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Everyday Misandry at The New York Times.

Written by Porky on 07 March 2009

Many people new to counter-feminist ideas may think that the anti-male views i criticize on this site are held only by a small number of radical feminist leaders. This however is not the case, and the internet is a great source of everyday misandry, where people set down beliefs they might otherwise keep well hidden.

Recently, The New York Times ran a piece by a certain Nicholas D. Kristof claiming that a large portion of the blame for the financial meltdown lies with, yes, you guessed it, that terrible thing called testosterone. Kristof cites in his comparison of the sexes a Cambridge study which studied testosterone levels in males- only males, not females- involved in stock trading and which found that higher testosterone levels were allied to not only greater success but also greater risk taking. Kristof then uses this study to claim that if there weren’t so many male traders there would be less risk taking and less economic meltdowns, though of course one could also use the study to claim there would be less profit as well, but such is not the mainstream media’s way. Porky has to wonder how one can use a study that looks at only one sex to make a comparison between the two sexes, and how would a study claiming that women are irresponsible spenders be treated if the only sex it studied was the female sex? Would it get traction at the Times? Porky thinks not.

But the subject of this post is not the article itself but rather the comments about said article posted by everyday readers, or at least as everyday as The New York Times readership gets. These comments provide an interesting insight into the views held by many people who in everyday life one would not expect to be so bigoted. They range from the merely sexist to the downright misandrist, and virtually none of them offer anything in terms of evidence or argument- its all just “I believe this” and “seems to me”. I was originally going to post the names of these sexist little people, but that seems unfair to the ones using their real names as opposed to the cowards that hide behind screen names, so I’ve omitted the names of the perpetrators of all this vile foolishness.

Here are Porky’s choice cuts…

A female reader writes…

” Thank you for stating the obvious. I work as a union electrician in Seattle and believe the 2 working environments to be similar in competitiveness and testosterone.”

Presumably she came to this conclusion after carrying out tests on her male co-workers’ testosterone levels. One also has to wonder how much time an electrician has spent on the trading floor, but as is often the case, feminist opinion does not require something as patriarchal as evidence to support it.

Our female supremacist continues…

“Women, I believe, tend to think of the common good and act accordingly.”

Again, no evidence, just a sexist stereotype and the use of “I believe” as a disclaimer. It is only her belief and so she need not give evidence. Another female reader seems to have even lower, albeit more honest, intellectual standards…

“I will always believe in the testosterone theory, it is the truth and I will not have to see a study to prove it to me, thank you.”

This from a male reader…

“Great simile about the urologist’s waiting room. Not only are they all male, but they all have anxieties about their sexual organs”

According to someone who didn’t disclose their sex …

“It seems to me that in reality men are more slaves to their emotions than women are. Women acknowledge them, get them out of the way, then deal with the practical needs of everyone. Men are more prone to do everything for ideology, no matter what”.

Writes a man who describes himself as a conservative…

“Women can inject much critical thinking in society and an institution. Left to their own devices, most many (from the context Porky assumes this character meant to write “most men”) would meltdown Wall Street, become the Taliban, or film Jackass the Movie. Is it any wonder that all three are male dominated?”

According to one female reader…

“As to women in banking, I sincerely feel very few, if any, would have pulled a Thain and wasted tons of money on redecorating her office.”

Yes, madam, we all know how much women hate interior decorating.

Yet another woman claims…

“Elevated testosterone is the single reason the world is created in the image of chronic war…”

As Porky writes this he is listening to the testosterone-laden music of Pantera and Drowning Pool, yet feels no compulsion to blow the heads off anyone or anything. Perhaps Porky needs to get his Testosterone levels checked…

From a man…

“To put it simply, the male “mentality” starts in the locker rooms in Jr. high. Unfortunately , the “Mine is bigger than yours”, mentality never changes. it is just channeled into different areas.”

A female reader writes…

“Indeed, I believe that women are responsible for the fact that there is any civilization left on the planet at all.”

“No woman gets angry with another woman and decides to kill her children, or destroy her house.”

No, madam, they just hire hitmen to kill the mothers of their daughters’ cheerleading competition.

“We are not designed for competition, we are designed for co-operation, collaboration. ”

Only if one defines “co-operation, collaboration.” as the kind of vicious infighting which has characterized the feminist movement.

Another female reader decides that hating men isn’t enough so she throws in a little racism…

“Let’s face it. There is a larger issue here and that is that the white male culture has to go. It has proven over and over to be oppressive and destructive starting with Eric the Red and moving from there.”

Porky wonders if the Times would have approved this comment for publication if the claims were about blacks and Shaka Zulu…

And this is just from the first half of the comment section, so the next time you find yourself thinking “Aw, cmon, that’s just a few loons at NOW!” Porky says, think again buddy- the woman sitting next to you on the subway, the besuited man in the cubicle next to yours, these people may hold such opinions about you and your brothers, sons, and fathers- they just wont tell you without the anonymity of the internet.

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