Posted by
True Grit on Sunday, July 13, 2008 11:06:28 PM
I was watching Hannity and Colmes last evening and the owner of Pink Magazine was offended by “Men Working” signs in Atlanta, Georgia; because they were not “all inclusive” when it came to the gender neutral vocabulary.
She then drew a comparison to “Men Working signs” with hypothetical signs about “Jews Working” or other racially charged signs that would be unacceptable in American society.
I agree completely with that analogy and any racially explicit signs would be totally unacceptable today.
However, no one dared to mention to the Lady that racially charged signs did exist in our recent past; such as segregation signs for “colored” & “whites. Perhaps if this fact would have been pointed out on national television, feminist might reason that they have not been purposely discriminated against by society as with racism or other hate oriented emotions, but rather understand that for millenniums (before technological and social advances) in Western Cultures and others, Men were expected to provide for their Families and Wife’s needs.
This is a historical fact in the world, and “most men” showed no mallets when it came to providing for women, or their families either in the workplace or battlefield. Have we become so politically obsorbed that we must constantly revise the past?
Revisionist Feminist need to understand this history in its proper perspective, and stop using emotionalism, false comparisons, and the manipulation of guilt on men that had nothing or nothing to do with any type of discrimination in the past.
Fore most, they must stop comparing racial discrimination and even slavery too themselves as the majority of women suffrage by most men in the west deeply pales in comparison.
So in my humble opinion “Men Working Signs” is nothing more than one of the last remnants of a bygone society, and it is
worth remembering those men's sacrifices made for there families, and the society that we still enjoy even today.
We all should put into perspective, how far we have come from and where we are going, otherwise we risk loosing collectivly the gains we have made in the past.
Get a Grip, we all should be thankful we live in a country that recognizes the accomplishments of others, and strives to be better.