National Bureau of Economic Research ( final)
M. Lafontaine
Feminist Lies Exposed
There are many objective studies that contradict feminist propaganda. In the
past few months we have presented many fact based exposes of the feminist
"party line".
(1) We have learned that domestic violence isn't what the feminists would
have us believe. Women are more violent than men in the home.
(2) We have learned that the "pay gap" isn't what the feminist say it is.
Women who participate in the job market the same way as men, are paid the
same way as men.
(3) We have seen feminist hoaxes exposed. Feminists use everything from
slander by innuendo to overt deceit in their propaganda war against men.
Feminists use statistics like a fish uses a bicycle.
(4) We have learned about the feminist zealots in academia who are violating
the standards of honesty, rational inquiry, and objective research. These same
"Women's Studies" gurus are brainwashing young women to believe the "big
lie" that men are evil and that women are oppressed. In Sandra Harding's
"The Science Question and Feminism" we find that Alfred North Whitehead,
and Bertrand Russell's classic treatise on mathematics, "Principia
Mathematica" for which they won the Noble Prize, should be called
"Newton's Rape Manual". It seems that math and science is a male
conspiracy to keep women oppressed.
(5) We have seen documentation of the anti male bias in domestic court. Men
are overtly discriminated against in matters of family law. This legal bias
against men is the most blatant example of gender discrimination in our
society. Where is the press coverage on this issue?
(6) We have seen many examples of the seething hatred for men that obsesses
many feminists. Some examples of this hatred will happen to you if you copy
this news release and pass it around.
We are talking about a wide spread cultural pathology here, not individual
manifestations of that pathology, i.e. Gloria Allred. Our focus is on
"FEMINISM", not individual feminists. Many "isms" are pathological.
Feminism is a sick kind of "ism". We do not hate feminists! We see individual
feminists as victims of a dangerous "cult", more to be rescued rather than
reviled. We honestly believe feminism is a pathological cultural movement.
We oppose feminism for the same reason decent people have always opposed
politically radical hate groups. We really see feminism as more dangerous
than the KKK, skinheads, the Militia, Fundamentalists, and Wicked Witch of
The West all rolled together.
Why, because it strikes at the heart of civilization. It destroys marriages and
families. It corrupts everything with which it comes into contact.
What follows is some more objective data that exposes the false, hate filled,
"party line" of feminism.
Issue # 1 : Rape & False Rape Charges
Actual incidences of false rape charges are much higher than these studies
indicate because in these studies, in order to be counted as a "false charge",
three conditions must be met:
1) There are no corroborating witnesses, i.e. it's her word against his.
2) There is no physical evidence of a rape.
3) Here's the tough one - before trial, the woman had to recant her testimony
and admit she made it up.
Formal studies have found the rate of "false rape charges", using only these
restrictive criteria, to vary from 27% to over 60%. Makes you wonder how
many guys are behind bars because the accuser didn't get cold feet about
sending an innocent man to jail.
One of the "informal" studies was done by the Washington Post when they
couldn't bring themselves to believe a press release about one of the formal
studies. So they sent reporters out to interview police and DA's all over
suburban Maryland. The number they brought back was about 50% false
charges. Death threats were made against the reporter who wrote the article
on false rape charges. Bomb threats were made against the newspaper. Are
there any studies that measure the degree of danger from telling the truth
within 100 miles of NOW headquarters?
Issue #2 Eating disorders and women
The press about the girls killing themselves by anorexia is bogus. Numbers
like 150,000 deaths per year were presented by Naomi Wolf, president
Clinton's new "Woman's Issues Advisor". Naomi Wolf somehow makes men
responsible for anorexia and compares males to Hitler in the same sentence:
"When confronted with a vast number of emaciated female bodies starved
not by nature but by men one must notice a certain resemblance." According
to the Centers for Disease Control, deaths from anorexia tend to be around
75 to 100 per year; deaths from bulimia are zero. Remember that anorexia is
a disease. You wonder why we guys go nuts about media feminists... here they
are claiming that a rarely fatal disease is actually killing hundreds of
thousands of women, and blaming this "plague" on men.
