Originally posted by DrNE1
Femists like you have relegated themselves to insignificance.
Dr Anyone
Well put NE1. If only that last statement were true. As it stands, the extremist feminist agenda seems to be in the main of public thought. It has ceased to be about empowering women to make choices in their lives, but has instead turned to keeping women from participating roles which might have once been considered traditional. What?s more, they have chosen to hate men and seek so vehemently seek to displace them that they have forgotten what they were originally fighting for: equality - not domination. And the extreme feminist viewpoint's influence is vast. Look at main stream television. Where are the positive male role models? From children's cartoons to sitcoms and movies, the father role is quite often a stereotypically goofy/stupid guy whom the kids and/or mother seem to just put up with. The male role has been reduced to comic relief, or totally macho.
As a blue jeans wearing, margarita sipping, teva wearing, dyed hair having, Berkeley loving, San Francisco living, man, I can honestly say that I am sick and tired of seeing male's opinions being treated like offal in both the public media and private circles. When was the last time you said or heard "isn't that just like a man". I can assure you it is far more often than you've heard "typical woman", especially in the mainstream media. When a man says it, its controversial/outrageous. When a woman says it, the statement seems much more likely to be accepted as true.
Personally, I don't think that the looks of one's classmates is a valid criterion for chosing medical schools, but that doesn't mean its wrong, that means its different.
In such an age of "tolerance" and "freedom" its amazing how our society has become so closed-minded and constrained.
I personally await the day when men and women can come to one table see each other?s strengths and weaknesses, and - appreciating those differences - work together to compliment and build up, rather than tear down and destroy.