What does Genes have to do with it?DATE: 10/30/2007AUTHOR: Nathan Hansen
I consider myself both a liberal and a Men’s Right’s Activist which doesn’t make a lot of sense until you realize that I agree with most but not all of liberal views and most, but not all of men’s views. So I get into a lot of discussions/arguments with people on feminism.
One of the things that gets me the most riled up is the blatant double standards in our society. Feminism and women’s studies have done a lot to help our society. Women’s suffrage, and the equal rights acts have helped women move to a place of leadership and equality in our nation and those efforts should never be forgotten and always commended. It just seems now that many feminists want to tip the scales the other way. And the one double standard I see and hear about the most is biology
I’m sure everyone remembers the speech by Harvard chief Summers three years ago. He wondered about why women don’t go into physics and mathematics as much as men do. He posited several explanations for why this was, including the fact that women aren’t as naturally apt at or interest in math and physics as men and the fact that many academics don’t have as much time for a family and that influences women’s decisions. That caused a lot of controversy over whether he was saying that women couldn’t math and physics because of their biology, and ended up with him being fired.
Arguing the merits of his hypothesis aside, let’s look at the feminists view of education. Feminist love to bring attention to stories on how women outperform men in school, and then cite that as evidence that women are naturally more intelligent than men. The result is that women make up almost sixty percent of the campus population in colleges, and the number of men getting high school diplomas is declining. So its okay for men to be intellectually inferior, but even thinking that maybe women don’t like physics as much as men do is wrong? Pick one argument and go with it. Personally I think any person, male of female is just as capable to be a physicist or a secretary, or a laborer. I just don’t like the contradictions.
Another double standard is how feminist treat the sex drive in men and women. I heard a statement recently from a friend on the topic and the statement was that “Because of the way men naturally are, men cannot be pressured into having sex.” They were not saying that a man cannot say no to sex, but if a man and a woman have sex, the man could not have been coerced into doing it. Men are just horny and will sleep with any women that offers themselves to them.
The next logical step of this argument is of course that men cannot be raped. If a man cannot be pressured into sex, then a man obviously cannot be raped because a woman cannot overpower a man. So there you have it men, all those men who cried rape are liars, and secretly enjoyed it. Using an old, sexist term, they just had the “morning after blues.”
That’s the thing that bugs me the most. Feminists had to fight hard to get past the stereotype from the quote above and be able to convict rapists. As soon as they have their victory they go and turn it back on men.
Anyone who took Anthropology 111 might have read a book called Culture as Given, Culture as Choice. This book also did a brief analysis of men and the genetics of men. The book at one point said “All societies understand the scourge of single men. Single men are violent, and destructive and have a negative impact on society, and as a result die off sooner than women Men are weak.”
I want to see anyone try to write a book on how women are weak. They would be kicked out of academia before they had the first draft done. This book however was used for two years as a teaching guide for students on culture and kinship. I don’t think anyone should have to read a book attacking women any more than they should have to read a book attacking men. So why the double standard feminists?
