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Hey Baby” and Anti-Male Violence

June 19th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Britain, Business, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Europe, Feminism, Israel, Media, Personal, Politics, Sex, The Middle East

online dating websites, christian dating websites, online dating agency, christian singles   dating, online dating service, gay dating services, many fish dating, online dating chat, matchmaker dating, executive datingModern, angry women now have an outlet of their own through a violent, anti-male video game that promotes the misandry that has become so prevalent in modern, Western culture:

Ever had one of those seemingly endless days? All you want to do is to get home... You're the last one out of the office. Its getting dark outside...

You walk down the streets and realize the streetlights are burnt out.

There's no one around. You hear a footstep behind you. The light flickers. You turn and he says, "I wanna lick you all over....."

And then you remember, you’re packing a 3' long .80 caliber machine gun that’s locked and loaded.

Ladies, are you sick and tired of catcalling, hollering, obnoxious one-liners and creepy street encounters? Tired of changing your route home to avoid uncomfortable situations? IT'S PAYBACK TIME, BOYS.....

When I was a waiter in high school in a Ponderosa Steakhouse in southern Illinois, we wore the required uniform: tan, khaki pants and a button-down, solid-color, long-sleeve shirt. In the summer, we could switch to shorts and roll the sleeves up. I had firm, muscular legs because I was on the tennis team as well.

I once walked to a table of middle-aged women to clear some of their dishes, and I overheard their conversation as I was walking away: "Look at the legs on him!" I thought it was a bit weird because I was sixteen, but I smiled at the compliment.

And that's why I can never understand why some women are so offended when men compliment them in public. As Laurie Penny writes:

As a morose-looking sort of person, I regularly get instructed to smile by strange men in the street, and without wishing to criticise men’s indisputable right to pass public judgement on absolutely any woman’s appearance and demeanour, too much of that sort of thing can make even the gentlest soul long to execute the leering scumbags with a great big gun.

Penny's tone and columnist photograph present her as a member of a certain subset of feminist who takes everything much too seriously by looking for sexism everywhere. Maybe I have lived here in Israel for long enough to get used to people offering both criticism and praise to complete strangers in public, so I see nothing wrong with a man telling a women (or vice versa) -- accurately -- that people are more attractive when they smile. Here, people will stop a mother with a stroller to recommend a different brand and tell a supermarket customer that a different orange juice is better. A waiter will tell a customer that she is too skinny and that she should order something larger than a salad. It's a part of life in a communal, tribal culture.

Of course, rude, disgusting comments are another story. Any man who walks up to a woman and says that he wants to "lick her all over" deserves to be slapped or kneed in the groin.

But I fear that the premise behind the Hey Baby video game -- and its popularity, since it is currently sold out -- is indicative of an underlying current of anger among Western women. And that is just as dangerous to society as the guns are in this virtual one. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was praised for depicting a kick-ass heroine who defeats the monsters instead of being killed by them (as well as for just being a terrific show) as in all of the prior decade's slasher films. And then came anti-male T-shirts and an educational system that began discriminating against boys. But killing men in a video game is one step closer to reality -- especially since Penny described the game as "cathartic."

Of course, I have the same feelings toward anti-woman video games like Grand Theft Auto in which players can have sex with prostitutes and then kill them rather than pay. The popularity of that genre is also evidence that modern men are angry at women as well. (A clear majority of primary-school students in a British study believe that it is acceptable to hit one's wife if dinner is not ready on time, according to a BBC report.) Both sexes are increasing furious at the other after the unintended consequences of feminism have revamped society in ways that no one could have predicted.

(Hat tip: Glenn Sacks)

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  • Genius

    Please fix your RSS feed!  (Quote)

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  • your fellow blogger

    I am a devoted fem­i­nist, and believe it or not, I don’t really have a prob­lem with men hol­lerin’ about my appear­ance. On most occa­sions, it can be pleas­ant, and ego boost and a har­bin­ger of sum­mer: the sea­son of mini-skirts and out­door adven­tures in the urban jun­gle. I do, how­ever, have a prob­lem with men telling me to smile. It is not an appre­ci­a­tion, but an intru­sion, it does not cel­e­brate the body-as-it-is, but pre­scribes behav­ior– as– it– should– be. It implies that women only have social value if they project hap­pi­ness. When this hap­pens, it always seems to me as if I am being told that what­ever inci­dent that made me morose is not impor­tant, that what­ever com­plex con­cept that I may be pon­der­ing– insignif­i­cant. This is why being told to smile always makes me feel more objec­ti­fied that being told that I have a nice rack or a fine ass. Those things are, indeed, part of me, so thanks. But if you are ask­ing me to put on a mask that is not part of me– no thanks mr. stranger. I am not a bar­bie doll of the past or your ideal robot of the future. I am a feel­ing think­ing woman. Now.  (Quote)

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    Oh, also I hate video games so I don’t think that I will ever play this game, I though I might like to see what it’s about since Grand Theft Auto is rather hilar­i­ous. The rea­son I find it dis­turb­ing is that it seems like it is more accept­able to shoot at fake men than to tell real men that you would really rather that they not talk nasty to you in pub­lic. My advice to ladies who don’t like being yelled at, yell back. This may prove a source of more last­ing vis­ceral sat­is­fac­tion.  (Quote)

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  • Chris

    Of course, rude, dis­gust­ing com­ments are another story. Any man who walks up to a woman and says that he wants to “lick her all over” deserves to be slapped or kneed in the groin.”

    Sorry, but con­don­ing and endors­ing tes­tic­u­lar abuse over triv­ial mat­ters ought to be con­sid­ered a hate-crime.

    Tes­ti­cles are the endocrine glands that pro­duce 95% of a man’s testos­terone. Trauma to the testes can dam­age the Ley­dig cells that pro­duce testos­terone. The con­se­quence of Ley­dig cell dam­age is low testos­terone pro­duc­tion. Low pro­duc­tion of testos­terone can increase a man’s sus­cep­ti­bil­ity to devel­op­ing heart dis­ease and osteo­poro­sis; causes weight gain, mus­cle loss, depres­sion and irri­tabil­ity, and; impairs cog­ni­tion and mem­ory. Only 50 kilo­grams of force is required to rup­ture a tes­ti­cle. Death via neu­ro­genic shock an arise from tes­tic­u­lar trauma, too.

    The worst effects of tes­tic­u­lar trauma out­weigh the worst effects of man-on-woman vagi­nal rape. There­fore, you should NEVER encour­age women to “knee a man in the groin” for some­thing as triv­ial as say­ing he wants to “lick her all over”.  (Quote)

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