Trump’s masculinity

Progressive women in America have been hoping that men would become more respectful, more loving, more responsible, more mature. With the election of Trump, progressive women feel they have been defeated, that Trump is a step backward.

For years women have wanted to earn more money and to attain more power. As they succeeded, they became more confident. They also became arrogant. Thus the term “badass women”.

With Trump many men have found a “badass man”. An arrogant man.

He is really a bully, a wimp and immature. But the majority of men who voted for him do not have the common sense to see him that way.

Many American men see their loss of, or no hope for, a comfortable secure place in the world to be a result of America’s institutions focusing on women while neglecting men. Men do not feel free. They sense that in women’s fight to claim freedom there has not been a creation of equality but a shift of respectability and influence from men to women.

Women ask, what about all those horrible things Trump has done to women? Well, what about the female leaders in our colleges talking about a culture of rape, men as potential rapists, all those privileged white men, and for old timers, the Super Bowl lie?

If men regain the confidence and success that they had, somebody like Trump will not be elected. He will be hooted out of the public eye for being unmanly, for not considering it “beneath a man” to take advantage of women.

Trump will do nothing for America’s struggling men. Maybe he will make things worse for women.

Men will feel betrayed. Women already feel a sense of unjust “poetic justice”.

The President Speaks: September 11

It’s our 23rd anniversary of September 11. I stand on this boat looking into the magnificent skyline of the most dynamic and creative city in the world.

From the ashes of terror a wonderful building has risen. It is a monument to freedom, not just for those who died here but for those who get to look at it, and most especially for those who work in it.

America could easiy have built a fortress of mistrust, ill will and arrogance. Thanks to the cosmoplitan vision of New Yorkers, we have a building which oozes confidence and lightness, inviting one to marvel from a distance or to linger outside for hours and feel relaxed.

When I strolled the grounds today I wondered what the deceased would think seeing a free-flowing garden filled with people who have no fear.

I was assured by several of the families that though nobody can know what the victims would think or feel, the families are pleased that the grounds are vibrant and free, that the interior of the building brings one’s spirit to life and that the building’s owner and manager are determined not to have cameras recording everyone and police intimidating everyone.

There’s an inscription in the lobby. It reads We are Americans. We will not live in fear. It disappoints me that the rest of the country does not feel this way.

I dearly wish my countrymen refused to live in fear. I wish too that my countrymen lusted for freedom. I wish my countrymen hated having police, cameras and security guards everywhere.

We need to think about what 9-11 means. It was an attempt to make Americans live in fear. The terrorists knew that the Justice Department would attempt to limit civil liberties and that most people would accept the limitation.

The terrorists were correct. We are afraid. We have no problem living in a police state.

I wish you, my fellow Americans, would become arrogant and belligerent, demanding that the Patriot Act be repealed. I long for 300,000 people marching loudly on Washington for an end to our police state. It would show that all your concern for the victims of 9-11 and your claims about America’s greatness are more than the puffery they have been.

We ceased to be great with the passage of the Patriot Act and the invasion of Iraq. We stopped being great as a government and as a people.

That is why I speak to you today – to inspire you like this skyline and this building inspire me.

This skyline and this building can propel our nation back to greatness, to rise from the ashes of cowardice, conformity, gullibility and the betrayal of our Founding Fathers to be a fearless, intelligent, magnificent people.

This new building I look toward does not lose its appeal when you see it up close or enter. It’s appeal increases. This is rare for buildings.

This building was not constructed to be only a photo-piece. The intention was that the building be substantial, that it have soul, that humans in it and outside it feel vibrant, beautiful, proud, confident; that they increase the size of their soul here, that they begin to feel free and freely speak with accuracy and with meaning.

There is a lightness here that we Americans desperately need. But you have to ask yourselves how badly you want your souls back.

Would you rather risk a violent death because you trusted yourselves and others and felt beautiful, or do you want to continue to live the metaphoric death we’ve been living since October of 2001?

The inscription in the lobby – it does not ignore the potential of evil. It is saying that police states make people live in fear so this building will not be like a war zone. It is also saying we know what could happen but we will take our chances.

It is time for you to stop living in fear, to expect police to do their job of protecting you without assuming you are a criminal.

Rise up my countrymen. I ache to lead a great people.

The President Speaks: Sexual assault awareness month

This evening I would like to address the nation regarding one of our most frightening problems. The problem is rape.

I know this is a sensitive topic for almost every woman. Women fear to walk alone at night or to be in a park alone in daylight.

A lot of people wonder why so many men rape. To some people rape is an example of the violence of Capitalism manifesting itself in our shopping areas and neighborhoods.

Other say that men are over-stimulated by pornography and sex in the media. Because they cannot realistically live a fantasy, their rage creates nightmares for women.

