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Feminism is the Product
of Female Selfishness and Male Chivalry
© Peter Zohrab 2002 |
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Feminism is the Product of Female Selfishness and
Male Chivalry. If this is hard for you to believe, have a look at the
Men's Rights Manifesto, reproduced below, with
comments added in red. Think about the issues and about my analysis as regards
female selfishness and male chivalry -- and make up your own mind. Note:
There is quite a bit of repetition, because the same processes produce similar
results across a wide range of issues.
Information issues are basic to the success or failure of the Men's Movement.
We have to be able to get our point of view across in an intellectual climate
where women are generally considered to be the victims of male oppression
in an evil patriarchy. Comment: Men have been too chivalrous
-- they have refrained from pointing out all the advantages that women enjoy
over men. If women had really been oppressed by patriarchy, men would never
have allowed women to enjoy all these advantages/privileges.
Anti-male bias in the media must be monitored and records kept. Complaints
must be lodged where appropriate, and publicity given to the complaints. Comment:
Women journalists have been selfish to cultivate their persecution-complex,
and male journalists have been too chivalrous in letting them play out their
victim-fantasies to the detriment of their professional objectivity.
Teacher unions usually have separate female officers on their executives
and at branch level. These often use member funds to circulate Feminist propaganda,
which then gets passed on to students and parents. This propaganda sometimes
gets discredited later (e.g. the theory about boys dominating coeducational
classrooms). Comment: Women teachers have been selfish to
cultivate their persecution-complex, and male teachers have been too chivalrous
in letting them play out their victim-fantasies to the detriment of their
professional objectivity.
Women's Studies departments offer pseudo-academic courses in man-hating.
Women's Studies departments at universities act as centres of Feminist propaganda-writing,
and also as headquarters for Feminist activism within the university community.
Some U.S. universities already have Men's Studies departments. Men's Rights
activists should push for equity. This means that every university that has
a Women's Studies Department should either abolish it, or have a Men's Studies
Department as well, in order to counter Feminist propaganda. Comment:
Women academics have been selfish to cultivate their persecution-complex,
and male academics have been too chivalrous in letting them play out their
victim-fantasies to the detriment of their professional objectivity.
Where Men's Studies departments exist, they are sometimes just as anti-male
as the Women's Studies departments.
The Ministry of Women's Affairs is just a Feminist propaganda-house. For
the same reasons that men need Men's Studies departments in universities,
men also need a Ministry of Men's Affairs in all countries (such as New Zealand)
where a Ministry of Women's Affairs exists. The alternative solution is for
all Ministries of Women's Affairs to be abolished. Comment:
Women have been selfish to cultivate their persecution-complex, and males
have been too chivalrous in letting them play out their victim-fantasies to
the detriment of Government sexual impartiality.
Feminism has captured the legal system to the detriment of men. Legal issues
are second in importance to Information issues in the Men's Movement. In fact,
one of the main reasons for pushing the information issues is to achieve our
goals as regards legal issues such as the following. Comment:
Women lawyers have been selfish to cultivate their persecution-complex, and
male lawyers have been too chivalrous in letting them play out their victim-fantasies
to the detriment of the professional objectivity of the legal systems of Western
countries. This manifests itself in various ways,
such as biased inquiries into "Women's Access to Justice", without any study
of Men's access to justice being held.
This should cease to discriminate against men in areas such as child-custody
and false child abuse and domestic violence accusations in the Family Court.
A mere accusation of child abuse or domestic violence should not have any
effect on the accused's chances of obtaining custody. The charges should have
to be proved in court first. Comment: Here the main issue
is male chivalry in judges, which is increased, rather than diminished, by
the selfish Feminist dogmas introduced by female lawyers, judges and academics.
Men in conflict with women routinely have their feelings discounted or ignored
by both male and female judges.
People making false accusations (such as accusations of rape or sexual
abuse of children) should be prosecuted as a matter of course and police policy, and the
penalties should be made equivalent to the penalties involved in the type
of crime that the false accusation related to. This is necessary as a deterrent.
Comment: Feminist theorists have indulged in the selfish
lie that women never tell lies in such cases -- and many men have been so
chivalrous as to believe this huge lie. Police have taken the chivalrous line
that they don't want to prosecute false accusations too harshly, because they
don't want to discourage accusers from coming forward. In this scenario, the
rights and feelings of men who are falsely accused are ignored.
A balance needs to be achieved between the needs of society to protect
itself against sex abusers, and the need to protect innocent people from manufactured
memories of supposed abuse in childhood produced in adult minds by Feminist
counsellors. Comment: Feminist theorists have indulged in
the selfish lie that women never tell lies in such cases -- and many men have
been so chivalrous as to believe this huge lie. Police have taken the chivalrous
line that they don't want to prosecute false accusations too harshly, because
they don't want to discourage accusers from coming forward. In this scenario,
the rights and feelings of men who are falsely accused are ignored.
