Btw, given his castration complex: isn't his idea of all men having
vasectomies at 19 BIZARRE?!
Hasn't he heard of contraception that men can use to control their
fertility? Ie rubbers?
This is loony fare. What's incredibly depressing is that anyone takes
it seriously.
On 1/29/07, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I couldn't quite bear to read it either, Jen. I had a skim, and saw
> pretty much what I expected.
>
> Gender issues have been depressing me this week (I just read a piece
> on how women shouldn't play sport, because it makes them too "manly"
> and not proper obedient wives, and how rape convictions in the UK are
> one in 20 as opposed to one in three in the 1980s, and police think
> only 15 per cent get reported at all.Etc etc. And then shit like this.
> And it's 2007! Perhaps I really do have some ghost of a belief in
> progress.)
>
> I know a number of men who find this pathetic victim status that
> McCauley goes on about puzzling and insulting. They're men who might
> frighten McCauley too, since he's so on about empty machismo: they're
> rather far from his idea of feminised castrated men that are the
> result of feminism (as seems to be long working hours, inflation, and
> every other modern ill). They're men who are confident enough in
> themselves to know that their masculinity doesn't depend on the
> inferior status of women. But sometimes I fear they're a minority.
>
> There's no doubt that men have problems. Human beings have problems,
> for Christ's sake.
>
> Enjoy your dancing -
>
> Cheers
>
> A
> On 1/28/07, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > but i did not read it
> >
> > here it is - unread - turning my head aside
> >
> > The Goodluck Club
> >
>
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