Re: IP Addresses / split personality
Steve Baker
they could go to jail for it.
Feminism justified female "victim power" by convincing the world that we
live in a sexist, male-dominated and patriarchal world. In fact, the
world is both male- and female-dominated, both patriarchal and
matriarchal, each in different ways. Among other things, that's why
patriarchy and male dominance double as code words for male
disposability. The male's role - to provide and protect - led to the
disposal of men in war and work (in the "death professions" of
construction, firefighting, lumberjacking, trucking). While we
acknowledged the glass ceilings that kept women out of the top, we
ignored the glass floors that kept men at the bottom. Thus the "Jobs
Rated Almanac" reveals that the majority of the 25 worst jobs "happened
to be" male dominated.
By the Eighties, feminism's ability to articulate a women's light side
and a man's shadow side led to women's magazines, talk shows,
self-improvement books and TV specials that equated progressivism with
women as victims and men as victimizers. Rarely did we see women as
victimizers and men as victims (of false accusations, emotional abuse or
deprivation of visiting rights with their children). It was soon
considered progressive to criticize male legislators for making war, but
not to credit male legislators for making democracy. In the United
States, almost 1 million firefighters volunteer to risk their lives to
save strangers. Of these, 99 percent are men. We see TV specials that
ask the question, "Does the man next door molest girls?" but not "Does
the man next door save girls?" In our everyday lives we might see six
firefighters saving women, but no TV special points out that all six
firefighters were men - or that male police officers, rescue-team
members, lifeguards and ambulance technicians who save women's lives are
far more ubiquitous than men who jeopardize women's lives.
During Mike Tyson's rape trial in Indianapolis, the hotel in which the