Daily Observations - January 2024
Will this be the year that The Washington Post finally "gets it"?
“Why can’t we hate men?” — It’s been 5 ½ years since The Washington Post published, on June 8, 2018, a #MeToo-inspired rant written by Suzanna Danuta Walters, the director of women’s studies at Northeastern University, who openly and shamelessly expressed a Nazi-like hatred for men in a nationally read American newspaper. — Stephen Bond, Letters to The Washington Post: The Year in Review
January 31
“The [transexual] affirmation model is the prevailing narrative in education and mental health today,” Dr. Lachman confirmed. “Supposed experts tell parents to let their child run the show with respect to gender identity. Parents are supposed to step back and respect the child’s decision. Adults who can’t so much as define the terms ‘man’ and ‘woman’ tell us children know better than anyone else who they are and how they should identify. They claim children should be allowed to make the decisions about using a new name, opposite sex pronouns, how they’re going to dress, how they’re going to get their hair cut, what’s called ‘social transition.’ As they get older, children are allowed to undergo ‘medical transition,’ to select various medical interventions including hormones and surgeries.” – fictional testimony from a book by Hans Schantz, The Wise of Heart: A Modern-Day Re-Imagining of the Scopes Monkey Trial
January 30
“Men use power to get sex; women use sex to get power” – A Voice for Men founder Paul Elam, from a Regarding Men video
January 29
“… in fact, societal breakdown is the conscious or unconscious goal of many who drive these [feminist / social justice] movements. Such people cannot be negotiated with; only defeated, and I fear that the forces of reason and truth are far too scattered, too timid, too internally divided, and too uncertain of their own rightness to be able to quash the destructive energies that feminism and other social justice movements have released.” – anti-feminist Janice Fiamengo, The Fiamengo File 100 - All Anti-Feminism, All The Time
January 28
“I decline to bow down before a sexual principle, or to admit the justice of granting privileges on the basis of a sex-sentiment. What I contended and still contend is that the bulk of the advocates of woman’s rights are simply working, not for equality, but for female ascendency. It is all very well to say they repudiate chivalry. They are ready enough to invoke it politically when they want to get a law passed in their favour – while socially, to my certain knowledge, many of them claim it as a right every whit as much as ordinary women.” – Ernest Belfort Bax, early 20th century English barrister, also known as the “Father of the Men’s Rights Movement”, in his 1887 book No Misogyny But True Equality in To-Day
January 27
“But there is a difference between the peevishness behind, say, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” and the purposely lewd and crude language characteristic of feminism today. Think again of the emblematic hats at the Women’s March and what they made a household name. Measuring just by its profanity, today’s feminism is not your mom’s after all.” – Mary Eberstadt, Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
January 26
“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.” — Mother Teresa, When Mother Teresa dared to tell a U.S. President that abortion is murder
January 25
“In the case of #MeToo, related common sense seems to have gone missing. Throughout the literature of #MeToo, there is a cluelessness about relations between the sexes that almost defies understanding. Many women seem not to have been taught the most basic protective lessons—like not entering a boss’s hotel room at night. In fact, so socially vulnerable are these victims that they did not even know to stand up for themselves—until an international movement gave them permission to do so. They engaged in mimetic victimhood.” – Mary Eberstadt, Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
January 24
“We simply don't care much about men. In fact, the devaluation of male lives is so. entrenched in our psyches and endemic to our system that we refuse to see it -- even when it's smack in our face.” – men’s rights activist Marc Angelucci, Gender Bias Toward Males Frequently Gets Overlooked, Daily Bruin Online, 2/20/01
January 23
“Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.” – Marie Anne Du Deffand (1696-1780), a French hostess and patron of the arts
January 22
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent ... the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men [and women] of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.” – Louis Brandeis, United States Supreme Court Justice, 1916 - 1939
January 21
“‘Biological sex’ is a scientific description of the reproductive anatomies that have evolved to fulfil the function of sexual reproduction. Biological sex exists independently of humans and society. In mammals, there are two types of gamete and two classes of reproductive anatomy. The male sex class produces many small motile gametes – sperm – for transfer. The female sex class produces few large immobile gametes – ova – and gestates/delivers live young. In any individual, reproductive anatomy is almost always unambiguously male or female and observed correctly at birth, regardless of ultimate sexual function or dysfunction. Male and female reproductive anatomies differ qualitatively, not quantitatively, and there are no intrinsically-ordered states between male and female reproductive anatomies. Biological sex does not meet the defining criteria for a spectrum. Although rare, some individuals have disorders of sex development (also referred to as intersex conditions). Most of these disorders are male or female specific and do not cause ambiguous biological sex. Some individuals have reproductive anatomies with both male and female features; here, biological sex classification is a complex process with input from medical professionals and parents. Not one of these individuals represents an additional sex class. Reproductive anatomies differentiate and mature under the control of genetic and hormonal signals, and measurements of these factors have strong predictive power, but do not define the sex of an individual. Biological sex is fundamentally defined by male and female reproductive anatomy. Attempts to recast biological sex as a social construct, which then becomes a matter of chosen individual identity, are wholly ideological, scientifically inaccurate and socially irresponsible.” — Project Nettie, a group of scientists, medics and those in related disciplines who assert the material reality of biological sex and reject attempts to reframe it as a malleable social construct.
