When The World Goes To Hell, It’s Men Who Die To Save Others. Remembering The First Responders Of 9/11

'They were not rapists or murderers or child abusers or sex offenders or incompetent bumbling idiots or any other negative, hateful stereotype we see and hear about men.'

By Janet Bloomfield (aka JudgyBitch): Of the 2977 people killed on September 11^th, 2001, 414 were NYC emergency personnel who responded to the attack. 341 firefighters, 60 police officers, 8 EMTs and 3 court officers.
Two of those responders were women. The other 412 were men.
Glance through any newspaper or magazine, browse the web, listen to the radio, watch television and you will be bombarded with the message that men are bad. They are rapists and murderers and wife-beaters and misogynists who delight in hurting women and take every opportunity to do so. That is the story feminism concocted about men and they have been horrifyingly successful in disseminating it widely. Men are treated with suspicion and often outright hatred, and the only reason for that is ironic –  because we are more or less living in one of the safest and most secure places on Earth.


Detonate a bomb or crash some planes into buildings, and it becomes very, very clear that what stands between us and abject horror is men. Men are the ones who rush into the smoke and flames and falling debris. Men are the ones who put their own lives on the line to save others. Men are the ones who die.




On this day I want to remember the men who died evacuating the World Trade Center, and making what could have been a death toll in the tens of thousands considerably lower. They were sons, husbands, fathers, brothers – they were brave men who did their jobs and gave their lives in that service.

They were not rapists or murderers or child abusers or sex offenders or incompetent bumbling idiots or any other negative, hateful stereotype we see and hear about men.

They were men. Just normal men.

Today is a day to remember the men who died, and to turn to all the men around us who are alive and say two simple words:

Thank you

Thank you for your need to protect others. Thank you for your strength and courage and bravery. Thank you for taking risks. Thank you for being afraid and still doing what needs to be done.  Thank you for facing danger. Thank you for being selfless.

Thank you for being a man.



Thank you.

Lots of love,
JB

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