A Comment About

The Peter Pan Myth: The Real Reason Men Won’t Settle Down

November 19, 2008 - 12:36 am - by Michael Weiss
Micha Elyi
2008-12-01 00:41:06

There are a few women like Dr. Helen who are willing to stand up for men out of the principle that injustice is wrong, period. Women like Dr. Helen probably only make 0.1% (at best) of the female population.
– MRA (#96)

Oh, yes, 99.9 percent of us have no interest whatsoever in justice or fairness. C’mon now. That’s no different from a radical feminist saying 99.9 percent of men secretly long to rape women.
– Donna V. (#101),

Ha ha, just as MRA predicted: “Women say, ‘Not all women are like that.’ ” Donna V. fits the profile.

Donna V., it is different. First, I doubt that you ever put as much effort into disagreeing with any such “radical feminist” as you did into wagging your finger there at MRA. By the way, feminists who accept misandrous claims such as “99.9 percent of men secretly long to rape women” aren’t “radical,” they’re the ones the mainstream feminists consider hopeless compromisers. Radical feminists say or swallow such hate speech as “all men are rapists and that’s all they are” and they, the radical ones, are accepted by mainstream feminists as the leaders and intellects of the feminist movement.

Second, despite your attempt to distort MRA’s remarks, the bar that you have to surpass to escape being justly lumped in with 99.9% of your American sisters, Donna V., isn’t to exceed “no interest whatsoever in justice or fairness”. MRA noted that, in his opinion, as few as 10% of women have that attitude. To escape being lumped in with MRA’s 99.9% of women though, you must put some serious effort into “stand(ing) up for men out of the principle that injustice is wrong, period” as Dr. Helen does. You don’t have to equal Dr. Helen’s effort, exposure, or effectiveness, Donna V., but you do have to “stand up” for men.

Quibbling in the comment section of someone else’s blog and crying “Not all women are like that!” isn’t standing up for men. Rather, it’s being self-centered on your part, Donna V.