Monday, January 7, 2008

What we don't need.

Some days ago, adamant pro-male woman KellyMac thought it a good idea to post an anonymous story to her anti-feminist blog.

A friend of mine sent me this essay, from the Don’t Marry blog. I don’t know who wrote it. I don’t even know if it’s true.

But it certainly could be true, and I don’t doubt that this scenario happens, more often than we would like to think. Something very similar happened to the friend who sent it to me.

Of course, it turned out to be fake.

Well, it's not really copypastable. The relevant bit is the title:

"A Story that Women Will Never Write (Very, very long), Can you imagine any woman writing this?"

Followed by this line before the rest of the text that appears in the original article:

"[I wrote it as an apocryphal story. Regardless, it should be spread around quietly]"

Disgusting. As a men's movement supporter, this gets me really upset, since the last thing such a heavily scrutinized movement needs is dirty tactics that just end up making it look bad.

I encourage any men's activism bloggers reading this to protest this dishonest and manipulative measure and show that not all those in the movement sink to such lows. I also demand a public apology from KellyMac on her blog. Sorry, but a movement like this needs to be watertight in its presentation, and allowing actions like this one to go unpunished is not worth the risk.

1 comment:

KellyMac said...

I think you missed the introduction. Here, let me paste it here for you:

A friend of mine sent me this essay, from the Don’t Marry blog. I don’t know who wrote it. I don’t even know if it’s true.

But it certainly could be true, and I don’t doubt that this scenario happens, more often than we would like to think. Something very similar happened to the friend who sent it to me.

It’s really kind of long, but really worth your time. Read it, and weep.

Feminism hurts us all.