Feminists once again demonstrating why people hate feminists.
Vanderbilt University’s Women’s Center will be hosting a week-long event dedicated to lecturing men about what it means to have “healthy masculinity.”
So, let’s just imagine Vanderbilt University decided to let whites lecture to blacks about “healthy blackness.” Or, let Atheists lecture Mohammedans about “Healthy Islam-ness.” Or let men lecture women on “How to make a decent sammitch.”
How well would that go over, do you think?
What astounds me about most feminists is their utter arrogance in believing that they know everything there is about what it is like to be a man but no man knows everything there is about what it is like to be a woman.
Totally not self-aware.
I’m sick of these loser slags and their daddy issues. I wish they’d all OD on Prozac already.
The left is so disgusting that they will burn down a Planned Parenthood to get sympathy:
http://jezebel.com/washington-investigators-determine-arson-as-cause-of-pl-1728910518
btw, Atheists generally speaking don’t give a sh!t about religion and would prefer to have nothing to do with it, so I doubt that your average atheist is going to bother lecturing anyone on what to believe, because, generally speaking, they know people are going to believe what they’re going to believe, and they’re kind of over it. And, at any rate, Muslims haven’t been the ruling religion in this country, as men have been the ruling sex in this country for hundreds of years.
And white lecturing blacks makes no sense as whites aren’t the oppressed class like women have been over the centuries. A more applicable analogy would be a black lecturing a white on how to act with a “healthy whiteness.” In fact, it’s called recognising one’s white privilege.
Your analogies suck. Try again.
OK, Cray Cray, how about men lecturing women on femininity. How about Muslims lecturing Christians on the golden rule. How about heterosexuals lecturing gays on partner selection. How about liberals lecturing non-liberals about political correctness. How about Hillary Clinton just opening her mouth.
CrayCray thinks feminists are an oppressed class in academia. That’s fairly delusional.
Make it stop. No more 2-3%er misandrists and misogynists. Enough of the tyranny of the mentally ill.
They don’t call it Gloria Vanderbilt for nothin’.
I have never called myself a feminist and it baffles me why any gay man would ally himself with a movement that insinuates that masculinity and being a man is somehow wrong. I do believe, though, that ridiculous women’s events like these are mainly ignored by the huge majority of the population, in spite of the media making every effort to promote them. I wish I were at that meeting (I guess it’s no men allowed) to stand up and tell them that I’m just fine with my masculinity and if they don’t like it, then stay huddled in their little ”safe spaces” and leave me alone. PS: Interesting website.
Womansplaining.
Hey, if feminists can say that men explaining things to women is “mansplaining,” it’s only fair.
So, what upsets you exactly? reading the article, I think that the definition of “healthy masculinity” they are looking for revolves around the way some men treat women, gays, etc… the guest male speaker’s has a book that “offers advice on how men can ally with women to curb violence and change those aspects of the ‘boys will be boys’ attitude on male aggressiveness and masculinity that can lead to violence and abuse.” I think that women have a vested and reasonable interest in tackling that issue, since it affects them directly. What do you think?
I find it presumptuous, condescending, and offensive, Cas, because it comes from the feminist “All men are rapists and need to be shamed into not committing rape” school of thought, and if you had read the article and the background of the feminists behind it, you would realize this.
Feminists would be offended if Mohemmadans were lecturing them that “Men rape you because you dress like whores,” wouldn’t they?
Cas, please explain why men should ally with the women of today for any reason.
If women do have vested interest in tackling inter-sexual violence as you so claim, then they can go buy a gun and learn to use it.
It seems Cas and its fellow “feminists” are already on record calling women whores, supporting and endorsing men who sexually harass women, and calling for women who disagree with them to be raped into submission.
THAT’S why no one cares what “feminists” want, because it’s obvious they’re acting out of mendacious greed and hypocrisy.
Hi V the K,
I can understand the aversion to the “all men are rapists” stigma. I just didn’t get that underlying assumption from the article you linked to–just a call to look for cross gender lines of alliance on the issue of “inter-sexual violence”.
As for guns; yes, that is one approach, CthuluDreaming; just not the only one.
No wonder why so many men are going the MGTOW route.
To be be fair, I think men might be able to give actual useful information on sammich making.
I’m wondering where Craycray found atheists who don’t care about religion? Agnostics don’t care about religion. Agnostics at least admit that the afterlife is unknowable, and while we have no faith system, we allow that we can’t prove yea or nay. I stopped identifying as an atheist precisely because atheists that I know tend to make a religion of hating religious people.
I’ve taken to self-identifying as “Cautiously-Presbyterian Agnostic”.
“None”, “Atheist” or “None-of-your-business, thank you very-much” just aren’t politely-acceptable anymore; everything is so fraught with socio-cultural tensions these days.
Feminism’s stated goal is the empowerment of women such that they are equivalent to men in traditionally male dominated areas of life. Men are strictly superior to women by any physical and most intellectual metrics. The effective use of a firearm mitigates all of that, thereby fulfilling Feminism’s goals with minimal effort which would likely drop crime rates and the dreaded rape statistics, faux though they may be.
Furthermore, men and women have traditionally held disparate roles in society. Roles which encourage or discourage particular body types, behaviors, etc. Is it so difficult to believe that the male mind is utterly alien to the female, and vice versa? There is a reason many men just shake their head and mutter “women”, and vice versa. So please explain, to a man, how a woman, and it is women as per the article, will ever be able to understand what men need, and want, in the historical context and the impacts thereof moving forward.
My guess is after reaching a certain level of technicality, most women would just wave their hand in frustration assuming that men are too dumb to handle it. Ignoring the indisputable fact that men do not think like women.
As to the religious discussion, apatheists do not care; agnostics are convinced of the impossibility of knowing, which is not the same as not caring; and atheists and theists are sort of a given at this point. To any agnostic who does not accept the presence of a faith system in agnosticism look into the epistemological work of Karl Popper, he explains things much more patiently and thoroughly than I could manage here.
And then some of these same women claim ”nice guys” bore them to hell and like their men to be aggressive and in control. Already they’re told that catcalling is verbal rape, complimenting women is bad, and even looking at women (the male gaze) is evil. If I were a straight man, I’d be so confused that I couldn’t even go out on a date without worrying about being accused of sexual assault. Guys, either ignore this harpy or figure out a way to publicly object to her hardy-har-har humor.