A young man’s thinking……
Apparently the blog below reflects the way many young men are starting to think.
I’ve cut out some of the course language, but the logic is quite breathtaking, and the analysis is bang on target
- It’s got me thinking, yet again, about moving away from western feminist societies to someplace where women openly appreciate their menfolk for things other than being a walking wallet and private bodyguard……………to someplace where women aim to compliment, rather than continually compete with their menfolk…………………..Hmmmmmm.
At my local newsagent the women’s magazines are, inexplicably, laid out on the counter; Women’s Own, Bella, She, Elle, Chat, Heat.
Whilst queueing up I usually scan the covers and headlines and snicker at the brainless articles of celebrity gossip and ‘True Story’ tales that these tomes of glossy stupidity contain.
It’s amazing how much women seem to love tragedy, going by these magazines. There seem to be plenty of articles advertised on the front along the lines of Raped by my step-dad! and Face to face with my sister’s killer! It’s as if, even when heart-wrenchingly real, tragedy is just another bit of gossip for women to ingest at lunchtime and then vomit forth over other women at the water cooler when they should be working that afternoon. Then again, it says a lot that the women at the centre of these stories seem to be quite capable of selling their stories to some dumb magazine that averages fifty-pictures and fifty-words per-article.
What I notice the most about these magazines is who is on the cover; women.
Women, women, women and more women. That’s all there is on magazines for women.
Men’s magazine covers feature trains, planets, aeroplanes, computer game characters, naked women (in the case of porn mags), naked men (in the case of gay mags), half-naked women (photography mags), rock stars, computers, DVD players, guitars, sailing boats, motorboats, motorbikes, cars, guns, model train-sets…and so on.
Obviously the cover of magazines depicts what is of interest to the publication’s readers.
Scan the covers of magazines for men; they depict a whole vast spectrum of things.
Scan the magazines for women, and they all depict are women. Women, women, women, and more women!
Whilst men are fascinated by a whole range of stuff, all women are interested in, it seems, is women. If they show a passing interest in anything else (like men) it’s only in how they relate to women.
To quote, once again, from Richard Ford; men look out on the world through a window, whilst women gaze endlessly into a mirror.
Finally, what is the most visible achievement of feminism in academic circles?
That’s right; Women’s Studies !!!
They ****ing study themselves. Then they study themselves studying themselves!!!
And women dare to wonder why they are under-represented in the invention and scientific discovery stakes. How can they invent or discover anything when all their sex indulges in is dolorous naval gazing?
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I’m seeing a lot more of this kind of writing lately. Heart-felt, angry, well-observed and to the point. I was reading a comment only yesterday from a young engineer who was saying how difficult it was working with women engineers – they were more interested in the power/management aspect of the job than actually doing it. It looks as if the rising generation of men are just not buying the feminist lie. (And perhaps a few older men as well – I wonder how much of this was behind Neil Finn’s recent comments).
Back in the ’60s, when everyone was terrified of the Soviet menace, I recall my father saying that there was nothing to worry about – as soon as the old fellows who were part of the 1917 revolution die off, the whole communist bloc will fall in a heap.
Not long now before we’ll be seeing off the die-hard feminists.
Stephen,
This is something I came across the other day myself but in a different direction. A group of guys are getting together to do something different with their skills and money so as to make more money. Like a think tank.
I suggested maybe they get into the male market. And then I received the facts. The male market doesn’t buy magazines. The most prominent in NZ that cater for males struggles.
Young males don’t spend their money on crap. It’s a fact. They spend their money on cars and parts, PCs, games and booze and a good time. They are not interested in gossip and buying clothes and other similar accessaries. In fact they are not intersted in infomercials (long commercials) nor most crap on TV.
They are not interested in buying clothes online but generally buy what they need. Not what they want. (Except for the gays)
Women are the target because women spend, spend, spend. Infact I was just reading a magazine with stats saying comercialism is targeting young women when in fact it is the older women now who are the biggest spenders. the 40+ group.
Good observation Stephen.Is the appropriate description narcissism?
The late George Best said something like “I spent some of money on booze, women and fast cars, and the rest I wasted.”
Notice also that the women’s magazines are also full of stuff like astrology, tarot and clairvoyant predictions. (I wouldn’t dare criticize though…)
Stephen
In your post you referred to “the blog below” but there didn’t seem to be any further reference to that blog. Can you post the link or address?
Cheers
Hans go here for a look see.
Steel yourself though.
The language is very strong.
The outrage is palpable.
These guys hold back nothing.
BUT reading past the rage filled words alot of the logic appears stunningly cogent.
It gives me much hope that there are young men out there who will battle for Men’s rights.
Thus the torch has successfully been passed to another generation of men despite feminist’s best efforts to cast masculinity according to it’s own warped narcicistic mould.
Julie, this comment of yours has been one of the most insightful I’ve read in explaining the growing hostility toward men in the media.
Advertising companies have abandonned men as a target market because of the difficulty in cultivating them as mass consumers. So to maximise their marketing dollar, they are raising the price of advertising time that is aimed at women. This sends a message to makers of drama, news shows, documentary, sports etc, that the more female-friendly they make their content, the better price they’ll get from TV networks for their shows. This then gives us a view of the world in any media driven by advertising that is totally skewed in favour of women viewers. And this then feeds back into the viewers, re-inforcing as reality what is in essence female fantasy as identified by marketing focus groups.
I’ll go one step further and suggest that feminism as a political force isn’t as powerful as it would seem. It is women’s susceptibility to mass media. This would also explain why the feminist movement took off in the 1960s – the same time as TVs in every house – and not when women were first granted the vote many decades earlier.
Excuse me if this is already common knowledge!
Rob, I wouldn’t think that what you have written is common knowledge. In fact, I have never heard that before.
That’s very interesting. When I speak with women 60′s plus they remember what things were like. Feminists were making shows for the women. And a feminists made a show that taught women about sex which was taboo at the time yet helpful to the women. And popular. To them this was an important step to women’s rights.
There must have been alot on offer for women especially since they were ‘stay at home’ mums.