… men have become second-class citizens
writes
Suzanne Venker (thanks to
Instapundit).
The most obvious proof is male bashing in the media. It is rampant
and irrefutable. From sit-coms and commercials that portray dad as an
idiot to biased news reports about the state of American men, males are
pounced on left and right. And that’s just the beginning.
The war on men actually begins in grade school, where boys are at a
distinct disadvantage. Not only are curriculums centered on girls’,
rather than boys,’ interests, the emphasis in these grades is on sitting
still at a desk.
Plus, many schools have eliminated recess. Such an environment is
unhealthy for boys, for they are active by nature and need to run
around. And when they can’t sit still teachers and administrators often
wrongly attribute their restlessness to ADD or ADHD. The message is
clear: boys are just unruly girls.
Things are no better in college. There, young men face the perils of
Title IX, the 1972 law designed to ban sex discrimination in all
educational programs.
… What was once viewed equal opportunity for women has become something
else altogether: a demand for equal outcomes. Those are not the same
thing at all.
… men are in an impossible situation, for there’s an unspoken commandment when it comes to sex in America: thou shalt never blame the woman. If you’re a man who’s sexually involved with a woman and something goes wrong, it’s your fault. Simple as that.
Judith E. Grossman shed light on this phenomenon in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed
.
A former feminist, Grossman concedes that in the past she would have
expressed “unqualified support” for policies such as Title IX. But that
was before her son was charged with “nonconsensual sex” by a former
girlfriend.
… When men become husbands and fathers, things get really bad. In
family courts throughout America, men are routinely stripped of their
rights and due process. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is easily
used against them since its definition of violence is so broad that
virtually any conflict between partners can be considered abuse.
“If a woman gets angry for any reason, she can simply accuse a man
and men are just assumed guilty in our society,” notes Dr. Helen Smith,
author of the new book, "
Men on Strike." This is particularly heinous since, as Smith adds, violence in domestic relations “is almost 50% from men and 50% from women.”
Shocked? If so, that’s in part because the media don’t believe men
can be victims of domestic violence—so they don’t report it. They would
rather feed off stories that paint women as victims. And in so doing,
they’ve convinced America there’s a war on women.
Yet it is males who suffer in our society. From boyhood through
adulthood, the White American Male must fight his way through a litany
of taunts, assumptions and grievances about his very existence. His
oppression is unlike anything American women have faced.
