This entry is a follow-up to the first one ever written on this blog Misandry - The Socially Acceptable and Legal Form of Sexism. Even with shining examples of male-bashing in the media, it still does not show the scope of how women's sexism goes unfiltered. From feminist bloggers to news reports about sex offenders almost always showing males, hardly ever do you hear anyone say some of this information is biased against men in general and vilifies them.
This is a list of male-bashing and anti-male bias found across the web including blogs and popular news sources.
1) Don't trust your man, Indian minister tells women - Reuters. From the article: "Indian men cannot be trusted in their sexual behaviour and are fuelling the country's HIV epidemic, a female government minister said on Monday, slamming the country's "hypocrisy" about sex." Also there is this fine nugget: "Activists and officials say many women have been infected after their husbands visited prostitutes." Of course women are angels, so it must all be the cheating men's fault.
2) Senator Vitter's wife made a joke about mutilating men's genitals, a popular comedy vehicle for man-haters. From the article: "When Vitter's wife was asked about the marital scandals surrounding former Representative Livingston and former President Bill Clinton in 2000 she said, "I'm more like Lorena Bobbit than Hillary, if he does something like that, I'm walking away with one thing, and it's not alimony, trust me.""
3) AllPosters.com sells a poster that says Boys Are Stupider, Send Them To Jupiter and has a cartoon picture of a boy in a rocket ship flying toward a poorly drawn planet.
4) A story about wifebeater joke t-shirts which was covered by a female writer for the Ottowa Citizen in Canada features the following comments: "No, men do not need similar protection because, Lorena Bobbitt notwithstanding, there is really no widespread gender-specific phenomenon of violence against them.". If you read The Violence Against Women Act Legally Sanctions Female To Male Violence it should paint a clear picture that males in westernized countries like America and Australia are equally likely to be victims of domestic violence. Canada also has similar westernization so it stands to reason the same might be true.
5) stopitnow.org has a campaign to prevent child sexual abuse by encouraging people to report the abuse to a toll-free hot-line. This campaign is advertised using billboards that show a close-up of two hands holding each other. One is clearly the hand of an adult male, and the other is of a child. The ad says "It just doesn't feel right when I see them together". This is a great example of the cultural bias that all sex offenders are male.
Just look at the archive of female sex offenders. The list does not even scratch the surface as it would take ages to compile all of the past cases of women who sexually abuse children and teenagers and often get reduced charges and plea bargains that men do not. This is also without mentioning that more women are arrested for this type of thing as time goes on. Keep checking it and keep an eye out for more additions.
6) This feminist blogger's entry is a little scary. She shows pictures of herself holding a gun at a shooting range. Her blog entry then says "As many of us who tackle the topic of rape, pornography and sexism on our blogs know, sometimes people find our blogs by searching for the very thing we are standing up against. I didn’t get much of this traffic at first, but recently I have seen a definite increase in the amount of creeps who are stumbling across my blog due to their interest in less than noble things. To them I say, WATCH OUT SUCKERS. Here’s why: I moved to Austin, TX just slightly over a year ago. I am not a Texan - I don’t have the pride or the truck to fit in here. But, no matter where I find myself in this thing called life, I am always open to experiencing as much as possible. That is why I jumped on the opportunity to shoot a gun for the first time today." In a later paragraph she goes on to say "I was definitely more comfortable with the gun in my hand than the guns in the hands of the other good ol’ boys around me." Who really has a right to feel nervous? Her because she's a feminist and men search for porn and she needs to shoot them? Or would it be "the good 'ol boys" because they are experienced with firearms and she is not? Another odd thing about her blog is that the original "complaint" is that men found her blog entries by searching for porn and prostitutes, etc. This is actually her fault for not organizing her keywords the way people search for things. For example, the title tag of every page says "Femivist" because of her cute combination of "feminist" and "activist". This is silly because the title is the first thing most search engines look at. People are not searching for "watch out suckers" and "femivist". If she used words like "anti-porn anti-prostitution pro-woman feminist activism" she would more accurately target the types of searches she is hoping to attract. Of course, the wrong people finding her blog is not her fault for being a poor webmistress, it is all the rapists on the Internet's fault in her femivist rationality.
7) Let us never forget Katie Couric making a joke on the Today Show Tuesday, November 25, 1997 about castrating a man. She now has her own show. Meanwhile, the career of Don Imus ended because he said "nappy-headed hoes". He did not receive a punishment for the sake of making him aware of his behavior, instead his career ended entirely. Can you imagine the fiasco that would ensue if popular men on TV suddenly began making jokes about mutilating female's genitals?
8) What He's Really Thinking When You Fight (Ladies Home Journal) is an interesting read for those who wonder why their girlfriends and wives pick fights and blow things out of proportion. It is because they read articles like this one that tell them their brains are wired in a more complex way, which makes them smarter and remember things better, giving them the perfect excuse to create arguments which are really used for control and power. The problem is women act like victims (you don't care about me or my feelings!) during these arguments, making it hard to see how that is the exact way in which they gain power over their partners and other men. They do such a good job of that it prevents men from perceiving women as being overpowering or manipulative.
9) A school suspended a 13-year-old boy for drawing a gun in art class. He says it was in no direct threat to anyone. From the article: "The boy's father, Ben Mosteller, said that when he went to the school to discuss his son's punishment, school officials mentioned the seriousness of the issue and talked about the massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School, where two teenagers shot and killed 12 students, a teacher and themselves in 1999. Mosteller said he was offended by the reference." The war against boys pervades the U.S. education system. Misandry in school starts in kindergarten.
10) POP singer Miranda Lambert writes in her song "Gunpowder & Lead" these misandric lyrics:
"I'm goin' home, gonna load my shotgun
Wait by the door and light a cigarette
If he wants a fight well now he's got one
And he ain't seen me crazy yet
He slap my face and he shook me like a rag doll
Don't that sound like a real man
I'm going to show him what a little girls made of
Gunpowder and lead".
As long as she is a victim, she has the right to kill him instead of seeking actual help, just ask Mary Winkler.
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