Issue #3: Girls are victims of patriarchal culture
Between 1950 and 1980, the suicide rate for males 15 to 24 increased more
than three times as much as the rate for females the same age. The male rate
increased 211%, the female rate 65%. [American Review of Public Health, v.8
p.424]
In the age group 25-34, the suicide rate for males increased 26%. The rate for
women went down 33%. The suicide rate for males in this age group is now 4
times that of the rate for females.
Watch what happens as boys become aware of their sex roles:
Suicide rates by age and sex per 100,000 population
[Vital Statistics of the United States, USGPO 1991]
Age ---------- Male --------- Female
5-9 ------------ 0.1 ---------- 0.0
10-14 ---------- 2.1 ---------- 0.8
15-19 ---------- 18.0 ---------- 4.4
20-24 ---------- 25.8 ---------- 4.1
See how girls' self-esteem drops as they enter high school? That's all you hear
about in the press. No mention of boys' suicide rate increasing 760% at the
same time, is there? Girls get all the press. Why?
Feminists are on-purpose trying to teach boys that what they are is evil; that
their fate is grow up to be wife-beating, child-abusing, daughter-raping,
deadbeat dads, the very scum of the Earth. Imagine what it must be like to be
an 8 or 9 year old boy, white, and to be taught that "white males" are the
scourge of the earth; a cancer on the planet, the violent oppressors of all.
Everyday, young men have their self esteem aggressively assaulted by feminist
lies. The damage of this assault on male children will haunt our culture for
years to come.
Issue #4: Criminal prosecution & sentencing
MALES FEMALES
% of murder victims in domestic violence 55.5% 44.5%
% of spouses acquitted for murder of a spouse 1.4% 12.9%
% of spouses who receive probation for murdering a spouse 1.6% 16.0%
Average sentence (in years) for murdering a spouse 17.0 6.0%
A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely to receive the death
penalty than a woman. Only one woman who received the death penalty has
actually been executed since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, and
that was at her request.
A North Carolina study found that men who committed second degree
murder received sentences an average of 12.6 years longer than women who
committed second degree murder.
How about other violent crimes?
According to a national Department of Justice study, men were sentenced to
an average of 159 months for rape, women 117. Men were sentenced to 83
months for aggravated assault, women 49.
The difference is not just the seriousness of the crime, either. A study
conducted in the state of Washington, a state with rigid sentencing guidelines,
found women were 57 times more likely than men to receive treatment
sentences rather than prison sentences, even when the crimes and offense
histories were the same.
CAUTION - the above are law enforcement statistics, thus they only reflect
antimale bias after conviction. The actual antimale bias in the justice system
is worse than these stats indicate. These stats do not reflect that police are
more likely to suspect a man, juries more likely to convict, solely because the
accused is a man, and prosecutors know this, so they are more likely to offer
a deal with a woman. After sentence treatment differs as well, with men less
likely to be released early.
Three times as many men are murdered than women, yet we have a "Crimes
Against Women" law, fer chrissake!
The Oppressed Class With a Privileged Status
The feminist claim that women are an oppressed class of people is one of the
biggest lies of all time. It would be hard to find a single example in history in
which a group that cast more than 50% of the vote got away with calling
itself the victim of oppression. Or an example of an oppressed group which
chooses to vote for their "oppressors" more than it chooses to have its own
members take responsibility for running for office. Women are the only
minority group that is a majority, the only group that calls itself "oppressed"
that is able to control who is elected to every office in virtually every
community in the country. Power is not in who holds the office, power is in
who chooses who holds the office. Blacks, Irish, and Jews never had more
than a small fraction of America's vote.
Women are the only "oppressed" group to share the same parents as the
"oppressor;" to be born into the middle-class and upper-class as frequently
as the "oppressor;" to own more of the culture's luxury items than the
"oppressor;" the only "oppressed" group to own the majority of wealth in a
nation, the only "oppressed" group to have 142% more net worth than the
"oppressor", the only "oppressed" group whose "unpaid labor" or unearned
income, enables them to buy most of the fifty billion dollars' worth of
cosmetics sold each year; the only "oppressed" group that spends more on
high-fashion, brand name clothing than their "oppressors;" the only
"oppressed" group that watches more TV during every time category than
their "oppressors."
If men are the "Ruling Class", they must be the most self sacrificing, and
benevolent bunch of dictators in history!
"If you think it is hard being a woman, just try being a man."