January 20
“I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even His life to love us. So, the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love, that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. – Mother Teresa, When Mother Teresa dared to tell a U.S. President that abortion is murder
January 19
“What the trans movement is now doing, after this comprehensive victory, is not about rights at all. It is about cultural revolution. It’s a much broader movement to dismantle the sex binary, to see biology as a function of power and not science, and thereby to deconstruct the family and even a fixed category such as homosexuality. You can support trans rights and oppose all of this. But they want you to believe you can’t. That’s the bait-and-switch. Don’t take it.” – Andrew Sullivan, The Trans Movement Is Not About Rights Anymore
January 18
“I have a great deal of difficulty with the idea of the ideal man. As far as I’m concerned, men are the product of a damaged gene. They pretend to be normal but what they’re doing sitting there with benign smiles on their faces is they’re manufacturing sperm. They do it all the time. They never stop. I mean, we women are more reasonable. We pop one follicle every 28 days, whereas they are producing 400 million sperm for each ejaculation, most of which don’t take place anywhere near an ovum. I don’t know that the ecosphere can tolerate it.” — Germaine Greer, promoting her book The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause, 1991
January 17
We frequently hear that women are segregated into low-paying dead-end jobs in poor work environments such as factories. But when The Jobs Related Almanac ranked 250 jobs from best to worst based on a combination of salary, stress, work environment, outlook, security, and physical demands, they found that 24 of the 25 worst jobs were almost-all-male jobs. Some examples: truck driver, sheet-metal worker, roofer, boiler-maker, lumberjack, carpenter, construction worker or foreman, construction machinery operator, football player, welder, millwright, ironworker. All of these "worst jobs" have one thing in common: 95 to 100 percent men. – Donna Laframboise, Canadian investigative journalist and writer, from The Princess at the Window: A dissident feminist view of men, women and sexual politics.
January 16
“Even though he's been bending over backwards to adjust to [women's] ever-changing needs, over the years he's taken a fair bit of flak for behaving like the male creature he was raised to be. He has also heard - and endured in manly silence - interminable lectures about how he must mend his ways. In fact, the story of his life in the aftermath of feminism has largely been a story of censure, blame, belittlement and distaste for the male person that he is. For one of the implicit, if unadmitted, tenets of feminism has been a fundamental disrespect for men.” – Wendy Dennis, Hot and Bothered: Sex and Love in the Nineties (as cited in The Princess at the Window: A dissident feminist view of men, women and sexual politics)
January 15
“I realized at that time that Koonz’s book about how the Nazis took control of Germany by clever use of media not perceived as political, including academic research, documentary films, movies, mass-market magazines, art exhibits, slide lectures, books, and purported humor, also reflected the way that five decades of feminist political and cultural indoctrination has infected much of the Western world.
In short, the book can be used to understand feminism’s dark, hateful side.” — Stephen Bond, The Feminist Conscience
January 14
“Other cases involving parents suing in behalf of their children who were accused of Title IX misconduct and committed suicide as a result … demonstrate what we have long asserted: that allegations of abuse are not mere name-calling. They often, in effect, destroy everything that makes life worth living: a good name, loving relationships, a decent job, education, and more. While celebrities and wealthy individuals may be insulated from the effects of the such accusations, for the vast majority of men an accusation is often a form of punishment in itself, which makes fair procedures and false allegations that much more worthy of our attention.” – “Accused Student Camren McKay Bagnall Commits Suicide. Parents Sue”, from Title IX for All
January 13
"If you hit anybody they have the right to hit you back." – Whoopi Goldberg, advocating for men’s right to self-defense against women’s physical attacks, on The View
January 12
“Yes, thousands of women are sexually assaulted each year. But anyone who zeroes in on a sub-category of violence and obsesses about it to the exclusion of everything else is a zealot. It's as though [uber-feminist Catharine] MacKinnon has taken an image of rape and magnified it to hundreds of times its original size. In the process the image has become so blurred she has trouble distinguishing acts of brutality from consensual love-making.” .” – Donna Laframboise, Canadian investigative journalist and writer, from The Princess at the Window: A dissident feminist view of men, women and sexual politics.
