As a philosopher -- and particularly as a 'post-Hegelian, dialectic' philosopher -- I can put any of three philosophical hats on: 1. my white hat (DGB Creationism or Constructionism); 2. my black hat (DGB Deconstructionism); and 3. my 'gray hat' (DGB Integrationism or Compromisism).
I don't know how I got here (Equal Rights, Domesitic Violence, Support Payments, Property Divisions, etc...) -- that's a lie, I do know how I got here -- call it 'unfinished philosophical business'.
We have entered three realms of philosophy where I simply cannot play the role of 'Constructionist' or the role of 'Integrationist' until I have completely exhausted my role as a 'Raging, Dialectic-Democratic-Deconstructionist' (RDDD).
These three realms are: 1. 'equal rights'; 2. 'domestic violence' and 3. 'support payments and money and property division upon separation and/or divorce'.
Now people, in general are afraid of rage because they automatically connect it with 'the potential for violence'. But there are a few things that people don't often understand about rage. One, it is often needed by politicians, philosophers, and civilians alike to help clear away social, civil, cultural, political, philosophical, econmic, and legal toxins, pathologies -- and corruption. This is what I call 'civil rage' or 'democratic-dialectical rage'. This is where you take your rage and turn it towards the betterment of yourself and/or society...
Secondly, 'rage' itself is part of a 'dialectical-homeostatic process' -- with 'passivenss and submissiveness' on one side of the 'dialectic-democratic ledger' and 'aggressive-assertion-anger-rage' on the other side of the 'homeostatic-dialectic ledger'. Rage does not mean you have to 'wind up and hit somebody'. (In psychotherapy, they generally use 'pillows'.)
Excuse what some people might call my growing 'rigtheous extremism' -- and some might even say paranoia -- here but I look at the new age of 'liberal Anger Management Classes and Programs' and I see the 'newest instrument of social, political, legal, and emotional coercion' -- perpretated through and by the Domestic Court System, and one step further back, through/by the Political System...but behind it all is a hugely influential network of organizations -- some better, some worse than others -- but right here I will paint them all with the same brush (with room for qualifications, compromises, and integrations only much later) because I am angry at them -- very angry at them -- and thus, I will call them 'The League Of Nations For Narcissistic Women' who want much more than 'egalistarianism'; rather, they want 'all they can get from a 'Politically Correct Goverment of Canada' full of men who have completely lost their testosterone when facing off against these women, and who quiver on their knees before their power...
And I am just warming up...
This exercise is called 'How to Write Like Nietzsche In Half an Hour'...
Just put on your 'black hat'....feel your dialectic-democratic rage...get into a 'feeling and writing zone'...and 'don't look back...just go for it...and let them howl...
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'Never retract, never explain, never apologize -- just get the job done and let them howl.'
-- personal motto of activist Nellie McClung (Will Ferguson, Canadian History for Dummies, 2000, pg. 300.)
I do not want to be the angel of any home. I want for myself and I want for other women -- absolute equality. After that is secured then men and women can take turns at being angels.
-- Agnes Macphail, a champion of equal rights feminism (Will Ferguson, Canadian History for Dummies, 2000, pg. 303.)
These are my two favorite feminists in the history of Canada -- and my two favorite 'female deconstructionists'....
Let me define 'deconstructionism' again...
Philosophical, political, and legal deconstructionism is the art of detoxifying and uncorrupting government structures, processes, laws, and 'hidden directives' by defeating these structures, processes, laws, and hidden directives (as well as the men and women who are behind the forces of the government statu-quo, or behind pathological reform, with the power of superior reason, logic, satire, and/or rhetoric. -- dgb
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I was trying to run away from this issue -- a quick 'hit and run' essay ond 'Equal Rights' and 'Two Different Types of Feminism' -- and then on to 'personality theory' I was planning to go. But I can see this is not going to happen...once I get in i wont get out...not until the subject is totally exhausted and i have re-lived a lot of pain, grief, anger -- and yes, even rage...against the Canadian government for turning a blind eye to the pain and anguish of single fathers in this country, rage against the women who sre at least equally at fault -- if not more -- for 'setting the stage for domestic violence' and then who go running to the police, running to the women and organizations who/that defend these type of women like they are total 'victims' and 'angel's (see Agnus McPhail's quote) and who cannot see that some women have lived their whole lives learning how to 'manipulate men' and turn their 'seemingly superior physical, social, corporate, political, and legal power' into a relic of the past...Too many women today are seeing all too clearly -- and manipulatively -- that they no longer live in a man's world -- they live in a feminist's world that now has significant power over the police, power over the politicians, and power over the domestic and sexual legal system.
