CRACKLE!

This was posted on a sight I was reading…I thought it belonged right here,if you disagree you can remove it.

A sample of how the manipulation of society works: How many people know what misogny is?

What is misogny you ask?…well it is the hatred of all women..as practiced by all men. Okay so I added the italics for sarcastic humor. But the funnier thing is that I recently went to see the latest James Bond movie (Quantum of Solace) and recalled how I once read that the character .. one JB 007… is a mysognist…that even Lady Dench’s character ‘M’ pronounced him so in a movie (Pierce Brosnan was the hapless JB 007 at the time) some years ago.

If Bond…James Bond is a mysognist…then um, how does one explain the packed movie theater of couples (men/women) and large amounts of attractive…mixed age… single women in groups? (I mean…I know why I go…you know…to see how I look on screen. ) It seems as though something is missing in the diet of American (dare I say world wide) woman-hood?!?! The latest installment of Mr Bond is, if nothing, the extreme of manliness. {By the way I never thought I’d say this…but go see the movie… the premise of the movie is scarely where we see ourselves right now…right down to the evil green peace-like organization…shockingly realistic…bravo to UKs intelligence services!!}

I digress, sorry about that. Anyhow, while waiting for the movie to start I asked the female friends who came along what is the word for ‘hatred’ of all men? Now mind you all present are college graduates…two of which were even English/Communications Majors… with high honors… another one is a closet feminist (masquerading as a conservative) the other is a bomb throwing anarchistic femi-nazi…but no one knew…not conservatives…not moderates…not liberals…(oh, I mean progressives) knew.

So as this improvised trivial pursuit continued on we solicted input from those poor souls who had the failure of judgement to sit nearby…but good naturedly took stabs at it…none knew. For me, I was only really asking to pass the time and because the word .. to the best of my recollection has never been uttered to me in all my years of school…work..travel…plays…movies..internet…tv…(you get the idea). It was as if the word … the very thought of it doesn’t exist…apparently only men are the haters. Just ask Bond…James Bond.

By the way Misandry, is the hatred (or contempt) of all men or boys and it (misandry) parallels misogyny—which is the hatred of all women. (I wonder what the word for the hatred of conservative women is? Oh, that’s right… I remember that one …it’s called acceptable.)

Now whether we like it as a society of not…we are at the very least made male or female…and if we as a society can’t see … eye to eye… in this most basic category as people then how will we avoid the splintering of our society over anything else we might talk about. Be it conservative or progressive.

Then I started to think…did some checking around and came to an unpleasant conclusion…that the same mind set that has brought us the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac chaos by pressurizing the financial markets with too many unfit loans to unfit candidates within a reasonably short time period….has also been working on the fields of male/female relationships.

What follows below was taken in part from Wikipedia, but is something everyone of us looks at when we watch TV, a movie, or read a story: men are basically stupid, evil, or greedy … basically useless to woman. Check out the latest commercials… and by the way the more manly a male is perceived the more they are seen negatively. The flip side of this coin seems to be (in my opinion) that the farther away a male moves from normal male model in favor of the ‘new’ or ‘change’ model …the more enlightened…the more progressive… more cultured…the acceptable this man will be… the more successful … the more happy he will feel.

Has anyone noticed the plague of boys dropping out of high school? It’s at epidemic levels brought on by these same kinds of wrong thinking (in my opinion) people who brought us social engineering via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…where the result will be more government programs that resolve nothing…and are in charge of fixing the mess they created. Can anyone say…we need more social workers? Social workers are the enforcement arm of modern secular humanist society (in my opinion). Not that real good doesn’t get done by this profession…but it’s not like kids were machine gunning each other at school or work or at the malls when I was growing up.

I bring this up here to highlight a point: a war has been and continues to be waged on us from every direction [please see my earlier reference here to the Quantum of Solace movie] from within and without our society to weaken our spirit, our will, our values. We don’t teach civics like we should…so society doesn’t know it’s own history, it’s own laws, it’s own culture. We distort male and female-ness to weaken the one at the expense of another. We pass laws on citizens but look the other way at illegal alliens. We certainly have become deserving of the governments we keep electing haven’t we?

