| Part One of Nine |
| Men: The Constipated Movement |
| SPINBUSTERS |
| We�re going to take this country so far to the Right, you won't even recognize it -- Richard M. Nixon Earth to Men�s Activists! Earth to Men's Activists! Shit or get offa the pot, willya? Or as they say in the Women�s Republic of Can(t)ada, �Eh?� I read the news today (oh boy). Seems we're torching the Amazon forest faster than a pyro in suicidal heat. And yah, yah, I know: the evisceration of the planet's rain-forests is all a fabrication of the Liberal Media. Maybe that smoke I smell isn't our Wheel on fire. Maybe it's the brimstone coming out our own ass. Hey, you ever have one of those days when you need to take a real healthy one, and nothing emerges but hot air? Q: Whaddaya call that? A: The Men�s Movement. The recent funding by Can(t)ada -- our friendly Sister-Matriarky to the north -- of the �Status of Women Canada� to compose a hit list of North American men�s organizations should loosen up our bowels, though. Nothing like the intent of a First World nation to scrutinize, classify as �hate criminals,� and prosecute as terrorists men�s advocates to move the ole agenda along. Speaking loosely, of course. And how kind of our Sister-Matriarky to take upon itself the burden of identifying and stamping out ALL of the WORLD�S advocates for men � not merely those Enemies of the State in Can(t)ada. Thus, men�s advocates would be well-served to review �The Misery Misandry Brings,� Robert Sides� screed against the complacency and pussyfooting of the Men�s Movement. It�s a short piece. If you�ve already read it, read it again, before Homeland Security decides it�s a Terrorist Manifesto and comes a�knockin, or the Royal Mounties make you Bubba-meat in one of their man-cages. Sides wrote the essay in 1999, but it still applies today. Unfortunately. Reviewing Sides� rant in light of recent events by the Gyneocratic Hezbollah of Can(t)ada proves educational. He points out that the typical tactics of the Men�s Movement -- lawsuits and commissions, letters and pleas and net chit-chat � are only concessions to the Beast. Sides intimates that these half-measures are not only doomed, but indeed produce only glee amongst the Western Matriarky. I don't fully agree, but it's true that most of men�s advocacy occurs on the Internet, because that�s the last forum for open expression left in our �democracy.� Society (womenandchildren plus our male �leaders�) does NOT want men�s advocacy, men�s liberation, or men�s organizations (unless they support the existing Junta). And that�s my point. The men�s rights organizations and websites that control the flow of information to activists all support the existing Junta. Is that a problem? Not if one wishes to remain a slave to the Matriarky, it isn't. Or to find a comfy corner in the New Coven. The System isn�t set up to address the issues of boys and men. It�s set up to use boys and men. And as for burning forests, well, that's just Good for Business. Eh? I expect to see an editorial on Men's News Daily any minute now, explaining how It Isn't Really Happenning -- it's actually a brush-fire in Toledo. Set by "Marxists." All five of 'em. The trouble, of course, is that North American men as a whole are too emasculated � and too addicted to females � to really Rock the Rag-Reich. And as Robert Sides infers, any activist who advocates otherwise can expect charges of �extremism� and prompt exclusion from the Movement. Suddenly the Problem becomes � ta da! and yet again! -- not feminists and their male dronettes, but other dissenting men. Marxists. Libberals. And anybody else who doesn't think like ME. And once again we are effectively divided. And once again we are conquered. And smoke rises from the hell-hole of the galaxy. Our own little Backyard Grill. |