminism is completely stupid. But the Feminist movement was once about obtaining civil rights for women – a battle that was worthwhile; and was won a long time ago.
Yeah, those bands have beer around for a long time. I had a few run-ins with them when I was a teen. Mostly they just facilitate thing which would have happened anyway.
You guys don’t do shag-bands? Gosh, is it comfy under that rock? However DO you meet people?
Hey George, that sucks. I hope you found a way to deal, without taking it out on people around you. I turned into a violent person, but found a couple of outlets. Now that I’m over 50, I’m noticing I blow up like I did when I was a teenager. It’s a bit troubling, to say the least.
My sisters had a rough go of it, as teenagers. We were surrounded by some real scumbags, and my sisters had to fight to survive. I don’t know if they were feminists, but they certainly earned the right to call themselves anything they felt like.
I sometimes wonder how I’d deal with having a daughter(I have 3 sons). I’d probably end up in federal prison. My dad pointed a rifle at one of my sister’s boyfriends, and I’m much nastier than my dad ever was.
Shag bands?! I just can’t keep up with these new music fads…
Thanks to Erin Pizzey….
On feminism in general:
It never fails to amaze that supposedly intelligent people continue to act as if “Feminism” was born in the last half of 20th century.
It wasn’t.
As for the myths of the cult …. they are created to do nothing more than stop any critical thought or discussion around the underlying goals of the political feminists, who are simply, socialists and elitists who want to make the rules that you are supposed to live by. In short adherents to a totalitarian ethos that is ultimately self serving.
Along the way the damage they do is vast and largely unaccounted.
Sort of like the track records of some others of that ilk.
when I was a kid shag refered to a dance.
a shag was different from a sock hop ,
now Im beginning to think a sock hop might refer to wearing a con dom.
And that is surely the most disturbing aspect of this craze – imposing a degree of sexuality on children at an age when they shouldn’t even know it exists.
~Sadie Nicholas
Amazing.
I wonder what Sadie Nicholas would say if she was told that for 100s of thousands of years most human families lived in single room accommodations where the parents produced 10-12 offspring right in the same room that everyone lived and slept in together.
shag bands: kinda like those rainbow bracelets a little while ago? More urban legends and made up stories to scare parents.
p.s. – I stand by “renouned”; SOME people spell it with a “w”, but there happen to be a lot of “renouned” healers and psychics and astrologers out there in google-land; THEY can see the future, so…
And no, it is NOT ironic that I called someone a “renouned idiot”; as I just explained…
Yeah well, I’m more than a bit suspicious that nearly every female these days claims to have been abused by a male relative….
Is this new phenomena based on fact or a popular fantasy….
There are those who declare this has always occurred but went unreported…..if that’s the case—it’s a feeble excuse for bizarre behaviour…my parents generation and my peer generation seemed well enough adjusted.
Is it that today’s females have lost the ability to cope or have somehow gained the inspiration/empowerment to lie?
Is it that today’s females have lost the ability to cope or have somehow gained the inspiration/empowerment to lie?
~sasquatch
Naw.
It’s because many females are thin skinned and disconnected from the true meaning of the word abuse.
Kinda like how people in general are disconnected from the true meaning of torture or genocide.
I blame the MSM and TV.
Oh, and the commies in the classrooms.
If “feminism” means: “the belief that women are inherently superior in character and morality to men on both an individual and group basis”, I must admit that I am not a feminist.
If “feminism” means: “the moral entitlement of all women to any special privileges or presumptions of virtue they can guilt-trip out of men and society due to past injustice”, I must admit that I am not a feminist.
If “feminism” means: “the belief that maleness and femaleness are arbitrary and irrelevant accidents of biology, and all individuals of either sex must be treated as functionally identical and interchangeable in any and all social contexts”, I must admit that I am not a feminist.
If “feminism” means: “the belief that any disparity at all between male and female economic status can be due to nothing except structural patriarchal privilege”, I must admit that I am not a feminist.
However, if “feminism” means: “the belief that women and men should be treated as equal before the law and as equal in human dignity”, then I will proudly admit to being a feminist.
Well, now we’re whistling Dixie — just too bad that it has to be an abused woman making these allegations about radical (as opposed to the kind that Black Mamba is referring to) feminism to be listened to and given credibility. Of course, Pizzey’s 100% correct: Women can be, and are, as abusive, cruel, and domineering as men and the radical feminist myth that women are always victims and men, always oppressors, has made male/female/family relationships fraught with dissension and power politics.
Our kids are the biggest losers.
REAL Women of Canada has been saying these same things about radical feminism — how playing female vs. male, victim vs. oppressor has damaged personal relationships and the nuclear family — since the early ’80s, and the lib-left apparatchiks and media twits have done everything in their power to discredit them, ridicule them, and marginalize them.
‘Too bad. They were prophetic — but we all know, don’t we, what happens to a prophet in her own country?
Here I thought a Shag meant a certain hair style from the late 70’s.
What? Shag bands aren’t those marks left on the knees from long ago carpet? Not being hip I thought it was just rug burn.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife, Laureen, wave as they arrive at Pittsburgh International Airport on Thursday. (Keith Srakocic/Associated Press)
If consider H1N1 and consider kissing women is not proper in politic
may be Laureen Harper wife of Harper better to do not kiss only let her husband to shake hand and she only say hello to people
I heard only Franch are kissing women in public
why nonMuslim kiss their women
in public
especially if women is nice look is not proper to do that
There are times I feel a bit disoriented…
Self defense is “taking the law into your own hands.”
Used to be:
Shag was a type of carpet….
Gay meant you were happy….
Homosexuality was a sin…..
I’m with Andy Rooney….
“I am not a bad person if I think homesexuality is wrong…..it means I have an opinion.”
Mark: Rainbow bracelets are the same thing, and they’re definitely not an urban legend. They’re just not as common as these kinds of articles make them out to be.