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A Quick Note: I'm actually not feeling as pissed off as this entry may make it seem. In reality, the following link had me snickering mightily, mostly because I didn't realize that people still hold those outdated views of women and men. I used the "bitchy" mood setting more for the feminine connotations and the irony than as a true representation of my current emotions.

You may now return to your regularly schedualed program...

So there's this guy named Kim du Toit (I'd never heard of him, either.) who writes rants and things of that nature. Anyhow, the lovely ladies at

wildwomen directed me to this article of his, on "The Pussification of the Western Male". (His words, not mine.)

And... well... Is it just me, or does this guy have issues with the female sex?

Seriously. If he didn't have issues with women, why would he insult us left and right throughout the piece? He implies that there is something horrible about femininity in general, and that many of the qualities we associate with women (such as gentleness and compassion) are loathsome in males, and that we are denying young boys their inherant masculinity by teaching the that violence is bad.

Then he writes this:

"But most of all, I do this website because I love being a man. Amongst other things, I talk about guns, self-defense, politics, beautiful women, sports, warfare, hunting, and power tools -- all the things that being a man entails."

Wow.

Do I really need to comment. (By the way, since I am interested in forms of self-defense such as karate, politics, women and power-tools, does this make me a man too? Actually, the Gender Genie seems to think I'm a guy...)

I'm not kidding... this man thinks that the beginning of the end was allowing women the right to vote.

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You know, I feel sorry for men. I really do. We have such a limited, rigid set of standards for masculinity. Women can break gender barriers with much more ease and social acceptance than their male counterparts. (Example: No one blinks when a women walks around in a suit. What happens when a man wears a dress? Outside of San Fransisco, that is.)

Anyhow, I've gotten a bit off track. I didn't actually mean to start in on the essay. Really.

I did, however, want to point you to this which blows the original article out of the water. (In my opinion, at least.)

"But du Toit’s essay is brilliant in a way he probably never intended—it’s a masterpiece of self-confirmation. His main thesis is that Western males are becoming wimps, and his essay itself proves that there is at least some truth in the thesis; never before in human history has there been so much puling and whining about such inconsequential irritations. Du Toit’s groundless blubbering is, in the end, itself a partial confirmation of his point. In fact, du Toit’s essay probably deserves to spawn a neologism: duToitification and its cognates. You become duToitified when you’ve got it so good that you lose all perspective on the world and as a result exaggerate minor unpleasantries into vexations of Biblican proportions. That is, you become an insufferable weenie."

Mr. du Toit, should you ever read this entry, I would like to point out that courage and self-reliance are not qualities only found in men, and that many "feminine" qualities should be valued just as much as their "masculine" counterparts. I agree that being a "sissy" is not a desirable trait, but to claim that women are all sissies is one of the most ignorant statements I have ever read.

As the proud owner of a pussy (Although the uterus-and-ovaries combo get on my nerves at times. I'm thinking about selling them on the Black Market.), I don't see the XX contigent gaining equal status to be the Sign of the Appocalypse that you evidently equate it with.

Then again, I'm a woman, so what do I know?