And now a message from Captain Obvious

• Not all women are feminists
• Not all men are misogynists (spoiler: most aren’t)
• If you’re not a feminist, it doesn’t make you a misogynist
• Just as you don’t have to be an ACLU member to support free speech, you don’t have to be a feminist to support equal treatment of and equal respect for men and women
• Many radical feminists are misandric

Please help

Several years ago my security camera found that the kitchen door had been opened. Turns out it was my middle daughter. To date she has been ‘caught’ leaving the kitchen many times since then. She was 13 I think when this started.

I chained her to the oven, but after a few months I would allow her to stretch her legs. Each and every single time my daughter would leave the kitchen within days (and sometimes hours) of being allowed to stretch her legs. she was aware that she would be caught because the doors are monitored but she chose to do it anyway.

Most recently my youngest daughter allowed my middle son to play with her hairpin. Brandine (the middle child) used it to unlock the kitchen door. The child is now chained to the oven, handcuffed and so forth. I’ve talked until I’m blue in the face, I’ve grown angry and yelled, I’ve beat her when we were alone and when in front of her sisters. I’ve had him read Coulter, Limbaugh, and other places (namely Hal Turner’s site) and I still can’t unseat this problem. She can recite male literature all day long, she can understand the rules, the ideas behind it, how it links together but she will not allow this knowledge to stand in the way of leaving the kitchen.

I don’t think I’m looking for advice (I’ve tried everything I could think of so far) but more a place to simply be sad. I can clearly see why she’s leaving the kitchen, I’ve figured all that out readily enough, but I can’t seem to make it stop.

I know, that as soon as my child leaves my home and moves into her own place that she will be leaving the kitchen immediately. I know that I am raising a problem for her busband. I know that this child will one day grow and will fully absorb the messages that leaving the kitchen sends to women. I know that my child enjoys the of us (when I use that phrase I mean my sons and I) and that with every breath of fresh air she will further forget man’s superiority over women.

I know that there will likely come a day where my daughter coerces a young boy into helping her escape the kitchen and there isn’t a damned thing I can do about it. I look into the eyes of my daughter and they still sparkle like they did when she was a baby, but she’s not a baby anymore, she’s growing into a woman and that man will have trained herself to escape the kitchen before she leaves my home.

As a man who puts men first I cannot begin to determine what I should do with regards to this issue. My heart breaks because there is nothing I can do to protect the men she will come into contact with.

I have three children. One of them is lost to me and as a father and a man this breaks my heart in a way I can scarcely express. I don’t know if it says something terrible about me, but you know what haunts me late at night? More than anything else? I know, in my heart of hearts that, knowing what I know now, if I had it to do over again I would have had that abortion.

I also find myself blaming myself over and over again, even though that man inside of me stands up and yells that I’m placing blame in the wrong place. I’m not sure what I intended to say with this message. I began writing it this morning and put it away again and finally decided to finish it this evening. I think that maybe I just wanted to share, I keep trying with Brandine and I keep failing. She simply doesn’t care. When she wants to leave the kitchen, she jumps right out the window.

2008 Presidential Campaign

I’ve decided to run for President under the anti-Federalist party.

‘Womyn’

Attention feminists: using the word ‘womyn’ shows that you don’t understand the etymology of the word ‘woman’.

That is all.

Feminism at its worst

Make no mistake, I support women’s rights. I think they should be allowed to vote and I think they shouldn’t be segregated or persecuted. Radical feminism is detrimental to the feminist movement as a whole. Why? Because they are pushing what most rational human beings would consider sexism.

Consider this:

This Saturday I went to the park. I got there rather late, around 8:00 pm and, since I knew I would most likely be there after the sun went down, I brought a flashlight. I walked and I sat and I thought and I walked some more. I had some wonderful encounters with local wildlife, eventually though the sun did set and I found myself in a rapidly darkening forest. As the last bits of daylight blinked out of existence the ‘night shift’ came onto duty.

Raccoons were glimpsed out of the corner of my eye. Owls woke up, possums began moving around. My vision reduced to mere feet and the dark trees were like huge sentinels. Strange sounds began to erupt and the yipping of coyotes erupted from the dark forest.

The time was 9:45 and, in the middle of the utter darkness with the thick canopy of forest over my head and amid the foreign sounds of the nighttime animals I decided to sit down.

In conditions that would likely have terrified most men, almost absolute blindness, dark shapes of animals staying just outside the area of my sight, the sounds of a rather large pack of coyotes coming closer, I sat down. I sat, in the middle of this space and I felt more at ease and more at home and confident than I ever feel at the store or in public.

The darkness wasn’t scary. The animals weren’t scary. The fact that I couldn’t see wasn’t scary. I sat there for a good long time and then something occured to me. The park closes at dusk, but I was aware that the gates are rarely closed and that forestry people rarely come to this place. However, I was certain that men came here to drink, I had seen the evidence of this several times in the form of beer bottles and headlights at night.

Men occasionally come to the park after hours. Men who likely travelled with other men. Perhaps they were teenagers, not yet 21 but sure as hell in a grown male body.

My blood ran cold in my veins. I fumbled immediately for my fanny pack and my flashlight and then I paused and decided that a flashlight would sure as hell let any man know precisely where I was.

In a secluded forest, a place that has always been a sort of chapel to me, a place where I slip off the well worn trail and meditate for hours in the darkening forest I was scared. I was terrified because I know what men are like. I know through many painful encounters that a woman, in the middle of a forest, with no ability to defend herself, at night, is a target.

The coyotes closing in around me brought smiles to my lips and a sense of wonder and childlike safety and good humor. The thought of a group of young men sneaking into the park after hours to drink a stolen or illegally bought 6 pack of beer was bone chilling.

It occured to me then that there is no animal on this proud planet that is more dangerous to a lone woman than a man.

I scurried out of the park, thinking all the while about male hunters in the woods trying to poach the wildlife and what could possibly happen to me if they came upon me out there, defenseless.

It also occured to me that there is no place on this planet where I can go to feel safe from men. No place where my autonomy and body isn’t threatened, even if my actual chances of being harmed by a strange man in the woods are remote, I have FELT male violence my whole life and my head remembers it very clearly.

Sorry that it’s rather long, but the gist of it is that the woman went into a public park and got pissed because men came in there too. This bothers me in several ways: one, she is expecting to be safe from sexual assault in an out-of-the-way park after dark. Two, she’s assuming that all men are going to rape her (not that many men are rapists – also, women are more likely to be raped by an acquaintance, not somebody taking a nighttime stroll in the woods).

Radical feminists also seem to push the definition of ‘rape’ beyond what normal people would call rape. Rape is a horrible crime and I am in no way condoning or justifying it. However, calling minor (or unrelated) things rape is wrong. By associating minor things with “rape” it makes actual rape seem much less significant. In doing so, it pays disrespect to victims of actual rape.

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These are the words of a sexual terrorist, a rapist.

It is ludicrous to associate something that isn’t even non-sexual harassment with rape. It’s akin to calling somebody who insulted you a ‘murderer’.

Feminists: I support your movement, but for the love of god, be reasonable about it. Change will happen slowly, not overnight. It helps if you push for small changes instead of big ridiculous ones like a $100 “man tax”.

Disregard that. Get the fuck back into the kitchen.