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Re: That goes for all men, not just Dads Posted by Duhey2 [Email]  (#151)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Duhey2) on Fri, 6 May 2005 11:38:49
In Reply to: That goes for all men, not just Dads, Caarma [Profile/Gallery]
, Fri, 6 May 2005 09:49:18
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I guess men make easy targets because speaking in our defense is construed as chauvinism.
This letter to the editor appeared in the Wall Street Journal on May 4th:
American Men Just Shrug as They Take a Bashing
It's not surprising that male-bashing, that popular sport encouraged by everyone from outraged-at-the-president-of-Harvard audiences to Madison Avenue ad shops, has wormed its way down to the pre-pubescent/early-teen demographic ("Moving On: Girl Power as Boy Bashing," Personal Journal, April 21). What is surprising is the complete lack of outrage from men.
As I was subjected to another in the endless string of men-as-complete-idiots television ads the other night, I commented to my wife that if an ad were similarly insulting to women, the hue and cry from the women's rights bunch would be deafening. As I pointed out, you never see a "Mom made the bathroom smell" ad. If we did, it would be the end of civilization as we know it.
It's time that men on Planet Earth show Todd Goldman, the ad writers and the rest of the male-bashers among us that this obvious double standard is not "darkly comic" and won't go unchallenged.
If we were to market "Girls are stupid. Throw rocks at them!" T-shirts, would the certain-to-be-offended masses of women's rights/gender-neutral/psycho-socio babblers/university do-gooders accept an "It's darkly comic" response? Not likely. So, why should we? It's time to fight back. Make some noise. Demand respect. The "darkly comic" side ain't gonna take it no more.
Whit Sibley
Denver
, Fri, 6 May 2005 09:49:18, Fri, 6 May 2005 11:38:49 <-- Viewing This Message
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