I ran across some interesting insight into the mindset of the far-left at a web site called "Coat Hangers at Dawn". Their motto is "Following the attempts by the fundamentalist extremist religious right in South Dakota to ban contraception, abortion, sex ed and their war on everyone who disagrees with them."
Their name provides insight into the lack of respect these anti-Americans have for the rule of law. They believe that if abortion is against the rule of law, they will take the law into their own hands by grabbing a coat hanger and issue the death penalty to an inconvenient potential family member.
But what I really found interesting was the Kool-Aid they were drinking from a Bob Burnett column. Excerpt:
Nonetheless, these sad realities don't explain why American men seem so nonchalant about the Right's attack on reproductive rights. About the fact that conservatives not only want to ban abortion, but contraception and sex education. By the way, this strategy was developed and orchestrated by guys.
Here is what the Coat Hanger women said about this:
Don't get us wrong though, we have seen quite a few men stepping into the public conversation on this issue. Many men "get it" and see that this issue effects them too and the larger issues of the religious extremists who also want to control everything having to do with sex and relationships. The number of men becoming involved in fighting this in SD is becoming considerable. Every time there is some sort of public event speaking out against the religious right, more men are there each time.
BTW, We are declaring next week "Real Man Week". There are many really great men in South Dakota that treat women as equals, support their endeavors, take active roles in relationship decisions and stand up to men who try to oppress and harass women. Real men are confident enough in themselves to not feel threatened by women and don't need to oppress someone else to make themselves feel "manly".
So next week, do something nice for the real men in your life. Do something nice for the guy that always treats you as an equal. Or the guy who told the chauvenistic jerk to knock it off. Whatever the great thing they did that sets them apart from the lowest denominator of questionable men in SD, let them know you appreciate them.
Let me use an except from Star Parker’s book, Uncle Sam’s Plantation" as a response to these anti-family feminists:
In the March 4, 2002, Cornell Review, Joseph Scalia makes the point that college-age women are encouraged to have sex when they want, with whomever they want. He rejects the notion that women can have a civilizing effect on men. The men think this is a fine idea. In the old days to have sex on demand with no commitment or consequences, men had to go to a whorehouse and pay good money for it. Now the whores are giving it away for free in dormitories across America and calling it sexual freedom. Empty-headed young women with parents who apparently had no clue how to set appropriate boundaries for their daughters have been fooled by liberals and feminists into giving up the only power they ever had over men: the power to withhold sex to ensure a long term relationship through marriage and a legacy for their union in the form of a strong family unit and children. Feminism has created a legion of unpaid whores who have abandoned God and family for the bondage of heartless, soulless physical union. They have given away the farm and gotten nothing in return They have been sold a lie by leaders who want them free of the strength of a family unit, so that they can be more easily manipulated.
And I will pile on with this excerpt from a Kathleen Parker column:
When New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd asked, "Are Men Necessary?" in the title of her funny book critiquing today's gender-confused culture, I took the question to be a rhetorical play on E.B. White and James Thurber's "Is Sex Necessary?"
I wrote in response that, yes, men are necessary, if not to certain women, then certainly to children, who, despite the creative inventions of many modern mothers, seem to love their daddies.
At least they love the idea of Daddy, since so few children these days get to have a real one. A third of all American children are born to unwed mothers and half will sleep tonight in a house where their biological father does not live.
What the two Parkers are saying is that the feminists are promoting an anti-family crusade out of what they mistakenly call a women’s rights movement. Their hatred toward men has even lead some to have children without a man. Kathleen Parker explains this:
This past Sunday, the New York Times was replete with stories that answer both Dowd's question and that posed by Thurber and White. Not only are men not necessary, but neither is sex in many cases.
The cover story of the Times' Sunday Magazine, for instance, was headlined "Looking For Mr. Good Sperm" and featured women who have given up on Mr. Right and are searching instead for a good vial of sperm.
Another Times story was about "virtual visitation," which allows absent dads to stay in touch with their kids through instant messaging and webcams. A third told the plight of unwed fathers powerless to block the adoption of their babies.
Finally, the fourth was a first-person narrative by a woman who married and had a child with an incarcerated murderer, whom she later abandoned. The dad, not the baby.
I wonder if the Coat Hanger women realize that their "real men" includes incarcerated murderers. The Coat Hanger women seem to consider real men those who treat women as unpaid whores, but only if they agree equality means they don’t have a relationship with each other. Kathleen Parker ends her column with that thought:
These are sad stories that reveal symptoms of a diseased culture in which human relationships have no moral content and children are treated as accessories to adult lives. Yet, these trends are portrayed as the latest gosh-gee fashions.
A society in which women are alone, men are lonely, and children don't have fathers is nothing to celebrate. And a future world filled with fatherless children - bereft of half their identity and robbed of a father's love, discipline and authority - won't likely be a pleasant place to live.
And those who are promoting this diseased culture call themselves "progressives". They can fool themselves, but they are not fooling me. And I know many women, other than the two Parkers, who also are not fooled by these far-left extremists. There is nothing progressive about the anti-God anti-family anti-American left.
And the subset of anti-family is anti-father. And the Coat Hanger women think "real men" are those who don’t care if their child is aborted. To the Coat Hanger women, "real men" are also anti-father, because they support the killing of children that prevent fatherhood.
