Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Men's Reality in todays society
To some of the most radical feminists, including the most influential ones, men’s personal guilt or innocence is of no importance at all. What is important is men’s collective guilt, men’s biological identity, and maleness. This makes men an innate threat to society, that is, to women. National Socialism relied on the same idea, of course, but it identified different targets. For the Nazis, Jews and Gypsies were the "sub humans." It is true that feminists are not Nazis; even the most radical feminists, with a few exceptions, do not want to exterminate men. Besides, they have discovered a much easier and cleaner way to achieve their goals within the framework of a democratic and generally liberal society, convincing the public that men have deliberately oppressed women since the dawn of history. In that case, they have a supposedly legitimate reason for urging legislators establish a "level playing field" even if doing so means punishing innocent individual men for the crimes of their ancestors. These men are not guilty of creating patriarchal oppression, say radical feminists, but they are guilty of continuing to benefit from the godlike power and privileges that patriarchy gives to men. Collective guilt, they argue, deserves collective punishment. The means, in short, justifies the end. This is men's reality in modern America.
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