The anti-male hysteria surrounding this issue must be removed, by publicising
the research statistics showing that women batter men just as often as men
batter women, by encouraging battered men to come forward, and by educating
police to take a more balanced view of this issue, and to stop arresting men
when women are at fault. More research must be done and publicised into the
causes of domestic violence, since it is currently presented as if men beat
their wives for no reason at all. Feminists must not be allowed to monopolise
this issue, as they tend to ask misleading questions. The problem is that
Feminists have been pushing the legal systems of Western countries towards
a situation where women can successfully plead provocation in crimes against
men, while men cannot successfully plead provocation in crimes against women.
Comment: The United States has a "Violence Against Women"
Act on its statute books. Other Western countries are only slightly less anti-male
in their approach to male-female violence. The massive female selfishness
and male chivalry that produced this outrageous lunacy speaks for itself.
Sexist, anti-male offences such as "Assault on a Female" must be removed
from the statute-books. Comment: The massive female selfishness
and male chivalry that produced this outrageous lunacy speaks for itself.
The restrictions on defence lawyers in rape trials must be removed, in
order to safeguard the rights of innocent defendants. It is up to judges and
juries, not parliament, to decide what evidence is relevant in a given case.
Comment: In this scenario, the rights and feelings of men
who are falsely accused are ignored. This is the result of male chivalry and
female selfishness.
Men must campaign against women-only defences and men-only crimes. Feminists
have been steadily working towards the goal of getting all women treated as
innocent victims, no matter what they have done -- and all men treated as
criminals, no matter if they are innocent. Comment: This
is the result of lobby-group politics. Selfish Feminists have convinced politicians
and the media of the simple mantra "Women are Oppressed", and after that it
has been a simple process to get more and more pro-women, anti-male legislation
passed, with chivalrous male politicians and journalists conniving in this
one-sided, undemocratic process, where men were not represented by any significant
lobby-group.
The definition of rape must be restricted, and all attempts to expand the
definition of rape to include anything a woman might afterwards wish she hadn't
done should be strenuously resisted. Comment: The anti-male
legislation on rape that has been passed in recent years is the result of
lobby-group politics. Selfish Feminists have convinced politicians and the
media of the simple mantra "Women are Oppressed", and after that it has been
a simple process to get more and more pro-women, anti-male legislation passed,
with chivalrous male politicians and journalists conniving in this one-sided,
undemocratic process, where men were not represented by any significant lobby-group.
Instances of anti-male police bias must be recorded, filed, protested about,
and brought to the attention of the media and the public. The Police must
be made aware of the need to train recruits to avoid anti-male bias in their
dealings with the public. Comment: The Police are corrupted
by anti-male Feminism. In New Zealand, no man can get into the Police force
if his physical attributes are as pathetic as those that suffice to get a
woman into the Police force. So we now have physically incompetent female
police officers who have double-standards Feminism to thank for their jobs.
This makes it certain that they -- and the Police generally -- will enforce
anti-male double standards, because these double standards were the rules
under which they competed for entry into the Police themselves. What happened
to the slogan "Equal Pay for Equal Work ?" Male police officers are bound
to be demoralised by this situation, and by having to support their physically
incompetent female colleagues in front-line situations. The performance and
the morale of the police are bound to suffer.
Infanticide by women should be punished just as severely as infanticide
by men. Comment: it is male chivalry that created the situation
where the Law treated infanticide by women more leniently than the same act
committed by men.
Men's sacrifices in war must be suitably recognised by Society. They are
not suitably recognised if officials and the media pretend that women made
equal sacrifices in wars when they actually did not do so. Laws must either
guarantee sexual equality in wartime conscription and peacetime military service,
or compensate men for this unequal burden by giving them special privileges.
Comment: Female selfishness and male chivalry have attempted
to sweep this issue under the carpet.
Men are entitled to a reproductive "choice", and should be allowed to terminate
their parental rights and responsibilities, just as a woman can unilaterally,
at present. A woman can terminate her parental rights and responsibilities
unilaterally, by having an abortion. If women did not have this unilateral
reproductive "choice", on the other hand (see "Choice for Men II" below),
then men should not have one either.
Unplanned parenthood can completely disrupt a man's life. It can disrupt
his education, it disrupts his mental health, and it often disrupts his entire
family life.... Paternity, or additional offspring, may force upon the man
a distressful life and future. Psychological harm and heartbreak may result.
Mental and physical health may be taxed. There is also the distress, for all
concerned, associated with the unwanted child. The continuing stigma of unwed
fatherhood may be involved....
Men have been treated as an under class without reproductive rights....
