Supremicists are pathetic. White supremacists may be the most notable of the breed. Their websites are loaded with scary-looking skulls and lightning bolts, but their prose is barely literate and their “proofs” of their superiority tend to be long-ago debunked books and transparently bogus “scientific evidence.”<\/p>\n
They operate in cells of one (or two or three) not because it’s a wise security measure but because they can’t get along with each other for 10 minutes. And much of their semi-literate ranting consists of denunciations of each other.<\/p>\n
Not one of these “superior” beings has made a single impressive accomplishment in any area of endeavor — except, rarely, murder. Which gets headlines but fails to impress as a great work of humanity.<\/p>\n
But they are far from the only variety of supremacist, and all of them are pathetic.<\/p>\n
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My dad was a male supremacist — a common thing in those days. A lot of my friends’ fathers were similar. He sneered at all women, and any time a woman did something he didn’t approve, it had to do with being female.<\/p>\n
If a male driver did something stupid, it was because he was a dumbass or a jerk. If a woman driver did the same thing, it was because she was a woman.<\/p>\n
All women were terrible with money. Never mind that when my weary mother finally handed the household finances over to Dad after years of belittlement, he took us from an ordinary working-class existence to the brink of bankruptcy in months.<\/p>\n
All men were stronger, better, and smarter in every way than all women. Yet somehow, women were always able to control<\/i> men.<\/p>\n
God (whom Dad otherwise paid very little attention to) gave all men divine authority to rule over all women and children. Those women and children who didn’t submit were “unnatural.” Dad never realized he possessed absolutely no leadership ability, forcing my mother to organize the family and driving us kids into subterfuge (sis), avoidance (bro), or rebellion (me). <\/p>\n
That he resorted to violence to prove his superiority was a tragedy. It got plenty of notice. But it failed to impress.<\/p>\n
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Now it seems we’re developing a class of female supremacists, mostly headquartered in academia where it’s very easy to think of yourself as a superior being.<\/p>\n
So far, their pronouncements are focused more on how bad<\/i> men and boys are are — rapists, excluders, insensitive, inherently violent, in need of being tightly controlled by the female-led bureaucracies of schools or the mighty hammer of law and regulation. Few of these self-righteous, hate-filled pronunciators are explicitly touting their own superiority as females.<\/p>\n
But focusing on the badness of the “other” is the same as proclaiming your own superiority. Just a matter of emphasis.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, I haven’t gotten close to too many of these female supremicists, but certainly the ones who’ve gotten the most press — from the early MacKinnon-Dworkin complex to the current crop of mattress-toting or wolf-crying rape claimants — also fail to impress.<\/p>\n
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Would have been nice had the feminist movement of the 70s ended up empowering both men and women. Would have been great to see us all free to be more ourselves, to take on the roles we’re personally best-suited for and happiest with, regardless of stereotypes. That’s happened to a certain extent, though women have benefited far more than men. And it seems too often that, rather than sharing and enjoying personal power, empowering women has discouraged and (dare I say) unmanned men.<\/p>\n
Now it’s sad to see men falling from economic and social grace while female supremacists try to push the guys down even farther. <\/p>\n
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On a related topic …<\/b><\/p>\n