THE END OF MEN, HOW WOMEN ARE TAKING CONTROL – OF EVERYTHING?

A response to the July/August 2010 issue of The Atlantic’s flagship article, approved by the editor COWARD James Bennet:

THE END OF MEN, HOW WOMEN ARE TAKING CONTROL – OF EVERYTHING

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“How do you write women so well?

I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability”.

So goes the lines from the movie As Good As It Gets, the final line delivered flawlessly by Jack Nicolson who is asked about his writing by a receptionist at his publisher’s office.

Why do you think Jack Nicolson’s words get both a laugh and furrowed brow?
Because largely, few men will disagree with this, but even fewer will say it out loud.

Seriously, how many women do you know that have claimed responsibility for bad behavior, owned up to it, apologized, and asked for forgiveness, even in the face of obvious misconduct?

And yes, I know many men who are accountable for bad behavior, make amends and move forward, including brothers, clients, and friends and get this; there are even stories and legends of men in the world taking accountability, which may be fiction to the contributors of this Atlantic issue. In fact, it’s part of what I do in my work assisting men while in the middle of relationship disasters, to coach them on what accountability looks like.

In the July/August issue of The Atlantic, every attempt is made to make men unaccountable for their own social status by inflicting upon men the infamous female attribute of unaccountability.

Sorry ladies, men will not blame you if they experience demise, as some of you do to men. Men will accept accountability for their own failure and success and will not go to pathetic attempts to claim oppression or take a bath in the stinging iced waters of victimhood. Proudly, we men reserve the right to be answerable for our own results. Imagine that?

Actually, if I notice the subtext in this story, it get’s my attention with a terrible insult towards women, that woman can only be successful and rise of to the top at the expense of men. Really? Are you sure you really want to be saying that? You’re actually saying that women cannot be successful based on merit, that it must happen in Hitler’s jungle where the weak must be mowed down by the strong. It’s no wonder The Atlantic makes an enemy of men in their adversarial pursuits, but it’s just not necessary.

Of the women I know who have been successful in their fields, it has not been because they oppressed men, it’s been because they were just damn good at what they did, better in some cases than both other women and other men, men had nothing to do with it one way or the other. Merit triumphs, not the scapegoat downfall of a gender. For this reason, I see no way, none at all in which women will even slightly benefit or be genuinely empowered by the condescension of this insulting article to women, not just men.

The flagship article of the magazine is titled THE END OF MEN, HOW WOMEN ARE TAKING CONTROL – OF EVERYTHING. Generalizations hit you like a punch in the face just by the selection of that grade school headline. But you are set up by this headline by the sour and distasteful presentation that is to come, like the feeling of vomit making its way up the throat.

It is written by the staggeringly pious and loosely investigated positions presented by Hanna Rosin, the lesser of the offenders, with the blessing of the male apologist editor James Bennet, and the devolved and hateful sidebar by Pamela Paul who tries terribly to temper her contempt for all men, gay and straight combined.

Women like this are becoming the very thing they despise, chauvinistic, but don’t see it because of the license they take in claiming to be the oppressed, and so they oppress. It stinks of entitled victimhood. Paul is a shame and a stain on the many women who have succeeded on their own terms and deserve respect and homage for that and that alone, not because they are women.

This story represents a trio of treacherous points of view calculated to castrate, depower and demonize every man that either reads it or doesn’t read it as they conspire to collapse an equally integral and priceless contribution to human society along with women, men. There is an ancient energy of the biblical Delilah infused throughout the entire magazine because of this trio’s objective to rob men and manhood of their authentic power and natural place as a key contributor to the human experience.

I intend to discipline these three stooges of Bennet, Rosin and Paul with more than just a “NUYK! NYUK! NYUK!”

Advertisers in this issue have now been blemished with their collaboration with these social criminals and as such should be boycotted.

Let me be clear about something to avoid confusion. I love women, there are many women in my life that...

Part two coming soon...