Not only is American society becoming feminized, as Bill Maher hilariously points out in the above YouTube clip – it is also occurring in Britain:
Back in the Nineties, emboldened by the successes of feminism, women sought to slay the dragon of patriarchy by turning men into ridiculous cissies who would cry with them through chick-flicks and then cook up a decent lasagne.
Suddenly, women wanted to drive home their newfound equality by moulding men to be more like them…
Now, over a decade later, women are waking up to the fact that these men are drippy, sexless bores. The feminisation of men hasn’t produced the well-rounded uber-males women were hoping for.
Instead, women are now lumped with flabby invertebrates, little more than doormats, whom they secretly despise but are too proud to admit it…
Men are now generally terrified of women. They hold their tongues for fear of being misinterpreted as sexist; they constantly attempt to secondguess their partner in order to avoid giving offence.
They preen themselves with groaning shelves full of beauty products so they won’t incur derision and scorn. They suppress their masculinity and present themselves as cuddly Mr Nice Guys, and won’t project self– confidence in case it’s regarded as unreconstructed machismo.
This backfiring feminist conspiracy has, of course, developed hand in hand with the march of raging political correctness in Britain. The two have combined like some potent chemical reaction to explode in the faces of a generation of women who thought that a ‘moulded’ man would make for a desirable one.
In recent years, men have been trained like circus seals to be inoffensive to women, and no longer know how to entice them and turn them on.
But women secretly long for a man with swagger, who is cocky and selfassured and has the cheek to stand up them and make fun of their feminine foibles.
Although the author, Nirpal Dhaliwal, loses his credibility when he essentially brags about cheating on his wife, he still makes some excellent observations.
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Hmmm. Bit generalising isn’t it? What’s eating you about feminism and women’s rights?
I can’t say as I’ve encountered that many man-hating feminazis in reality. It’s usually a “straw man” enemy made up to use as a scapegoat for society’s ills.
John
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Of course, it’s generalizing. It is impossible to talk about societal trends without generalizing. Of course there are exceptions to every rule and observation, but a trend is can be said to be generally true when it is correct a majority of the time.
I have nothing against feminism or women’s rights. I think men and women are equal. But problems occur when people — usually feminists — start to state that men and women are the same. This is patently false to anyone with even a casual ability to observe. Sam Scott(Quote)
My Ghillie » Feminism’s Effect on Society // Oct 20, 2007 at 13:39
This blog is extremely disturbing. I am a woman, who was raised in a white-middle class family. My parents were partners. My mothers PLACE in the home was where ever it best suited the family as a whole. Sometimes that meant in school, obtaining 3 degrees.
I consider myself to be an independant person, not an independant female. By discussing such concerns in a matter of male and female only proliferates the concepts of segregation. Biologically, we are different, mentally we are different, but so is one man from another, one culture from another, one race from another. They key point to all activism pertaining to the rights of people is that all are treated as equal. Because truthfully, before we are anything else, we are human. There are no inferiors or superiors.….……to say that there are, suggests that previous outdated mentalities of racism, classism, segregation were true and right. Although the slow progress made to overcome these aspects has been monumental. The expressed thoughts are so general and shovinistic it is offensive.
To say that the focus of feminism is to train a man, is ludicrous. It has nothing to do with sappy movies and lasagna, i dont want a man to be more like me, and further more, dont necessarily need or want a man. whether a man is drippy or sexless is his problem and sounds like an issue springing from a bad marriage.
There should be a healthy fear of being sexist. The truth is, as a PERSON we are no different. If your entire existence and place in this world, that allots you your rights as an individual, the compensation for work, the respect from society and peers, comes from whats in your pants. Then we have a problem.
Humans make up the rational population of the world. The entire concept of one and the other ( man and the woman) is only a subconcious way to categorize, separate and there for place someone higher or lower than you. If this mentality were to be taken away. And every PERSON was seen as just that, you could assume nothing.
The statement that men have been trained to be circus seals, says to me that 1. someone trained them, 2. they were trainable — so lacking direction and knowledge and confidence to do otherwise, and that if they WERE trained to be inoffensive, then there was a recognizable offense in the first place.
Training someone to be something other than what they essentially are, I consider to be amoral. Enlightening a person about different perspectives that may be seen as closer to a humane truth and necessity is a little better. to say the least.
Personally, for a woman to long for a man, is detrimental to herself. and likewise for a man. To long for anything exemplifies a void in personal contentment. Nobody NEEDS to have a wife or husband.
The idea of a “man with swagger, who is cocky and selfassured and has the cheek to stand up them and make fun of their feminine foibles.” disgusts me.
what an arrogant statement. Feminine Foibles? what is that? do men not have their pitfalls?
And once again the only way to distance ourselves from any proliferation of sexism, homophopia, racism, classism and so forth is to remove the concept of seperation and categorization, and realize that all humans are the same, with different cultures, charcteristics, preferences, beliefs, opinions, etc. etc, etc.
It takes all sorts to make the world turn. Nobody is superior or inferior. They are just different, and thank god for that. If everyone were the same the richness of life would not exist. Dana(Quote)
I find this interesting because in canada, the former colony follows the pattern of the founding country, Britain.
As a non-white male who was formerly open to any viewpoint here’s what I found:
A lesbian hates you because she thinks you’re gay/bi-sexual-so that means you’re trying to steal her partner. This is despite the fact that you are a straight man.
A feminist hates you because a female videographer insists on carrying the equipment while you carry the tripod. It’s not good enough.
A white woman tells you that her office of 95% white females do not want a non-white man in the office.
You constantly see white women in canada being hired because they are exactly what they are, and yet they don’t do the job any better than a man or a non-white woman.
Needless to say, women have forgotten how to be women, and men have given up their manhood because of radical feminism. 2bAman(Quote)
Bullshits, 2baman. Yours are the same gender conceptualization that thinks that it needs to be a cocky man or the women will eat you up and they need to be dominated. What about peace and being against that extrem feminism JUST because those particular women are bullies and not for equality and not men vs women? Anto(Quote)