Liberals Ignore 14 Ways in Which American Men Are Shafted

I Doubt Trump will better the lives of American Men, but Liberal Democrats have been Deaf, Dumb and Blind to the Persecution of Men

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David Gottfried

Several decades ago, before the Western psyche had been discombobulated and disheveled by modernism, post modernism and scads of intellectual fads designed to make the natural and the beautiful complex, complicated and filled to the brim with the snazziest and chicest psychopathologies, the term “Battle of the Sexes,” was used in fun.   One might use the term in discussing a 1964 comedy entitled “Sex and the Single Girl,” starring Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis.  The term might be used to denote the hilarious antics on the best and first situation comedy, “I love Lucy.” (Since then, all sit coms have devolved into dreck.) 

However, nowadays the battle of the sexes is real, and it is one of the salient themes in the 2024 presidential election.

Although the “gender gap” has existed for years, now it has veritably exploded, and the headlines are all about inter-sexual warfare:   Liberals and Feminists, as usual, are shrill and chagrined about threats to abortion rights, and, in the course of inveighing against the Supreme Court and Trump, they cannot desist from bellyaching about everything and laying it on thick, protesting their alleged lack of self-esteem,  their eternal victimization and lamenting the Madonna-like stoicism and self-sacrifice of their Mothers.   (Their rants have changed:  Fifty years ago, feminists stressed their power, and they bellowed, with Helen Reddy, “Here Me Roar.”  Apparently, their sojourns into the land of men have been fraught with discord, and now, instead of roaring, they are whimpering about their pain.)

Also, for the first time in living memory, men are getting into the act.  For ages, men never complained because it was deemed unmanly to complain.  Consequently, men kept silent about the manifold manacles which hobbled male freedom and happiness.  It is regrettable that the banner of male rights has become associated with Donald Trump, whose politics, personality and utter lack of propriety seem to be as low as Lord Kelvin’s Absolute Zero, but Democratic Party politicians kowtow to feminist principles like boy ballerinas dutifully curtsying before Castrating Commissars of the Moscow ballet.

Of course, many male protestors sound like a bunch of buffoons, and some of them, such as that arch nit wit who said that Puerto Rico was just a lot of garbage floating in the ocean, might put Kamala in the White House.  Hence, I think I ought to sketch the outlines of a brief articulating why feminism is wrong and how men are aggrieved.  

Of course, feminism is not wrong in its general complaint, i.e., it is correct that women often suffer a lot.  However, feminism is extremely nettlesome and irksome because it overlooks the many ways men are also shafted.  

Consider concrete objective evidence that men, in certain spheres, are having a rougher time than women:

1)  Prisons are 93 percent male. (Federal Bureau of Prisons, https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gender.jsp)

2)  The incidence of schizophrenia is two to three times greater in males than in females. The American Journal of Psychiatry, April 1, 2006.

3)  71 percent of the homeless are male. (Glen Poole, The Telegraph, August 8, 2014)

4)  Women control more than half of all personal wealth, “Women now control more than half of US personal wealth, which 'will only increase in years to come'”, Ryan Gorman, Business Insider. Apr. 7, 2015,

5)  In 2013, 57 percent of college students were female.  

Women are charging into the professions.  More men allegedly suffer learning disabilities, and more boys are forced to take various medicines, which may be contraindicated, because of often vaguely defined and curiously diagnosed psychiatric problems.    Sometimes, what fastidious educators deem pathology is simply normal male rambunctiousness which is needlessly and harmfully medicated.   

At this rate, millions of highly educated professional women will not find men who are their intellectual equals.   I suppose they can go to bed with their cats.

6)  The status and wages of working-class men have been steadily deteriorating.   Most American politicians lied to American workers, but none lied as expansively as Democrat Bill Clinton.   In the 1992 Democratic primaries, he put on union hats and ate hoagies  (Sometime called hero sandwiches) and pretended to be Joe Ironworker and made believe that he would protect workers from cheap imports.      During that race, he also said he hadn’t made up his mind on Nafta, a treaty to facilitate importation.  After he was  in Office, he worked harder on getting Nafta passed than any other legislation that came before him.  The passage of Nafta put America’s industrial heartland, the powerhouse which hobbled Hitler, on the scrapheap of history.

7)  Black men find it harder to gain employment than black women for a reason most people don't understand:   White people often feel physically threatened by black men so they won't hire black men.   However, white people rarely feel physically threatened by black women so they will hire black women.  Liberal Democrats know none of this; or maybe they know but just don’t care.     

