Man Up

"It’s the women in,...life who are the real terrors, old and young, lovable or intimidating. Most,...male friends are feathery lightweights by comparison to the females of the species,...

I have never believed the feminist myth of the weak pushover woman. I don’t think such women exist; if they do, I haven’t met them. Feminists like Germaine Greer or Betty Friedan are much more like,...Lady Macbeth or the Roman Empress Livia, the dragon lady who poisoned most of her younger relatives to clear the path for her chosen heir to Caesar Augustus. In every dynastic kingdom there are said to be such women.

There certainly are women who adopt the 'beach bunny' disguise when it suits them, just as there are men who pretend to be helpless young children. Until they decide to grow up. Even infants aren’t goo-goo cute all the time. Ever heard of the terrible twos? Newborn babies can be as imperious as any tyrant.

So the whole 'woman as victim' basis of feminist myth has always seemed hard to believe. Not that there aren’t plenty of female victims, just as there are male victims. Life can be very painful — emotionally, physically, and socially. Malicious and abusive people really do exist. After all, political correctness is itself a form of bullying. PC is our version of medieval witch-hunting, as the recent headlines make very clear.

Women are abused in some families, just as children and men are. Women also abuse other women — just as men sometimes do. Feminists often seem to be women who suffer from depression, and who have taught themselves to be in a constant state of high anger. Lesbian couples sometimes have a history of severe abuse. Which gender abuses more often, or with more traumatic effect? I don’t know. But I don’t think human biology has turned any of us into tender saplings that bend or break at the merest breath of a spring breeze."

-- James Lewis, acknowledging The Macho Response in all of us - while calling "bullshit" on feminism's claims - for Pajamas Media.