Someone at RPW posted this video the other day (I can’t remember who or what post). I had forgotten all about this scene but it describes things so well.
Enjoy.
What have men ever done for us?
04 Friday Dec 2015
Posted in Thoughts
On the Rock
%d bloggers like this:
Thanis for the good word. Sometimes men feel like this.
Men built the houses you live in. Men designed and built the cars that you drive. Men built the roads that you drive on, and the building that you go to work in. The company that you work for? Founded by men. The food that you eat was farmed by men and harvested in the heat, by men with aching backs. When you go home to your house or flat, it is men who guard you while you sleep. If there’s a prowler or a fire, it will be men who come and rescue you. It is men who shield you from gunfire with their bodies, as Shannon Johnson did in San Bernadino, saving the life of his female co-worker, Denise Peraza. As men did in the Colorado movie theater when James Holmes was murdering people with guns. It was the men of 1912 who refused seats on lifeboats until the women were evacuated.
Your lives are made possible by men.
And what’s our reward for that? Screed and shaming and misandry and hate.
It’s not you who needs to hear this, Stingray, but there are plenty of young women who do.
À bientôt,
Mistral
Hey, if you are doing Monty Python on what men have done for women, don’t forget men’s most important invention: French Ticklers! Black mambos! Crocodile ribs!
OK, my Papist. Humor. Is Dark. But you started it! 🙂
http://freedompowerandwealth.com
Men have done everything! The whole civilization, every invention, all the progress. Everything came from men. Only fools and ignorant could think otherwise.
Miss your posts Stingray… hope all is well.
Thanks, Dragonfly. All is well, just busy. The kids are getting older now and we do a lot more stuff. I’m on the internet, overall, much less. I have a few posts I want to write, but the drive just isn’t what it used to be.
Mistral said:
“Men built the houses you live in. Men designed and built the cars that you drive. Men built the roads that you drive on, and the building that you go to work in. The company that you work for? Founded by men. The food that you eat was farmed by men and harvested in the heat, by men with aching backs. When you go home to your house or flat, it is men who guard you while you sleep. If there’s a prowler or a fire, it will be men who come and rescue you.
First of all, this comment is one of the most ridiculous, disrespectful, and demeaning things a man would choose to write about women. How awful! How ugly! Do you really think along those lines, or are you just trying to get a response such as the one I have written below?
No mature, loving, woman-respecting man, that God created, would throw such ugly, venom at women. Of course men built roads and buildings, of course you all did. What did you expect? Any man with decent, common sense, and awareness of the design of the male and the female body, would know that women are not able to complete the same physical tasks as a man. Wake up and think about the flow of your thought processes, if you are able to. You show a lack of knowledge of God’s beautiful design when he made his creations- the man and the woman.
But if you really want women to catch up to men’s tasks and build some structures, fight burglars, rescue and carry adults from burning buildings, maybe you could go to medical school, study, seek knowledge, and come up with some inventions and techniques that would change women’s physical bodies so that women would have the same strength that men have. Also, maybe you could study and invent techniques that would enable men to do the things that females already do with their bodies, such as the 5 day painful monthly, the ability to conceive, to get pregnant, carry a baby in the womb, give birth, and then feed babies from the breast. This way it would free up women so to get your technique done to their bodies, in order to be able to build roads and buildings.
See Mistral, while you’re imitating others in tearing women down and then bragging and boasting about men having physical strength. You could learn what a real man says about women. You get no points from respectable men, only the applause of the angry, hate-filled people, who like to degrade women
@Jean: If you were attempting to prove my point about “[s]creed and shaming and misandry and hate”, congratulations; you nailed it.
A friendly suggestion, Jean (and this is as friendly and actionable as it gets): Address where he’s wrong, instead of making assumptions about motive or… whatever that “bragging and boasting” thing was. Disprove his points, don’t prove his point.
Stingray, you gotta hop in here. My sense of humor is going to get the better of me eventually, and this week hasn’t helped my desire for self-restraint.
@peregrinejohn. Jean, in rather spectacular fashion, missed my point, which was about the current cultural narrative, and how men are regarded and represented.
Don’t believe me? Can you name the last father in a TV show who wasn’t portrayed as little more than clueless idiot or a weak-minded tavern oaf? Maybe Heathcliff Huxtable? Charles Ingalls? Howard Cunningham? Mike Brady? You have to go back 30 years. “Father Knows Best” couldn’t be made now. The first thing that would happen would be the name would be changed to “Mother Knows Best….Because Dad is a Moron”, and then the plot lines would be adjusted from there. Instead we have the “King of Queens” (doofus), “Everybody Loves Raymond” (generally incompetent) and, well, Homer Simpson. Maybe the guy from “Mike and Molly” isn’t an imbecile, but I don’t really watch TV. The stock characters are the precocious, high-achieving kid, the wise, put-together wife, and the drooling idiot father who is a danger to himself and others.
We have reached the point where the feminine imperative dominates our media, our cultural and educational institutions, our civil courts and (albeit slightly less so) our criminal courts. In our schools, boys are not treated like boys. They are treated like defective girls (H/T: Christina Hoff Summers). Anyway, I was simply making a point about societal attitudes, how pervasive they are, etc. AWALT aside, I would generally exclude RPWs from being Part of the Problem, but, well, AWALT, as it turns out.
Peregrinejohn,
Go with your gut and do what you need to do. Mistral is right, Jean missed his point completely. I thought better about responding myself when there is no understanding right from the get go.
Mistral,
I don’t think Jean is RPW. Regardless, AWALT always. It is what we do with AWALT that makes the distinction.
I’m afraid she’s not returning. Pity. I understand why my cat likes to bring live toys in the house, but had mastered that urge by the time she fled.
We each have a base nature, hard-wired into us: AWALT, yeah, and we have our version, too, though this side of it gets beaten up instead of celebrated. Some people figure our basic selves is our “truest” selves and should be amplified, maximized. Others think the way past the problems is denying our animal selves entirely, and refusing to even look at what is there. The better way, I think, and I suspect you think, and which I wish Jean could see, is recognizing that the base nature is there for a reason, for good reasons in fact. It’s just immature. We have the capability of growing beyond it and harnessing our natural strengths, but it must be done by building on them, not childishly denying their blatantly obvious existence.
“The better way, I think, and I suspect you think, and which I wish Jean could see, is recognizing that the base nature is there for a reason, for good reasons in fact. It’s just immature. We have the capability of growing beyond it and harnessing our natural strengths, but it must be done by building on them, not childishly denying their blatantly obvious existence.”
This is so true, and very beautifully said!
I do think that. As a matter of fact, for months I’ve had a post in my drafts about this. I just need to make myself sit down and finish it.
Thank you, Dragonfly. Nice to see you again.
Stingray, it’s one of the core pieces of my personal philosophy. I’ll be interested to read your thoughts on the matter.