Professor submitted: Misogyny is still alive!
As an adult male, I am both appalled and very disappointed by numerous commercial ads on television and in newspapers and magazines as well, which feature women in domesticated roles. Men are nowhere to be found!
Without referencing those ads or products by name, women, as a gender, are presented as subservient to men. They are the ones who buy, prepare, and serve meals to their family at home.
They also vacuum, scrub and mop floors, wash clothes, etc. Need I say more?
Laura Cereta, one of several fifteenth century A.D. Renaissance feminists, would be equally appalled. In her 1488 publication entitled “Defense of the Liberal Instruction of Women”, she
condemned men who viewed themselves as superior to women. She argued that the expectations of men that all women should marry, bare children, and remain confined to their homes in order to comply with whatever their husbands require is a gross usurpation of the rights of women then and now as well.
I could not agree more with Cereta’s critique of men as superior to women. I have been very happily married, for twenty years now, to my beautiful wife. She is the ‘apple of my eye’! As her husband-for-life, I have also completed my share of daily chores. I wash, dry, and return dishes, pots and pans, coffee cups, glasses, and silverware to their designated place. I also vacuum and wet mop our floors, make our bed each day, and wash, dry, fold, and return our laundry to wherever it belongs. What I do each day are not requirements of my wife’s ‘honey do’ list. It is my own unique way of working together with her in order to complete those daily tasks, which face all couples, married or not. This also applies to many other men as well, who voluntarily complete similar tasks at home on a daily basis.
Even though I am not certain about the age or gender of those who write and produce the ads I have referenced above, those hired to create such ads can do more to portray women as equal to men rather than as a secondary class. What better way is there to celebrate the beginning of a new year?
Andrea Slater • Apr 22, 2016 at 2:42 am
You should not be an instructor here. You appear to be the indoctrinated leftwing academic now turned into the leftwing academic indoctrinator.
Campus feminists — the third-wave “I say equality but I mean something else” feminists, I mean, not the suffragette kind — really need to give their PC gender politics a rest.
If you wish to save feminism as a political movement from irrelevance, you need to return to its roots. That means abandoning the “nanny state” mentality that leads to politically correct speech codes and college disciplinary committees that have come to replace courts and due process in, say, campus sexual assault fiascos.
You should tackle serious matters, like rape in India and honor killings in the Muslim world, and Muslim female genital mutilations in the US that are more of an outrage than some woman going on a date on this campus. Or silly affirmative action quotas in the Senate.
Give up these screwy leftwing ideas that you can teach an incoming male freshman “not to rape.” The sexual stalker, who is often an alienated loser consumed with his own failures, is motivated by an atavistic hunting reflex. He is called a predator precisely because he turns his victims into prey.
Give up Hillary’s “Blame men first” feminism, a perversion of healthy feminism.
Find out why every feminist I know who graduated from this university regrets 5-10 years later how ridiculous so much of her college-level feminism turned out to be when confronted with experience and reality.
Discover how wildly overblown claims about an epidemic of sexual assaults on American campuses are obscuring the true danger to young women, too often distracted by cellphones or iPods in public places: the ancient sex crime of abduction and murder. Disregard hysterical propaganda about our “rape culture,” and learn how the majority of campus incidents being carelessly described as sexual assault are not felonious rape (involving force or drugs) but oafish hookup melodramas, arising from mixed signals and imprudence on both sides.
Stick to academics and stop letting legislators and school administrations “infantilize” you with their laws and codes to supervise students’ dating lives, an authoritarian intrusion that borders on violation of civil liberties. Real crimes should be reported to the police, not to haphazard and ill-trained campus grievance committees.
Don’t be like so many young middle-class women, raised far from the urban streets, who seem to expect adult life to be an extension of their comfortable, overprotected homes. Treat the world as it has always been: a wilderness.
Realize that the price of women’s modern freedoms is personal responsibility for vigilance and self-defense.
Reject current campus dogma, tracking liberal-Left, and perpetuating illusions about sex and gender. The basic Leftist premise, descending from Marxism, is that all problems in human life stem from an unjust society and that corrections and fine-tunings of that social mechanism will eventually bring utopia. Learn how ridiculous Progressives have unquestioned faith in the perfectibility of mankind.
Notice how the horrors and atrocities of history have been edited out of this university except where they can be blamed on racism, sexism, and imperialism — toxins embedded in oppressive outside structures that must be smashed and remade. Learn that the real problem resides in human nature, which religion as well as great art sees as eternally torn by a war between the forces of darkness and light.
Realize that liberalism, and it’s bastard-child, third-wave feminism, lacks a profound sense of evil.
Study, and then denounce, the gender ideology dominating at this campus — an ideology that denies that sex differences are rooted in biology and sees them instead as malleable fictions that can be revised at will. Realize the screwiness of the assumption that complaints and protests, enforced by sympathetic campus bureaucrats and government regulators, can and will fundamentally alter all men.
Consent laws? Male rape awareness courses? Sex crimes like rape-murder emanate from a primitive level that even practical psychology no longer has a language for. Psychopathology, as in Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s grisly Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), was a central field in early psychoanalysis. But today’s therapy has morphed into happy talk, attitude adjustments, and pharmaceutical shortcuts.
There is a ritualistic symbolism at work in sex crime that college feminists do not grasp and therefore cannot arm themselves against. And they pass this ignorance on.
Learn the well-established evidence that the visual faculties play a bigger role in male sexuality, which accounts for the greater male interest in pornography. Learn that the sexual stalker, who is often an alienated loser consumed with his own failures, is motivated by an atavistic hunting reflex. He is called a predator precisely because he turns his victims into prey.
Misled by the naive optimism and “You go, girl!” boosterism of their upbringing, young LMU feminists do not see the animal eyes glowing at them in the dark. They assume that bared flesh and sexy clothes are just a fashion statement containing no messages that might be misread and twisted by a psychotic. They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
Chest-pumping feminism is cute and all, for a minute. But when you realize the despicable ideology underlying it, you should reject it and find another way to be cute.