Refuting the Most Common Feminist Lies and Pseudo-Scholarship
NEWS: It's official now: Science Magazine and the University of Chicago Press own up that the "Peaceful Ancient Matriarchy" on Crete was just a politically-inspired fantasy. (But remember how fiercely it was defended by so many "intellectuals" just fifteen years ago! Remember the fuss over Gimbutas, Eisler, etc.?)
Is There Anything Good About Men? by Dr. Roy F. Baumeister. An invited address given to the American Psychological Association on August 24, 2007, it gives seldom-heard answers to feminists' charges that men are dysfunctional (or worse).Bonobos are celebrated as peace-loving, matriarchal, and sexually liberated. Are they? "Frans de Waal... who is the most frequently quoted authority on the species, has never seen a wild bonobo." (And how did so many bonobos lose their fingers and toes if they're so "nonagressive"?)
My article in Skeptic Magazine dissects the claims of The DaVinci Code, with its "sacred feminine."
The feminist movement as we have come to know it in recent decades is fundamentally a "con." It is as filled with falsehood, inaccuracy, and foolishness as astrology or parapsychology. As it is considered treasonous to criticise a sister feminist, no standards of accuracy or honesty are ever enforced. Hyperbole and deceit thus become the formula for success, "peer review" playing no role in reining in misinformation. Any would-be feminist who raises scholarly objections to the rampant misinformation ( Christina Hoff Sommers , Camille Paglia , Wendy McElroy , Elaine Showalter , Erin Pizzey , Elizabeth Loftus, etc.) is branded an 'enemy of women' and is drummed out of the movement.
Various feminists proclaim that women are 'under siege', that a monstrous social bias against them, if not a virtual war, is going on, that women have little respect or power (Steinem, Faludi, Tavris, etc.) Yet the notion of the American woman as a powerless "victim" is one of the most absurd notions ever foisted upon anyone. American women live, on average, seven years longer than men. They control 86 % of all personal wealth [PARADE Magazine, May 27, 1990], and make up 55% of current college graduates. Women cast 54% of the votes in Presidential elections, so they can hardly claim to be left out of the political decision-making process! They win almost automatically in child custody disputes. Women suffer only 6% of the work-related fatalities (the other 94% are suffered by men). Women are the victim of only about 35% of violent crimes, and only about 25% of all murders, yet because of our society's exaggerated concern and respect for them, special legislation has been passed to punish "violence against women" as if it were a more heinous crime than "violence against men". (Feminists claim to want "equality", and this is an example of what "equality" means to them, i.e., preferential treatment to address their concerns). Two out of every three dollars spent on health care is spent on women, and even if you don't count pregnancy-related care, women still receive more medical care than men - yet feminists still holler that womens health is being "neglected", and far too many of us credulously believe them. Of the 25 worst jobs, as ranked by the Jobs Related Almanac based on a combination of salary, stress, security, and physical demands, 24 of them are predominantly, if not almost entirely, male, which might explain why men commit over 80% of all suicides. (Most of these statistics come from The Myth of Male Power by Warren Farrell.)
Now, if it were really the case, as feminists claim, that men have selfishly arranged everything to be wonderful for themselves, absolutely ignoring womens' legitimate concerns and needs, would the above be true? Of course not. It is much more realistic to suggest that women have cleverly seized the upper hand by pretending to be helplessly trapped below! Looking at the full picture, and not the tiny, distorted one that feminists and those they have duped present, we see a very different picture: The American woman emerges as perhaps the most privileged large group in history, enjoying a never-before- seen level of affluence, power, leisure, and health, supported by the work, discipline, and self-effacing, life-destroying exertions of a group they have bamboozled - their men - into believing their cries of "victimization". The links below will help you to start finding your way out of the familiar maze of feminist lies.
Click here to read my article, Feminism, The Noble Lie
Take Back the Campus: refuting the Ten Most Common Feminist Myths (which are more accurately termed "lies," because feminists just keep on promoting them with reckless disregard for truth, no matter how many times the falsehood of these claims is pointed out to them.).
Read my article Bill Clinton and the Gender Gap, in the August, 1996 issue of The Backlash Magazine.
Read Steven Goldberg's article, Feminism Against Science
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