MenOnStrike: The most obvious proof is male bashing in the media. It is rampant and
irrefutable. From sit-coms and commercials that portray dad as an idiot
to biased news reports about the state of American men, males are
pounced on left and right. And that's just the beginning. The war on men
actually begins in grade school, where boys are at a distinct
disadvantage. Not only are curriculums centered on girls', rather than
boys,' interests, the emphasis in these grades is on sitting still at a
desk.
Plus, many schools have eliminated recess. Such an environment is
unhealthy for boys, for they are active by nature and need to run
around. And when they can't sit still teachers and administrators often
wrongly attribute their restlessness to ADD or ADHD. The message is
clear: boys are just unruly girls.
The truth is, men have
become second-class citizens. Things are no better in college. There,
young men face the perils of Title IX, the 1972 law designed to ban sex
discrimination in all educational programs. Under Title IX, the ratio of
female athletes is supposed to match the ratio of female students. So
if not enough women sign up for, say, wrestling and ice hockey, well
then: no more wrestling and ice hockey. What was once viewed equal
opportunity for women has become something else altogether: a demand for
equal outcomes. Those are not the same thing at all. Title IX is also
abused when it comes to sex. In 1977, a group of women at Yale used
Title IX to claim sexual harassment and violence constitute
discrimination against women. Genuine harassment and violence should be
punishable offenses, obviously. But the college campus is a breeding
ground for sexual activity, which makes determining wrongdoing (and
using Title IX to prove it) extremely difficult. Sexual misconduct does
not necessarily constitute harassment—and women have as much of a role
to play as men do. Here again men are in an impossible situation, for
there's an unspoken commandment when it comes to sex in America: thou
shalt never blame the woman. If you're a man who's sexually involved
with a woman and something goes wrong, it's your fault. Simple as that.
Judith E. Grossman shed light on this phenomenon in a recent Wall Street
Journal op-ed . A former feminist, Grossman concedes that in the past
she would have expressed "unqualified support" for policies such as
Title IX. But that was before her son was charged with "nonconsensual
sex" by a former girlfriend. "Title IX has obliterated the presumption
of innocence that is so foundational to our traditions of justice. On
today's college campuses, neither "beyond a reasonable doubt," nor even
the lesser "by clear and convincing evidence" standard of proof, is
required to establish guilt of sexual misconduct," she writes. When men
become husbands and fathers, things get really bad. In family courts
throughout America, men are routinely stripped of their rights and due
process. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is easily used against
them since its definition of violence is so broad that virtually any
conflict between partners can be considered abuse. "If a woman gets
angry for any reason, she can simply accuse a man and men are just
assumed guilty in our society," notes Dr. Helen Smith, author of the new
book, "Men on Strike." This is particularly heinous since, as Smith
adds, violence in domestic relations "is almost 50% from men and 50%
from women." Shocked? If so, that's in part because the media don't
believe men can be victims of domestic violence—so they don't report it.
They would rather feed off stories that paint women as victims. And in
so doing, they've convinced America there's a war on women. Yet it is
males who suffer in our society. From boyhood through adulthood, the
White American Male must fight his way through a litany of taunts,
assumptions and grievances about his very existence. His oppression is
unlike anything American women have faced. Unlike women, however, men
don't organize and form groups when they've been persecuted. They just
bow out of the game.
America needs to wake up. We have swung the pendulum too far in the other direction—from a man's world to a woman's world.
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