Anyhow, none of these many blogs, groups, and etc. from me or others will matter a hill of beans if we don’t underpin ourselves with real knowledge so that we can defend, correct this Republic…to fight the good fight. So I challenge all of us… starting with me … to go to the following website and take the civics quiz…let our scores be an indication of how well we know what we are talking about…and encouragement to share what we know with everyone in a spirit of good will…charity…and forebearance: http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/ [reminder you will need to select 'take the quiz' button]

{for those so interested, below is a portion of the reference information in support of today’s epistle}

Misandry and feminism
In My Enemy, My Love (1992), Judith Levine classifies these stereotypes of men as targets of women’s misandry within intimate relationships:

Infants: the Mama’s Boy, the Babbler, the Bumbler and the Invalid
Betrayers: the Seducer, the Slave, the Abandoner and the Abductor
Beasts: the Brute, the Pet, the Pervert, the Prick and the Killer[5]

Conservative discourse on misandry
Christina Hoff Sommers, a conservative commentator, argues that feminism has a ‘corrosive paradox’ and that no group of women can wage war on men without at the same time denigrating the women who respect those men.”[8]

Wendy McElroy, an individualist anarchist, individualist feminist and Fox News commentator,[9] argues that some feminists “have redefined the view of the movement of the opposite sex” as “a hot anger toward men seems to have turned into a cold hatred.”[10] She argues that men as a class are considered irreformable, all men are considered rapists, and marriage, rape and prostitution are seen as the same.

She says “a new ideology has come to the forefront… radical or gender, feminism”, one that has “joined hands with [the] political correctness movement that condemns the panorama of western civilization as sexist and racist: the product of ‘dead white males.’”[11]

Conservative pundit Charlotte Hays argues “that the anti-male philosophy of radical feminism has filtered into the culture at large — is incontestable; indeed, this attitude has become so pervasive that we hardly notice it any longer.”[12]

Warren Farrell, Women Can’t Hear What Men Don’t Say
Religious Studies professors, Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young make similar comparisons in their ambitious three-book series Beyond The Fall Of Man,[15] which treats misandry as a form of prejudice and discrimination that has become institutionalized in North American society. Nathanson and Young credit “ideological feminism” for imposing misandry on culture.[16]

Their book Spreading Misandry (2001) analyzes “pop cultural artifacts and productions from the 1990s” from movies to greeting cards for what they consider contains pervasive messages of hatred toward men. Legalizing Misandry (2005) the second in the series, gives similar attention to laws in North America.

Footnotes
^ a b Zeitlin, Froma I.. “Patterns of Gender in Aeschylean Drama: Seven against Thebes and the Danaid Trilogy” (PDF). Retrieved on 2007-12-21. Princeton University, paper given at the Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
^ Gender and Judaism: The transformation of tradition, Harry Brod
^ Emphasis added. Julie M. Thompson, Mommy Queerest: Contemporary Rhetorics of Lesbian Maternal Identity, (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002).
^ Kate Millet, Sexual Politics, (New York: Doubleday, 1970), p. 187.
^ Levine, Judith (1992). My Enemy, My Love. Doubleday. ISBN 0385410794.
^ Solanas, Valerie (1967). “The S.C.U.M. Manifesto”. Gifts of Speech: Women’s Speeches from Around the World. Retrieved on 2007-12-28.
^ Echols, Alice (January 1990). Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-75, American Culture Series. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816617876. “SCUM Manifesto [...] was one of the earliest, wittiest, and most eccentric expressions of second-wave feminism. Solanas’s unabashed misandry—especially her belief in men’s biological inferiority—her endorsement of relationships between ‘independent women,’ and her dismissal of sex as ‘the refuge of the mindless’ contravened the sort of radical feminism which prevailed in most women’s groups across the country.”
^ Hoff Sommers, Christina (1994). Who Stole Feminism. Simon and Schuster, p. 256. ISBN 978-0684801568.
^ The Independent Institute
^ (McElroy 2001, p. 5)
^ (McElroy 2001, p. 4-6)
^ Hays, Charlotte. ‘The Worse Half’. National Review 11 March, 2002.
^ find.cato.org
^ Farrell, Warren (1999). Women Can’t Hear What Men Don’t Say. New York: Tarcher. ISBN 087477988X.
^ (Nathanson & Young 2001, p. 4-6) “The same problem that long prevented mutual respect between Jews and Christians, the teaching of contempt, now prevents mutual respect between men and women.”
^ (Nathanson & Young 2001, p. xiv) “[ideological feminism,] one form of feminism—one that has had a great deal of influence, whether directly or indirectly, on both popular culture and elite culture—is profoundly misandric.”

