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flamingdem

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Sat Mar 31, 2012, 06:51 PM Mar 2012

5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women [View all]

http://www.cracked.com/article_19785_5-ways-modern-men-are-trained-to-hate-women.html?fb_ref=like

David Wong

If you're not the type to keep up with ugly, soul-killing political controversies, let me catch you up: A while back, hugely popular political commentator Rush Limbaugh lost a bunch of advertisers because he publicly called a college girl a slut and a prostitute after she suggested that health insurance plans should cover birth control. But he's paid to say outrageous things. If you really want to feel all dead inside, you need to listen to what the regular folk were saying.

For instance, on crazy political message board FreeRepublic.com, posters referred to the girl in the above-referenced story (Sandra Fluke) as a "Nasty, disease-ridden plodding uterus, an utter skank crack-ho filthy whore, a prostitute slutbag juice-receptacle" and a "Sperm-burpin' gutter slut," and said she "... is so encrusted and used, that I had to throw out my flat-panel TV because her appearance on my TV infected it with AIDS, gonorrhea and syphilis." There are many, many more worse comments collected here and here and here.

Now go to the front page of any mostly male discussion site like Reddit.com and see how many inches you can browse before finding several thousand men bemoaning how all women are gold-digging whores (7,500 upvotes) and how crazy and irrational women are (9,659 upvotes) and how horrible and gross and fat women are (4,000 upvotes). Or browse the "Men's Rights" section and see weird fantasies about alpha males defeating all the hot women who try to control them with their vaginas.

This current of white-hot rage has to come as a surprise to some of you, because we tend to think "sexism" is being dismissive toward women, or paying them lower salaries -- we don't think of it as frenzied "burn the witch!" hatred. Yet occasionally something like this Limbaugh thing will come along to prick that balloon, and out it pours. Like it's always waiting there, a millimeter below the surface.

Why? Well, you see ...

#5. We Were Told That Society Owed Us a Hot Girl

Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_19785_5-ways-modern-men-are-trained-to-hate-women.html#ixzz1qjnGrSog

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Using the magazine that bases it's content on Maxim as a source ? slampoet Mar 2012 #1
I considered the source but flamingdem Mar 2012 #2
So you disagree with Wong and you think 9/11 was an inside job ? PoliticAverse Mar 2012 #5
I'm not interested in conspiracy theories much flamingdem Mar 2012 #7
This was posted on here a week ago. undeterred Mar 2012 #3
Do you disagree with the examples flamingdem Mar 2012 #4
I agree that there is a rising male misogyny and I am just so weary of it. undeterred Mar 2012 #6
Thank you. I notice it as well and am dumbfounded considering I went through the flamingdem Mar 2012 #8
My son is almost 21 and I've been continually amazed liberalhistorian Mar 2012 #9
Thanks for confirming that, I really wonder what's at the root of this flamingdem Mar 2012 #11
What's especially disturbing is that younger women often don't liberalhistorian Mar 2012 #12
Wow, I'm not much around that kind of behavior flamingdem Mar 2012 #15
so what do they do instead... yell out, ya, i am a slut. seabeyond Mar 2012 #16
found this on the slut issue flamingdem Mar 2012 #20
pretty amazing huh. the thing, we now let go of not allowing hostile work environment. seabeyond Mar 2012 #21
Did a regulation change? flamingdem Mar 2012 #25
I meant a legal change flamingdem Mar 2012 #26
general environment. nt seabeyond Mar 2012 #28
"You have no sense of humor" is also used by everyone who tells sexist jokes Zalatix Mar 2012 #31
The younger women do not understand what is at stake. undeterred Mar 2012 #29
I disagree with the examples Major Nikon Mar 2012 #30
i had issues with the article first thread. here is a counter. started a thread seabeyond Mar 2012 #10
What a fabulous analysis! flamingdem Mar 2012 #13
i thought it pretty kick ass, myself. the first time i read this seabeyond Mar 2012 #14
Not to "essentialize" flamingdem Mar 2012 #17
except seabeyond Mar 2012 #24
Thank you Tobin S. Mar 2012 #18
to be fair. more men than i thought were bothered the first thread thru. seabeyond Mar 2012 #22
I thought it was funny (nt) varelse Mar 2012 #19
I got the memo about those training sessions, MineralMan Mar 2012 #23
I think the article does a pretty good job of explaining why some men think the way they do. dawg Mar 2012 #27
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