The myth of a 'patriarchal society' today is exactly that -- a myth perpetrated by narcissistic feminists who want to retain the political and legal perception of the 'underdog' in society because this gives them 'underdog power in the Domestic Court Room' to mobilize judges into making decisions to their legal and economic advantage.
Of coursse, there are still many cases where women still are getting the 'short end of the stick' in divorces but these women have their own feminist organizations to turn to trumpet these individual injustices.
At this point in time, I speak for the huge number of largely 'Silent Men' out there who may speak amongst themselves but who are not civilly and political loud. In fact, they are mainly mute. I speak -- or at least I would like to think I speak -- for the large number of divorced or separated men, fathers or not, who now have inferior rights to women inside what was once their 'shared home', inferior rights in front of the police who will jail a man much, much faster than he will jail a woman, inferior rights in the Domestic Courts of Canada where everyday men are being abused and vicitimed by 'preferred female rights', and inferior rights in the Supreme Court of Canada, in the parliament of Canada where male politicians have lost their testosterone when it comes to dealing with 'equal rights' issues and 'Feminist Organizations', and in the Constitution of Canada -- where once again powerful women's organizations have established, and are establishing, greater and greater 'preferred rights' on the backs of what Trudeau started, 'Affirmative Action Programs' made way worse, and Liberal Governments kept 'riding the same horse' with 'Conservative Governments' not very far behind with no oranized, powerful, 'Men's Civil Rights' groups to challenge the narcissistic feminist rhetoric face to face, and head on.
I love women -- which is why I hate to be here. All I want is fair, equal rights for both side where a man does not have to feel like a stranger in his own home because of the laws of Canada, and because it has been deemed 'his responsibility' to run out of his house the minute his spouse starts to 'go Postal' on him.
If there is going to be 'zero tolerance' for domestic violence in the home, then the man needs to be just as well proteceted by the laws of Canada as the woman is. Or women need to more fully experience what 'zero tolerance' actually means. The woman's role in the escalation, initiation, provocation, intimidation, and perpetuation of domestic violence needs to be just as much clearly understood and appreciated by the laws of Canada as the man's role. Any thing else is 'Social Stereotyping' (of the 'reverse' type), 'Sexual Profiling' (of the 'reverse' type) 'Sexual Reductionism and Scapegoating' -- as opposed to looking at the whole issue 'wholistically'.
Have I forgotten anything?
Oh yes. And 'Feminist Hypocrisy'. Let us finish this essay with a brief masculine perspective on narcissistic feminist hypocrisy.
Ladies, for those of you who have never 'pushed a man in anger', or 'thrown furnature at him', or whatever, I give you all the respect in the world as well. But if you have ever lifted your arm and struck a man, or pushed him, or thrown something at him, or used a weapon against him, then you have no right to parade around as a 'victim of domestic violence'. And you have no right to 'preach zero tolerance laws against men' if you are not willing to fully abide by them yourself. If you strike or push your man first, then -- by the laws of today -- there should be no ifs, ands, or buts about it. It should be the man staying in the home and you being paraded away in handcuffs to experience exactly what it feels like to spend a cold, bright, night on a cold steel bed with cold steel bars and concrete floors. Under today's supposed 'equal rigthts and protections' laws, this would be the full extent of equal rights, not you being allowed to take the children and go off to a woman's shelter.
Anything else -- at least until we loosen up these discriminative laws against men -- is sheer, unbridled, feminist hypocrisy -- or the practical extension of it. Freminist groups can couch their words in the rhetoric of their choice -- and they can make it all sound so 'nice and fair', but until men actually start blowing the whistle on women practising violence in the home -- that means phoning the police the same way women are now, and the police respect these calls just like they would respect it from a woman, and the woman if she initiated the first physical blow to the man is marched away in handcuffs to jail -- until all this happens, ladies your 'equal rights rhetoric' is about as empty as the jail cell I spent Father's Day in ten years ago. I learned my lesson -- and I learned my lesson the hard way. But don't tell me that women are getting the same type of 'rough ride' that men are.
Because that is unmitigated hogwash.
I am not a politician and never will be. My power runs between my mind, my fingers, and my keyboard, no more, no less.
Either my words will hit home -- hit their desired target -- or they won't.
I will let each of you at least partly be the judge of that?
You can listen to all the 'politically correct rhetoric'. Or you can listen to your heart and to your own sense of reason, fairness, equality, and justice.
Given these parameters, I think you will know what I am writing about here. I am not writing in a social vaccuum although oftentimes, with the overall silence of men, it sure feels like it.
It is after midnight and I am burnt out for tonight.
Goodnight.
dgb, June. 18th, 2008.
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