January 11
“Women commit the majority of child homicides in the United States, a greater share of physical child abuse, an equal rate of sibling violence and assaults on the elderly, about a quarter of child sexual abuse, an overwhelming share of the killings of newborns, and a fair preponderance of spousal assaults.” — Patricia Pearson, author of book When She Was Bad — Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence, challenges the stereotype of women as merely innocent victims.
January 10
From the “Just Plain Crazy Feminism” Department:
“I am Femitheist, the creator of the movement that is Femitheism, and hopefully, the future Mother of the New World” – Krista Jane Heflin, the self-named “The Femitheist Divine”, published a website The New Era of Feminism (now defunct) where she called for (1) the genocide of men to 10% of the population, and (2) an International Castration Day. For more see this website entry.
January 9
“This obsession with rape [in North America] is neurotic. There are attacks on men also. This privileging of the female victim is a distortion. To see the world in terms of rape is absurd. Throughout history there have been atrocities of every kind. Throughout history honourable men don’t rape.” – anti-feminist in Camille Paglia on Rob Ford, Rihanna and rape culture
January 8
“Woman power sounds great. But diverge from the Party line and your feminist sisters will turn on you like a pack of wolves. You will be demeaned in overtly sexual terms. You moral compass will be compared to those who deny the historical annihilation of millions. You will be accused of writing sordid filth.” – Donna Laframboise, Canadian investigative journalist and writer, from The Princess at the Window: A dissident feminist view of men, women and sexual politics.
January 7
“This book focuses on events and documents from the early 1990s. By then, ample evidence indicated that mainstream feminism had become extreme, arrogant, and intolerant. Back then, I thought it important to connect the dots, to meticulously document - via nearly 500 footnotes - how crazy things had become. I thought that if I could just show people what a monster feminism had turned into we could all take a deep breath and start thinking more carefully and clearly. I was part of a battle over the soul and destiny of the women's movement and, for a brief moment, I fancied I had a chance of influencing things for the better. But I'm all grown up now. An additional 20 years of observing how people and political movements behave leads me to harsher conclusions. In my eagerness to be impeccably reasonable and unimpeachably fair, I think I gave too many people the benefit of the doubt.” – Donna Laframboise, Canadian investigative journalist and writer, from The Princess at the Window: A dissident feminist view of men, women and sexual politics.
January 6
“As far as can be ascertained, no study has ever been published which sets forth an evidentiary basis for the “two percent false rape complaint” thesis.” – Edward Greer, The Truth behind Legal Dominance Feminisms Two Percent False Rape Claim Figure
January 5
“Any group repeatedly told that it cannot sin is a group which will increasingly play out its sin nature.” – comment made by Substack author Art Hutchinson, to Janice Fiamengo’s article Sh—ty Women in Feminism
January 4
“For those of us who care about justice for all, there can no longer be any doubt about the catastrophic destruction feminism seeks.” – anti-feminist Janice Fiamengo, Sh—ty Women in Feminism, January 3, 2024
January 3
“Hysterical claims, poison-pen letters, salacious exposés, abuser hit lists, and much personal grandstanding quickly became standard features of MeToo, and were allowed to take place, even cheered on, with the rationale that they constituted a salutary public airing of what had remained unspoken from a time not so long ago when rape victims were shamed and suffered alone.” – anti-feminist Janice Fiamengo, Sh—ty Women in Feminism, January 3, 2024
January 2
“Here’s an unpopular opinion: I’m actually not at all concerned about innocent men losing their jobs over false sexual assault/harassment allegations, Sorry. If some innocent men’s reputations have to take a hit in the process of undoing the patriarchy, that is a price I am absolutely willing to pay”. — Emily Lindin, a self-righteous gender-bigoted columnist for Teen Vogue who posted this #MeTwoFaced-motivated atrocity to her Twitter account in 2017
January 1
“The comfortable concentration camp that American women have walked into, or have been talked into by others, is just such a reality, a frame of reference that denies woman’s adult human identity.” – Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique