Re: Emotional Plague
David R. Rhodes (drrhodes@crl.com)
20 Apr 1995 09:24:41 -0700
ALLLLL RIGHTTTTT!!!!!. You mean I can now stop apologizing for being a male?
mgt@cruzio.com wrote:
: Letter to the LA Times
: Peter M. Nardi claimed in your letters column that the ever-increasing
: suicide rate among teen-agers results in part from the social prejudice faced
: by teen-age Gays and Lesbians.
: Gays and Lesbians make up only about 1-to-10% of the population at most
: (different polls yield different statistics) but a much larger minority makes
: up approximately 48% of the population -- namely, males. And this much larger
: minority confronts group libel and stereotyping every day of their lives, in
: the form of the "respectable" "politically correct" Androphobia of our times.
: Androphobia (as preached by Glorie Steinem, Andrea Dworkin etc.) transfers to
: all males the negative stereotypes that the Ku Klux Klan assigns only to
:
: Black males: mental inferiority, emotional childishness, brutality, sub-human
: status, criminality, sexual violence etc. -- everything but "a great sense of
: rhythm."
: It should come as no surprise, in a society where Androphobia is the one
: "respectable" form of bigotry, that the suicide rate of male teen-agers ranks
: FOUR TIMES HIGHER than that of females.
: In the early '20s, when people are grappling most painfully with sex role
: identity, the male suicide rate soars to SIX TIMES THAT OF FEMALES.
: 72% OF ALL SUICIDES ARE COMMITTED BY WHITE MALES
: (U.S. Department of Health statistics.)
: If anybody cares to argue that Androphobia plays no role in these awful
: statistics, just imagine a society in which red-heads, instead of some
: traditional minority, were stigmatized as mentally inferior, emotionally
: unstable, probably criminal etc. Would you feel surprised to find a high
: suicide rate among red-heads in such an environment?
: HEY HEY! HO HO! ANDROPHOBIA HAS TO GO!
: GAY OR STRAIGHT, MALES ARE GREAT! BALLS ARE NO EXCUSE TO HATE!
: Hot Shot Ralston
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