Last week, Mississippi State University engaged in a peculiar event designed to shame every possible man on campus. It was not a fraternity “hazing” ritual, although every fraternity on campus participated – on threat of sanctions from the Intra-Fraternity Council. College staff, including the campus police, were “invited” – more properly, required and coerced through administrative and social means – to join the March of Shame as well, carrying signs and placards proclaiming the self-shaming messages that are at the core of this event, while being jeered and sneered by a mostly-female audience.
The name of the ritual is “Walk A Mile In Her Shoes.” And it is enacted at college campuses all over the USA, as a hazing of men by women, thinly veiled as a “voluntary” effort to “raise awareness” about sexual violence.
Dorothy's ruby slippers would have been much more comfortable.
Every male participant was required to buy a pair of high-heeled shoes … the “sponsored” version being a stylish pump at a price-tag of nearly $100.00, made available by a company who profits mightily from every “Walk A Mile” event at every university or college that adopts the “Walk A Mile” event. A pair of shoes that they would wear, almost certainly, only once. And they would wear them only to be shamed and mocked by the women of the campus as they tottered around the “racecourse” in their 4-inch heels. Some of them would be given “canned” speeches and apologies, like the ritual confessions of Stalinist “show trials;” some would carry placards proclaiming “male shame;” all would bear the Masculine Evil Aggressor label placed on them by the organizers and spectators of this “playful” event.
The reason I am highlighting MSU is because one of the Engineering students at that school is a subscriber to the “A Voice For Men” website. This is a “virtual space” which is the ONLY area where “Ben,” as he calls himself on AVfM, can speak plainly about the MISANDRY that he and his fellow male students face on a day-to-day, every-day basis.
College used to be the place where young people – note my careful and intentional, gender-neutral label of “people” – learned and developed the knowledge and critical skills to “think for themselves” and extend, increase, widen the boundaries of “human knowledge” – another statement in which I have carefully and intentionally neutralized “gender”. Let’s face it, the word “gender” itself denies any possibility that one’s chromosomal make-up might influence one’s behavior. But guess again – many, many studies have shown and proven and displayed the truth of the concept that “male and female He created them,” or “male and female they evolved.”
This is anathema to the “Gender-Raunch-Identity-Supremacist” women – more precisely, harridans – who actually rule today’s colleges. “How dare those evil, defective, misogynist bearers of the Y-chromosome dare to have anything resembling an opinion about ANYTHING WHATSOEVER??!!!”
The result is a campus like Mississippi State Uni-FARCE-ity.
The result is a college that MANDATES the participation, by the “co-ed” males, in a shaming ceremony where the women lead, the women demand, the women jeer and mock and laugh at their participation, and the women REQUIRE that they parrot canned speeches and “ritual apologies” about their ritually-imagined culpabilities in a crime that the apologizing men would certainly never commit!
The result is a college plastered with anti-male propaganda portraying men as nothing more than raping machines, with special shaming events throughout the year – like the “Clothesline Project” and “Walk A Mile In Her Shoes” – and men-shaming posters everywhere, even to anti-male placards over the urinals in the men’s bathrooms.
The result is a hostile learning environment … for the men.
The appropriate target for this “Walk-A-Mile” shaming would be the thankfully-tiny class of men who will NEVER show up for this supplicating, fem-supremacy-acknowledging, male-groveling ritual! The real “potential rapist”, the guy who would authentically grab a woman after midnight and drag her back into the bushes, will not be joining this school-mandated, commercially-profitable, “foundation”-enabled “Walk A Mile In Her Shoes” shaming event.
Dish out enough shame to the men, the males, the penis-owners, and they WILL leave the scene to you!
And to the sociopathic males who WOULD rape you, if they didn’t fear the men who WON’T.
Maybe a better strategy would be to appeal to the kindly instincts of the men, though; an authentic smile will get you better results than a nasty sneer …
And, Ruby, don’t wear those shoes to town!
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has published a list of Men’s Rights organizations and websites that SPLC accuses of “hate crimes” – including A Voice For Men, The Spearhead, The False Rape Society, S.A.V.E. (Stop Abuse and Violent Environments), In Mala Fide, and others … Beyond The Sunset, though, was somehow overlooked. So was Radfemhub.com, a website that frankly advocates killing off most of the men in society, and who is raising money for SPLC!
Speaking of “hate speech,” The Spearhead (13 Mar 2012) has the story of how Gloria Steinem and “Hanoi Jane” Fonda called for the FCC to censor Rush Limbaugh.
Also on The Spearhead, guest writer Ethical (11 Mar 2012) posted the Top Twelve Indications that the Law in Family Courts is Feminist.
The Counter-Feminist is another one of the “SPLC Twelve,” and I might have added it to my blogroll just on that distinction. Fidelbogen’s conceptual map of counter-feminism, and of countering feminism, deserves more attention….
Beyond The Sunset 