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lazarus1983 -> RE: Gloria Steinem, "If Men Could Menstruate" (5/16/2009 4:18:13 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Vendaval
To avoid derailing another thread here any further I present to our readers the oft-quoted and referenced Gloria Steinem satire, "If Men Could Menstruate". Some of the cultural references are obviously from the 1970's. An excerpt is below, click on the link at the bottom for the full piece.
"If Men Could Menstruate"
"What would happen, for instance, if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women could not?
The answer is clear- menstruation would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event:
Boys would mark the onset of menses, that longed for proof of manhood, with religious ritual and stag parties.
Congress would fund a National Institute of Dysmenorrhea to help stamp out monthly discomforts.
Sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free. (Of course, some men would still pay for the prestige of commercial brands such as John Wayne Tampons, Muhammad Ali's Rope-a-dope Pads, Joe Namath Jock Shields- "For Those Light Bachlor Days," and Robert "Baretta" Blake Maxi-Pads.)
Military men, right wing politicians, and religious fundamentalists would cite menstruation ("men-struation") as proof that only men could serve in the Army ("you have to give blood to take blood"), occupy political office ("can women be aggressive without that steadfast cycle governed by the planet Mars?"), be priests or ministers ("how could a woman give her blood for our sins?"), or rabbis ("without the monthly loss of impurities, women remain unclean").
Male radicals, left wing politicians, mystics, however, would insist that women are equal, just different, and that any woman could enter their ranks if only she were willing to self-inflict a major wound every month ("you must give blood for the revolution"), recognize the preeminence of menstrual issues, or subordinate her selfness to all men in their Cycle of Enlightenment.
Street guys would brag ("I'm a three pad man") or answer praise from a buddy ("Man, you lookin' good!") by giving fives and saying, "Yeah, man, I'm on the rag!" "
http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/funny/If-Men-Could-Menstruate.html
Blah blah blah...yes, Gloria Steinem, a woman, knows EXACTLY what men would do in a hypothetical situation. However, reverse the roles, and by god there's no possible way a man could ever EXACTLY know what women would do in a hypothetical situation, and isn't that just like a man, to think he knows all about women!
Feminism is hilarious in its inability to see the male gender as anything other than testosterone fueled neanderthals. Their stereotypes do not take into account the artist, the philosopher, or any other role that would make the male gender slightly multi-faceted. If we disagree in any way with feminism, we are nothing more than fascist male pigs.
I remember all too well my mother accusing me, by way of the statement, "You men..." of every sin committed against a woman. And my only crime was being born this gender, and I have inherited it all.
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