MAN vs. Person, and Whining

  • I recently spoke about “21st Century Masculinity” to a group of young men at a local private high school. It was an experience I am thankful for, and the kids seemed to enjoy it as well. My write up of my presentation and a bit of the discussion can be found at AlternativeRight.com. One of the key points I wanted to get across is that there’s a difference between being a man and being a person.

    MAN vs. “Person“

    Some female writer seems to be offended (I’m shocked) by the possibility that masculinity might not be all about women, and has decided that I am unqualified to write about manhood.

    While I am not usually one to compare myself to lesbians, if latent and overt lesbians had been considered unqualified to write about the experience of womanhood and the needs of women, feminism probably wouldn’t have happened (or made much progress at all). I have to wonder if anyone would even hire female writers…because in the majority of truly Traditional societies, no one took the opinions of offended women seriously.

    I sometimes like to think of myself as the opposite of a lesbian feminist separatist. I’m not a separatist (the majority of my friends are straight men and I hold up the Traditional family as the ideal and oppose same-sex marriage for that reason), and I’m anti-feminist (I support Traditional sex roles for males and females). I’m also not trying to “recruit” straight men or guide them away from women, as the lady blogger seems to imply. Quite the opposite.

    It is kind of funny, though that “Kidist Paulos Asrat” is taking sides with the publisher of White News Now.com. Strange times make strange bedfellows, I guess…

    Because I actually do have a penis and have to function in heterosexual male social groups, I feel comfortable in saying I know more about manhood than she does. So maybe she should stop writing about manhood.

    What is Whining?

    The charge of “whining” comes up a lot, not so much with my writing specifically as when any man, especially a white man, writes about any injustices or skewed perceptions of men or manhood. So I figured I’d give that subject a treatment over at The Spearhead.

    http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/virtus/man-vs.-person/

    May 4th, 2010 | Jack Donovan | Comments Off |

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