Seeker of Truth
05-26-2003, 10:14 PM
Cut Men: Do they Not Bleed
by Wendy McElroy, Editor, ifeminists.com and FOXNews Columnist
May 15, 2003
Male bashing -- the stereotyping of men as brutal, stupid or otherwise objectionable -- is commonplace. Our sons, husbands, fathers and men-friends are gleefully slandered because they are male. They are subjected to malicious jokes and attitudes that would be decried if directed at blacks, Hispanics or women. The assault against men must stop. But how?
The message that being male is somehow seriously wrong and should be controlled has been broadcast for over three decades. That message is now embedded in laws such as affirmative action and in policies such as bias against fathers in family courts. The damage inflicted on the men in our lives is clear.
• As children, boys are falling behind in the public school system, a process that Christina Hoff Sommers has thoroughly and persistently documented.
• As young adults, male students on American campuses are outnumbered by females by a ratio of four to three, with males receiving only 43 percent of all college degrees.
• In middle age, men are badly slighted by public policies. For example, "women's health" receives far more funding despite the fact that men have higher rates in all but one of the 15 leading causes of death. The May issue of the American Journal of Public Health (05/03), cites social factors as an important contributing cause.
• In old age, the average man is likely to die five years before the average woman. Only now is this disparity being called "a silent health crisis."
From cradle to grave, men are routinely disadvantaged by social attitudes and the legal system.
More @ american-partisan.com (http://www.american-partisan.com/cols/mcelroy.htm)
by Wendy McElroy, Editor, ifeminists.com and FOXNews Columnist
May 15, 2003
Male bashing -- the stereotyping of men as brutal, stupid or otherwise objectionable -- is commonplace. Our sons, husbands, fathers and men-friends are gleefully slandered because they are male. They are subjected to malicious jokes and attitudes that would be decried if directed at blacks, Hispanics or women. The assault against men must stop. But how?
The message that being male is somehow seriously wrong and should be controlled has been broadcast for over three decades. That message is now embedded in laws such as affirmative action and in policies such as bias against fathers in family courts. The damage inflicted on the men in our lives is clear.
• As children, boys are falling behind in the public school system, a process that Christina Hoff Sommers has thoroughly and persistently documented.
• As young adults, male students on American campuses are outnumbered by females by a ratio of four to three, with males receiving only 43 percent of all college degrees.
• In middle age, men are badly slighted by public policies. For example, "women's health" receives far more funding despite the fact that men have higher rates in all but one of the 15 leading causes of death. The May issue of the American Journal of Public Health (05/03), cites social factors as an important contributing cause.
• In old age, the average man is likely to die five years before the average woman. Only now is this disparity being called "a silent health crisis."
From cradle to grave, men are routinely disadvantaged by social attitudes and the legal system.
More @ american-partisan.com (http://www.american-partisan.com/cols/mcelroy.htm)