Another point of view is that since men are psychologically weaker than women, men are more likely to become psychotic or feel powerless in our increasingly alienating society. Rape makes rapers feel powerful.

This is where I want to take off from.

Men, generally do not feel powerful. There is nothing for millions of young men to do. Most of our talk of empowerment is intended for females.

There is no encouragement for boys and men to feel empowered, that is, powerful and confident. Boys are preached at to not disrespect girls, not to treat them as sex objects.

Yet girls are not reprimanded for the macho behavior so many girls exhibit. Girls are told they can be as sexual as they want at whatever age they want.

Girls are never told to dress modestly to prevent boys from becoming aroused and then aggressive. They are not told to be modest so boys have respect toward women and female sexuality.

Boys are told boys are the problem. Boys are told that by nature they do not, but ought to, respect women and girls.

Since the 1980s men at work and in college have been told they are potential rapists. Well-educated influential and powerful women preach about a culture of rape.

Preaching about a culture of rape breeds fear. Women who were cautious become terrified. Women who loved to go places alone stop going.

The women who feel the most empowered in America today are those who preach this culture of rape. If there had been no feminism,, they would have built a career talking about an epidemic of burglaries or the need for a huge militrary to fight terrorists.

Their lust to make others afraid has been successful. They’ve made young women afraid to trust men, but to depend on feminists. They have established laws that a man can be accused of rape or harrassment without evidence.

Men fear being charged with a sex crime they did not committ. Men are ashamed to smile at a woman or appear confident around women.

What used to be an expression of good will becomes a sexual advance. What used to be an act of courage is no longer considered the first step in a possible romance, but something that violates a woman’s privacy. That is why men feel disempowered and weak.

It is not surprising that rape is prevalent. The revenge that feminists seek on men is reciprocated by rapists seeking revenge on women.

I want my listeners to think for a moment. Suppose there is a frustrated angry man that is eager to lash out at a woman.

Suppose he hates what is boiling in him. Suppose he decides, “I need help.”

He wants to go to a counselor to talk about his sick desire. If he approaches a counselor, the counselor will call the police.

The police will arrest him. He will have a global positioning chip implanted in him. His photograph and name will be posted on the web.

He will be known all over the nation as a potential rapist. What should be praised as an act of common sense, courage and wisdom is turned against the man. Instead of moving forward he is forced backwards.

It is important if we want rape to end, to allow men to have more power. Work offers few opportunities to be powerful or feel powerful.

The place for men to feel powerful is in the home. The behavior of children, especially sons, must become the responsibility of the father.

But fathers are in a dilemma. They are told there is violence against women. They are told a child must not be spanked or hit because that is child abuse.

How are young men going to be respectful if they are raised without a father? If they have a father, how can they not help but be disrespectful if they and their fathers know that the father will not discipline them because he fears to be arrested for child abuse?

It is acceptable to accuse a man of a rape he did not commit and to label men potential rapists, but it is not legal to hit one’s obnoxious bullying disobedient child. This is not right.

I asked earlier why men commit this horrible crime. I do not think it has happened in a vacum. In the 1960s America’s middle class and upper middle class young people claimed that there was nothing immoral about their promiscuous lifestyle.

In the 1970s homosexuals were more promiscuous than the hippies. Homosexuals claimed to have a right to be promiscuous.

A snowball effect occurred. One could be permissive with each gender. An unmarried nineteen year old woman had no qualms about having a baby she could not support. One could have a sex change operation if one felt inadequate.

It makes sense. If so many groups were proud of their selfish lifestyles, then a warped man is going to have no qualms to do what he feels like doing.

We have to change society’s attitudes towards sex and violence. Abortions should be discouraged. Promiscuity must be looked down upon. Hollywood and the media must stop glorifying sex and violence. Homosexuality should not be glorified. Bisexuals need to be labelled wish-washy. A woman’s sexual freedom must end when she expects the government to pay for her baby.

What about properly convicted rapists? Jail them. Offer them no sympathy.

Most of you have heard the phrase No name. No shame. No blame. It applies to females who want to avoid responsibility for their fetus, or who feel they might hit their babies.

We need something like this for men who are in a rage and who are willing to try to stop their rage from causing violence. There must be counselling for men so men can express their pain, their horrible thoughts, feelings and desires without being reported to the police or presented to the media.

A final thing. Though feminism as a term is not dominant among young people, the influence of feminists remains stupendous.

Every man is perceivced by feminists to be a potential rapist. Consequently every man can be accused of rape under false or flimsy allegations.

As long as feminists write family law and rape law and set the agenda of what will be taught in schools, there will be the fear and shame and rage that causes men to rape. There will also be a fear of being raped that is blown out of proportion by women who love women and men to live in fear.

Good night.