Many feminists make it crystal clear that their view of men falls somewhere between cockroaches and rats. I was wondering then if there were in fact any men at all, amongst all those rapists and wife-beaters, that they looked up to.
What put this idea in my mind was this article about Angelina Jolie’s new film, ‘Unbroken’ about war hero and athlete, the recently deceased, Louis Zamperini … Angelina being of course quite an icon for many within the feminist movement.
Do feminists, for example, revere the efforts of a man like Ian Frazer, the inventor of a ground-breaking vaccine for cervical cancer? So I googled on “do feminists have male heroes”, but my net came up almost empty. There were just a couple of questions asked on Yahoo which attracted very few responses:
http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080422012628AA1yjIs
In this discussion ‘Dee’ responded thus:
Generally feminists don’t like heroes, because a hero is a big, strong, masculine, courageous, male warrior. Like Hercules or Achilles, or Perseus, or Conan the Barbarian.
And most feminists really seem to hate strong, powerful, masculine men. (Especially the radical feminists, who want to make all men more like women, and make all women more like men. That is, they want to erase all the natural and wonderful differences between the sexes. How boring.)
… I outgrew my youthful feminist idealism years ago, when I realized how ridiculous “mainstream” feminism was becoming. And now it’s even worse, it has become downright man-hating nonsense that is destructive to men and women alike. But the good news is that when anything becomes that absurd, then inevitably the pendulum will start to swing back in the other direction, there will be a growing backlash against the radical extremes. And the backlash against feminism is well underway, and getting bigger every year.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100315103356AAMxWXw (nil responses to this thread!)
Oh, and I did come across this post in some pro-feminist guy’s blog.
See also:
Man, 21, drowns to death trying to save teenage girl – one hour after being baptized in the same lake (27 August 2024)
On 13 April 2024 in Sydney, Australia, some guy went crazy in a shopping centre killing and wounding many people. Amongst innumerable article re: how & why the gov’t should get more serious about violent men, there were a couple of articles about how other men reacted on the day …
Hero dad jumps into action to save family at Bondi Junction Westfield (13 April 2024), ‘Never seen so much blood’: Bondi Rescue star caught up in stabbing horror (14 April 2024) and ‘Bloody amazing’: Dad’s heartbreaking act for children in Bondi massacre (14 April 2024)
Touching moment rugby player carries terminally-ill teammate in marathon (15 May 2023)
Qantas video of off-duty pilot doing selfless act goes viral (18 October 2022)
What makes people willing to risk their lives to save others? (12 July 2022)
US ‘hero’ teen saves three girls and police officer after car plunges into river (6 July 2022)
CCTV footage captures trainee nurse saving child at Brisbane hospital (11 March 2022)
Storm prompts Uber driver to get teen passenger a hotel room, offered new job (10 January 2022)
High school pass dad turns scientist to make medicine at home for dying son (25 November 2021)
Heroic neighbour stabbed trying to save 93-year-old in Palm Beach (16 November 2021) Video
Lifeguards Escort 95-Year-Old Who Couldn’t Walk to Beach and Back Every Day of Her Vacation (15 November 2021)
Three killed by train after man heroically tried to pull women from stuck car (13 November 2021)
Dying Wish of Terminally Ill Boy, 6, Is to See Bikers Ride Past His House; 15,000 Show Up (theepochtimes.com) (9 August 2021)
North Lakes crash: Mystery sparkie found after car accident | The Courier Mail (21 May 2021)
Watch what happens when a guy tries to tell a woman that there’s a problem with her car (25 February 2021) Video
Hero Cranbourne North dad Russell Irwin bashed by armed thugs would intervene again (9 February 2021) Australia
Dale Schroeder (1919-2005)
A 97 year-old World War II veteran jumped out of a plane to recreate his D-Day parachute drop (6 June 2019) Video
The Carnegie Hero Fund. Something seems to be wrong here – doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of feminist recipients. Surely there should be a gender quota.
Stranger gives up first class seat to mother travelling with sick daughter (9 December 2018)
Student union leader vows to paint over First World War mural of ‘white men’ (25 October 2018)
‘If we don’t we’ll die’: Inside the most heroic story of September 11 (22 July 2018)
Woman saved from Las Vegas shooting by Marine she met just hours earlier (4 October 2017)
I Think ‘Dunkirk’ Was Mediocre at Best, and It’s Not Because I’m Some Naive Woman Who Doesn’t Get It (28 July 2017)
The link to this article read “Hero motorists pull children from sinking car” (2 May 2017) USA. As is usually the case, if it’s a good news story about men then gender is not specified. If the reported incident had reflected poorly on men, you can bet that the writer/editor would have used “men” rather than “motorists”.