Bibliography
Hoff Summers, Christina, Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women, 1994.
Farrell, Warren. The Myth of Male Power. Berkley Trade, 2001. ISBN 0-425-18144-8
Ferguson, Frances and R. Howard Bloch. Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. ISBN 9780520065444
Levine, Judith. My Enemy, my Love: Man-hating and ambivalence in women’s lives. 1992.
McElroy, Wendy (2001), Sexual Correctness: The Gender-Feminist Attack on Women, Harper Paperbacks, New York: McFarland & Company, ISBN 978-0786411443
Nathanson, Paul; Young, Katherine R. (2001), Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture, Harper Paperbacks, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, ISBN 9780773530997
Nathanson, Paul; Young, Katherine R. (2006), Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination against Men, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, ISBN 9780773528628
Schwartz, Howard. The Revolt of the Primitive: An Inquiry into the Roots of Political Correctness. Revised Edition. Transaction Publishers, 2003. ISBN 0765805375

External links
Bailée, Susan (2001). “Misandry in the Classroom”. The Hudson Review 54 (1): 148–54, http://www.jstor.org/pss/3852834. “My rough-and-tumble first grader, Mark, came home from school yesterday and nonchalently told me a story about his day that set me shivering”.
Leader, Richard (2007). “Misandry: From the Dictionary of Fools”. Adonis Mirror. Retrieved on 2007-12-28. article critical of the use of the term
Wilson, Robert Anton (April 1996). “Androphobia: The only respectable bigotry”. The Backlash!. Shameless Men Press. Retrieved on 2007-12-28.
antimisandry.com
Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misandry”
Categories: Discrimination | Gender | Human sexuality | Sexism | Sexual and gender prejudices

Zee, I knew this article would make some women unhappy, but I did not write it. I only posted it because I am the mother of 2 boys and the aunt of some 40 boys and the fact is it exists on both sides of gender.

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_48.htm

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/research/pdfs/eoy_dropouts_glgr0506.pdf

tennaseepuma, I’ve seen enough “institutes” to recognize a rightwing “think tank” and sure enough, it took me all of two seconds to google this:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Manhattan_Institute

The Manhattan Institute (MI) is a right-wing 501(c)(3) non-profit think tank founded in 1978 by William J. Casey, who later became President Ronald Reagan’s CIA director.[1]
The Manhattan Institute is “focused on promoting free-market principles whose mission is to ‘develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility.’”[2]
“The Manhattan Institute concerns itself with such things as ‘welfare reform’ (dismantling social programs), ‘faith-based initiatives’ (blurring the distinction between church and state), and ‘education reform’ (destroying public education),”

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GIGO.

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“Obama-Media”
http://investigatebarackobama.wordpress.com/obama-media/

“Sexism” (extension of Obama-Media)
http://investigatebarackobama.wordpress.com/61/

PRESS PASS FOR OBAMA . BLATANT LOGAN ACT VIOLATIONS REPORTED AS ‘HEAD START’

apparently it’s no big deal that Obama has been negotiating with Iran and Syria for months . (Logan Act violations)

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.93cd29fb2714a7b91e94a5dcabcde606.1b1&show_article=1

I noticed also that an earlier article on Obama’s “head start”
was removed from Drudge fairly quickly.

Apparently this guy can do whatever he wants .

Nancy Pelosi is “flower-bombed” — dailykos arranges to deliver 2,600 roses on her 70th birthday. http://bit.ly/d5Aoni Pelosi responds with thank you video.

(yeah, it’s no secret how DKos is, but I still wanted to post it.)