8) Also, Black men are trapped in what some psychiatrists may call a schizophrenogenic (defined as causing schizophrenia) double bind:   To get ahead in capitalist America, one must be an aggressive “go getter.”   However, when a black man is aggressive, white people fear fists and guns.  If a black man is not aggressive, white people will conclude that he lacks the machismo or might to earn good bucks for the firm.  He is damned no matter what he does.  Liberals are blind to all of this; all their attention is devoted to the long-suffering, gallant, black momma of their misty-eyed dreams.  (The apolitical and conservative adored her in Mammie in “Gone with the Wind,” and leftists such as Lillian Hellman wrote of her in exalted terms in “An Unfinished Woman.”) 

9) People have been talking about breast cancer for ages.  But there is almost no talk about testicular cancer, and it’s becoming less rare (And it tends to strike young men)

10)  About 58,000 men died in Vietnam.  I said men.  Not men and women.  And in 1968, when thousands of GIs lost their testicles to land mines, which were called bouncing betties, hordes of woman protested the Miss America Beauty Pageant in Atlantic City, claiming that they were persecuted.

11)  There is a strong and special affinity between a child and the opposite sex parent.  In the feminist age, this helps women and harms men.  Everywhere, I see Fathers bonding with their daughters to give their daughters the sort of professional and executive positions that they had.   Of course, Mothers have a special bond with their sons.  In the past, a mother might encourage her son to become a doctor or lawyer and earn a handsome income.  Now I have seen Mothers encourage their sons to take ballet.  There is nothing inherently wrong with ballet, but it’s quite a demotion from being a doctor or a lawyer.

12)  Women can often “wrap men around their little fingers” and this gives women special advantages in the workplace:

If a man is straight, he is bewitched by a woman's looks and gives her special concessions.

If a man is gay, he very often gives women the sort of special and unjustified attention and favors that gay men, for reasons I have yet to understand,  bestow on women.  (However, as gay men have become more liberated, I find that they are less apt to kneel and curtsey  before domineering women in the manner of queens, from an earlier time, who swooned for Bette Davis, Judy Garland etc.)  

13) The Left’s subordination of gay rights to feminist rights.  From about the time of Stonewall, until the ascent of gay marriage, there was an unwritten understanding between women’s advocates and gay advocates that there was something a little bit more radical and almost loony about the demand for gay rights.  While a woman’s right to nullify her baby in the womb was virtually sacrosanct, the idea of gay marriage was considered laughable.  

When the AIDS crisis struck, many feminists were quite complacent.  Indeed, when I argued, at a meeting of the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in New York in 1985,  for more medical research to combat AIDS,  a woman indignantly  opposed me on the grounds that medical research was bad because it conducted experiments on animals.  One gay man said that he thought my idea was implicitly anti-female, reasoning that since AIDS affected mostly men, it would be anti-female to endorse a program that would help, for the most part, men. 

In 1985, David Rothenberg, a gay artist and activist, challenged Carol Greitzer in a councilmanic race in New York City.  He argued, quite persuasively, that Greitzer had done nothing as gay men were being slaughtered  by AIDS.   Feminists were furious that gay men would not behave like obedient daughters of Bella Abzug.  (Maybe the metaphor seems strange.  I remember that France considered itself, in the days of the ancien regime, the first daughter of the Holy Roman Church – the notion that gay men should kneel to feminists reminded me of Paris kneeling before Rome.).  I remember political events in which women, wrath written on their faces, bellowed to the crowd:  “Carol Greitzer is a woman.  Need I say more.”  Yeah, bitch, you need to say a lot more to get my vote.

14) Men are losing their manhood because of large upsurges in the quantity of estrogen, and derivatives of estrogen, in the environment.  

Estrogen is a female hormone.  Estrogen and/or derivatives of estrogen are in birth control pills.  Millions of women have been consuming estrogen and excreting it in their urine. 

Increases in estrogen levels have produced, among other things, never before seen intersex fish in the Great Lakes, See https://www.livescience.com/20532-birth-control-water-pollution.html.      Male hormone levels have dropped, testosterone levels have dropped, transgenderism is more prevalent, gynecomastia (man tits) is more prevalent, and hypospadias, a grievous congenital birth defect in which the piss slit, in the penis, is situated at the base of the penis instead of the head of the penis, has become more common.   Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City was researching this; it curiously stopped its work.  

It is politically inconvenient to acknowledge this problem.  Leftists don’t want to research this problem because they consider masculinity toxic and are loathe to fight a phenomenon that is whittling away manhood.    Also, because pesticides and plastics also exacerbate this problem as some pesticides and plastics contain chemicals that reduce virility, conservatives fear to recognize this problem and will accede to agribusiness and chemical companies who are flatly against the regulation of toxic and deleterious substances. 

And this is one of the reasons I could never, ever support Trump:  We need to regulate harmful chemicals; he will reflexively rule to permit industry to drown us in toxins as he did in his first term.