California Man Cares for Ailing 89-Year-Old Neighbor and Best Friend in Her Final Days: ‘Kindness Heals’ (24 January 2017)
Melbourne man pens tribute to taxi driver ‘hero’ (23 January 2017) Australia
These four Italian policemen cleverly disguised their toxic masculinity (10 August 2016)
Teen With Cerebral Palsy Walks For First Time To Get Diploma (1 June 2016)
Young man helps elderly lady across the road (10 March 2016) Video
Good Samaritan’s final good deed hasn’t gone unnoticed (1 March 2016)
San Bernardino hero’s selfless last act (6 December 2015) USA
The Beauty of Men, by Mark Dent (16 November 2015)
When A Man Couldn’t Feed Himself At McDonald’s An Employee Did The Most Awesome Thing (24 September 2015)
‘If We Left, They Wouldn’t Have Nobody’ (21 November 2014)
Sydney siege: Hero Lindt cafe manager Tori Johnson ‘was an amazing person, a selfless person’ says former boss (16 December 2014) And yet just a couple of days earlier the same pro-feminist news outlet published a sexist hit-piece entitled ‘Proof that men are bigger idiots than women‘ lampooning men for their propensity to take dangerous risks.
When the world goes to hell, it’s men who die to save others (11 September 2014) Good post and I liked this reader’s response to another comment that was posted by a feminist:
“Terrorist attacks are mostly done by men. I don’t mean to counter your post, I just think it is incomplete” (‘Peacock’)
“Honestly – this kind of myopia leaves me speechless. Of course most really, really bad stuff is done by men. Most really really good stuff is done by men as well.
For one simple reason – men are more exceptional then women. In any given population you will find far more male CEOs, Nobel Prize winners, breakthrough scientists, great leaders, sublime artists then you will women – about 8 times more in fact.
You will also find more male criminals, homeless, clinical imbeciles, despots than women – about 8 times more in fact.
For one very simple reason – eggs are more valuable than sperm. Nature needs us to evolve so it experiments, pushes the envelope of what it means to be human. And you don’t experiment with the most valuable part of your population – young fertile women – which of course means women in general.
Women, as a group, cluster much more around the average then men do, as a group.
This doesn’t mean that women are incapable of reaching the top, or the bottom, just that there will always be fewer of them there, compared to men.
And yet feminism continues to take the worst of men and use them to characterize all men, and take the best of women and use them to characterize all women. And use the fact that there isn’t a 50-50 split of men / women in EVERYTHING to justify it.
So men are demonized and many women are instructed to take paths they are not best suited for. End result; men disengaging and women increasingly relying on psychiatric drugs and other self destructive self medication to get by.
The sad thing is – you know who used to control the really bad men and help the ones at the bottom? The vast mass of balanced, reasonable, fair and decent men in the middle. The very men feminism has attacked because it knew these men were too good natured to truly fight back.
And they haven’t. Instead they are walking away. You might want to give that some consideration before you join the chorus implying that all men are as bad as the worst of men. And please don’t try to deny this was the implication of your post – leaving me speechless is one thing – don’t make me think you are feeble minded as well. I have a mother, wife and daughter whom I love very much but I know they tend towards plausible deniability when they think they can get away with it.. But they at least try to control it and see the men in their lives for what they are rather than what the herd tells them to think.
So should you.” (‘Cadders’)
Kevin Vickers saved many lives by quickly taking down a gunman in the Canadian parliament building. Everyone would be dead if he had waited for a feminist to intervene. But masculinity is toxic … until society needs someone to step up. (24 October 2014)
How the Nobel Prize has favoured white western men for more than 100 years (8 October 2014)
Feminism has slain our protectors (12 September 2014)
Fierce compassion: Why men’s compassion is unappreciated (11 September 2014)
General Douglas MacArthur’s speech on “Duty, honour, country”
Ambulance officer pays parking fine for grieving daughter
100% of firefighters who died were male
http://www.cotwa.info/2013/04/a-broken-man-goes-boston-marathon-and.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-this-really-happening-waitress-gets-the-surprise-of-her-life/
http://www.channel5.com/shows/the-limbless-mountaineer/episodes/the-limbless-mountaineer
http://www.anzacs.net/Simpson.htm
http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminist-violence/the-misandry-behind-misogyny/
What would happen if no men showed up for work today? (17 September 2013)
On Friday, the world lost its oldest Holocaust survivor #IsraelKristal.This video honors 1 of the great men who helped save Jews like Israel pic.twitter.com/cHoUUm8Lce
— Adelle Nazarian (@AdelleNaz) August 13, 2017
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How men are portrayed … Haw Haw Haw! The jokes on us
How tragic that feminists ignore their role in demonising men