Stardate 20030117.1143

(On Screen): You know, sometimes I think the "new sensitivity" goes too far. I've read about "finding your inner female" and blah blah. Some of it seems to be motivated by an ideological hatred of testosterone, I gather. Kay Hymowitz writes:

The first variety—radical feminism (or gender feminism, in Christina Hoff Sommers’s term)—starts with the insight that men are, not to put too fine a point upon it, brutes. Radical feminists do not simply subscribe to the reasonable-enough notion that men are naturally more prone to aggression than women. They believe that maleness is a kind of original sin. Masculinity explains child abuse, marital strife, high defense spending, every war from Troy to Afghanistan, as well as Hitler, Franco, and Pinochet. As Gloria Steinem informed the audience at a Florida fundraiser last March: “The cult of masculinity is the basis for every violent, fascist regime.”

Gender feminists are little interested in fine distinctions between radical Muslim men who slam commercial airliners into office buildings and soldiers who want to stop radical Muslim men from slamming commercial airliners into office buildings. They are both examples of generic male violence—and specifically, male violence against women. “Terrorism is on a continuum that starts with violence within the family, battery against women, violence against women in the society, all the way up to organized militaries that are supported by taxpayer money,” according to Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, who teaches “The Sexuality of Terrorism” at California State University in Hayward. Violence is so intertwined with male sexuality that, she tells us, military pilots watch porn movies before they go out on sorties.

So the solution to the world's problems is to eliminate every form of male influence and male identity. Which may be why the latest fashion trend is to make men look more like women. Then they will come to appreciate the virtues of femininity and stop being such horrible violent brutes.

Tell me, is anyone surprised to learn that this new fashion trend comes from Europe? (The news report says that it was shown in Milan and created by a Brit, but I just know that Brussels had something to do with it.) Somehow I don't think it's going to catch on here in the US. And thus will it be that this will join the litany of the failings of the stupid Americans, the things we know we should do but pigheadedly refuse to: Kyoto! ICC! Falsies for men!