MACCHIETTO: In what ways did men have an equivalent experience to
blacks or to slaves?
FARRELL: Blacks were forced, via slavery, to risk their lives in cotton
fields so that whites might benefit economically while blacks died
prematurely. Men were forced, via the draft, to risk their lives on
battlefields so that everyone else might benefit economically while men
died prematurely. Both slaves and men died to make the world safe for
freedom--someone else's.
Slaves had their own children involuntarily taken away form them; men
have their own children involuntarily taken away from them. To this day
we still tell women they have the right to children and tell men they
have to fight for children.
Blacks were forced, via slavery, into society's most- hazardous jobs;
men are forced, via socialization, into society's most-hazardous jobs.
Both slaves and men used to make up almost 100% of the "death
professions." Men still do.
When slaves gave up their seats for whites, we called it subservience;
when men give up their seats for women, we call it politeness.
Similarly, we called it a symbol of subservience when slaves stood up
as their master entered a room; but a symbol of politeness when men
stand up as a woman enters.
Blacks are more likely than whites to be homeless; men are more likely
than women to be homeless. Blacks are more likely than whites to be in
prison; men are about 20 times as likely as women to be in prison.
Blacks die 6 years earlier than whites; men die 7 years earlier than
women. Blacks are less likely than whites to attend college or graduate
from college. Men are less likely than women to attend college (46% vs.
54%) or graduate from college.
Apartheid forced blacks to mine diamonds for whites; socialization
expected men to work in different mines to pay for diamonds for women.
Nowhere in history has there been a ruling class working to afford
diamonds they could give to a group that could get away with calling
themselves the oppressed (even as they accepted the diamonds).
Blacks are more likely than whites to volunteer for war in the hopes of
earning money and gaining skills; men are more likely than women to
volunteer for war for the same reasons. Blacks are more likely than
whites to subject themselves to the child abuse of boxing and football
in the hopes of earning money, respect, and love; men are more likely
than women to subject themselves to the child abuse of boxing and
football, with the same hopes.
It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group
that cast more than 50% of the vote got away with calling itself the
victim. Or an example of an oppressed group which chooses to vote for
their "oppressors" more than it chooses to have its own members take
responsibility for running. Women are the only minority group that is a
majority, the only group that calls itself "oppressed" that is able to
control who is elected to every office in virtually every community in
the country. Power is not in who holds the office, power is in who
chooses who holds the office. Blacks, Irish, and Jews never had more
than 50% of America's vote.
Women are the only "oppressed" group to share the same parents as the
"oppressor;" to be born into the middle-class and upper-class as
frequently as the "oppressor;" to own more of the culture's luxury
items than the "oppressor;" the only "oppressed" group whose "unpaid
labor" enables them to buy most of the fifty billion dollars' worth of
cosmetics sold each year; the only "oppressed" group that spends more
on high-fashion, brand name clothing than their "oppressors;" the only
"oppressed" group that watches more TV during every time category than
their "oppressors."
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