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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