Pigs, jackasses, dogs; all names women call men. “Feminism” has become little more than bigotry with boobs. Feminists and the women who follow them have managed to equate men with the worst kinds of labels, depersonalizing and dehumanizing them in preparation for the abuse the feminists wish to heap upon them. It is everywhere, from Hallmark cards to movies. J.C. Penney’s gets my personal stamp of disapproval. Let’s face it Madison Avenue, my home will not explode, my child will not starve if I leave the husband in charge of the baby while I attend your millionth “One Day Only” sale. H&R Block is another one. They aired one during the Superbowl just to be sure the message, “Stupid husband, thoughts are for wives,” got across. Man-bashing has come to be seen as something that men have coming to them, it’s no longer even questioned.

"All men are rapists," is an outrage. It is blatant slander and should not be tolerated. Men get raped too, and all too often do not receive the treatment a woman would have received. In a lot of areas women have become the oppressors, and in the process, everything they scorn in men. 'You’re on the Pill, right?’ the man asks. ‘Of course,’ the woman says, lying. How can we demand the reproductive freedom if we won’t allow men the same? How many men have been made to pay ransom to a woman who lied about her use of contraception? Sexuality has come to be seen as a weapon with which to whip men into their place, or at the very least a tool to leverage what the woman wants. In a relationship the sex is the first thing to go when the man “misbehaves.” Guys, when was the last time you got your wife to do something by withholding sex?

Women feign outrage. The truth is we see guys as sex objects too. Ever heard of Chippendale's? And on the subject of adult entertainment can we please stop acting like the strippers are somehow degraded. They leave with money in their pockets and the men leave horny, who is really being taken advantage of here? Men don’t exploit women. Women exploit men. Women expect way too much for way too little effort. Women want to shake the ass and get the job and then can’t understand why they make less than men. Could it be that actual effort is worth more than ass shaking in the business world? But then we didn’t want to do the real work anyway, I don’t think. We wanted the power lunches and the cocktail parties not the 5am commutes that it actually takes to get promotions. If we really want equality that means half of all the bad stuff too. Half of all the trash collecting jobs, half of all the risky, screwed up jobs we call men to do. Half of all those who die on the job should be women. What’s that? Gloria Steinem didn’t mention that? Well, that’s what real equality would mean, equal responsibility and risk as what men have, as well as the rights.

Women want all the privileges men don’t get. Women are not required to register for selective service. It is our choice to serve in the military or not even during war time. It was not eight million women who died in World War I. Women are the first off the boat and the last to give up our seat. We are not expected to ask for the date, much less pay for it even though we have jobs, too. The dates, the ring, the alimony, all of it falls to the man to pay. Don’t get me wrong. Equality and legal rights are important if we are to be a civilized society. However, women have a protest sign in one hand demanding equality while the other hand is busy pilfering men’s wallets. The current trend of using men as piñatas has to stop. Men and women are different. That’s it. There’s nothing any of us can do about it except learn to cut each other some slack.

Feminists have labeled men as the reason for society’s ills. They blame some conspiratorial “patriarchy” trying to crush the poor, innocent females. It’s not like that. Women are not so innocent. Women are just as competitive and violent as men; Thatcher packed the British military with nuclear subs carrying atomic missiles. Women participate in all the domestic violence that men do. Often women are even worse tyrants in the home than men with their every mood ruling the entire family’s life. When women do commit acts of domestic violence men are less likely to be able to obtain help. Not only is there ridicule and isolation, but because of the system wide preference for women there are very few shelters which help men. There just isn’t funding for it. There are no crisis lines for men, no support groups, no victim advocacy groups for male victims of domestic abuse. Women stalk as often as men, and actually commit the majority of child killings in America. Women also don’t mind using the legal system in order to abuse the men in their lives. Use of restraining orders and custody agreements has become institutionalized abuse at this point. The chances of a man getting custody, or even unblocked visitation are very small. Yet, all of this seems to be ignored, even encouraged. It’s rarely seen as out of line at all for a woman to slap a man yet have it the other way around and somebody is spending the night in the pokey. Do women realize how much that one charge changes a man’s life? One woman, one lie is enough to put a man in jail, make him lose his job, his dignity, his time, his money, and never mind what actually happens to him while in the jail. Try it the other way around and see how quickly the police rush out to rescue the man from the “little woman.”

Women are not somehow better than men. We are good at some things and bad at others just like men. There was not some fantastic “before time” where matriarchies ruled the world and all was well. It’s a feminist myth. And yet another way to blame everyone but ourselves for whatever we feel is wrong. The women who are preaching this crap are the last group who need to be preaching. These are middle-class, white, American women, like Catharine MacKinnon who are among the most pampered classes on earth. If anyone is exploiting women it is the feminists. They are no better than the men they scorn. They seek to tell us how to dress what to wear or not wear, how much makeup and beauty products we shouldn’t be using, what is an acceptable representation of our sex, all to further their political agenda. An agenda which seems to be aimed at making women see themselves as victims. With friends like that we women don’t need enemies. Women don’t need special protection from men and I can’t think of anything more disrespectful or insulting than acting like we do.

Women are not only just as violent as men but women trigger violence in men. Every tale of knights and princesses betrays the violence women encourage. Men of course respond by slaying whatever the fair lady has labeled “dragon” because sex is the reward for slaughter. Ever watch ducks? I have. My granddad kept ducks. Female ducks do something I have only seen one other place. The female duck will go over and antagonize another male other than her mate. Then run back to her mate squawking while looking back at the angry enemy as if to say, “Honey, are you going let him talk about me like that?” The other place I have seen this is of course out at clubs where the fight almost inevitably ends in the male going to jail, never the egotistical and manipulative female who provoked the entire skirmish.

The new cry of feminism should be partners not profits. Everyone deserves to be protected from stoning and forced marriages and unfair persecution, not just women. We are swinging the pendulum too far in the other direction. We are robbing entire generations of men of the experience of masculinity being a positive thing. I want a truce in the War of the Sexes. We are people. We are not our sex organs, even though we may be led by them at times. We need each other. We are not two separate tribes as a handful of very angry, hairy women would have us believe. I want sexuality to be seen as a part of being human, not a weapon or a tool. I want anyone slapping another to be unacceptable. I want judges to be totally open to the idea of custody going to the father. Maybe Camille Paglia can write the treaty for us.