Denying men reproductive rights is humiliating, oppressive, offensive to the
basic principles of human dignity. The decision as to whether or not a particular
man will terminate his parental rights and responsibilities is a decision
that can be made by that man only. Women or men who trick their partners into
involuntary parenthood should be prosecuted and punished by the law. Comment:
Female murderous selfishness and male chivalry have produced the sexist and
agist abortion scenario that we have today in many Western societies.
A father should legally have an equal say with the mother in any decision
relating to abortion. This is because the father's wishes have equal status
with the mother's wishes, and both parents tend to have an equal financial,
moral and legal responsibility for any child that is born. In many countries,
the father is forced to contribute to the child's upkeep -- whether he actually
lives with the mother, has custody or access rights, or not. Any abortion
consent form should need to be signed by both natural parents. If this is
not the case, then the father has the right to "Choice for Men I" (see above).
Comment: Female murderous selfishness and male chivalry
have produced the sexist and agist abortion scenario that we have today in
many Western societies.
Abortion is the grossest form of human rights violation on the planet,
and is yet another way that women can issue a contract to kill with impunity,
in many countries. Comment: Female murderous selfishness
and male chivalry have produced the sexist and agist abortion scenario that
we have today in many Western societies.
Tax law should not discriminate against the two-parent, one-income family.
Family income should be taxed as one unit. Feminism is hostile to the traditional
two-parent, one-income family, which is associated with stable societies with
low crime-levels. There is a mass of evidence associating increased numbers
of single-parent families with increased crime. Women in the workforce drive
down real wages by increasing the pool of available labour. This in turn makes
the single-income family less viable. Comment: Selfish Feminists
and chivalrous males dominate the media, so they have generally avoided looking
at the social consequences of Feminist "reforms".
Equal funds should be allocated to research, prevention, information and
treatment relating to male-only diseases (such as prostate cancer and testicular
cancer) as to female-only diseases. As men have a greater mortality than women
from most diseases, and a shorter life-expectancy than women, Men's Health
should be a priority spending area within Vote Health. Comment:
This is the result of lobby-group politics. Selfish Feminists have convinced
politicians and the media of the simple mantra "Women are Oppressed", and
after that it has been a simple process to get more and more pro-women, anti-male
health legislation and regulations passed, with chivalrous male politicians
and journalists conniving in this one-sided, undemocratic process, where men
were not represented by any significant lobby-group.
Since Feminists favour Equal Employment Opportunity and oppose separate
men's clubs, the sexual apartheid system in individual, non-contact sports
should be abolished, e.g. female tennis players should play in the same competition
as men players -- for the same prizes. The alternative is to enshrine sexual
segregation in some areas of social and sporting life in legislation, with
payments for sportsmen being set substantially higher than those paid to sportswomen
-- to reflect the different objective standards involved. Comment:
Sport is one of the most obvious areas of anti-male double standards, brought
about by female selfishness and male chivalry. Female-only sports should banned
from mainstream events such as the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games --
just as events in the Junior, Disabled, Masters and "Special" categories are.
Manistream events should be open for men and women to compete against each
other on the same basis -- just as Feminism has forces us to do in other walks
of life. What happened to the Feminist slogan: "Equal Pay for Equal Work ?"
Circumcision is genital mutilation, and should be campaigned against by
all those who are opposed to female circumcision. The fact that it involves
less mutilation than female circumcision does is counterbalanced by the fact
that male circumcision is more widespread than its female counterpart. Circumcision
is particularly abhorrent when it is practised for purely secular, non-medical
reasons. Comment: The status quo is the result of lobby-group
politics. Selfish Feminists have convinced politicians and the media of the
simple mantra "Women are Oppressed", and after that it has been a simple process
to get more and more pro-women passed, with chivalrous male politicians and
journalists conniving in this one-sided, undemocratic process, where men were
not represented by any significant lobby-group.
These should either be abolished altogether, or applied across-the-board,
including areas where women are underrepresented and Feminists have made no
move to increase women's representation (e.g. prison populations, suicide
rates, wartime death-rates, mortality rates from disease, etc.), and also
areas where women are overrepresented (e.g. primary teachers). Any such across-the-board
fairness would logically have to apply to ethnic minorities as well -- some
ethnic groups do better than the majority on these statistics, and some do
worse. Comment: Selfish women and chivalrous men ignore
the fact that Affirmative Action and quotas do have victims -- the members
of the "Bad" group (men) who miss out on the jobs, education or grants that
are subject to the quota.
The media and Government should be just as careful to avoid sexist language
that belittles men (e.g. "gunman" instead of "gunperson", "hatchet-man" instead
of "hatchet-person") as they are to avoid language that belittles women. Comment:
selfish women and chivalrous men in the media don't see anything wrong with
belittling men.
Advertising that denigrates and belittles men must be combatted vigorously.
Comment: selfish women and chivalrous men in the media don't
see anything wrong with belittling men.
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