Contra-Feminismo en Español!

The following e-mail came in yesterday:

"Hi Fidelbogen: I'm a regular reader of your blog from Spain. I wanted to comment that most, if not all, of the issues you treat in your blog are present also
in my country and your posts are totally applicable here, so, first of all, thank you and keep up the good work!

"I'll give you an example. Some weeks ago we had to hear how the leader of the conservative party in Spain, the second most voted, said that women will pay lower taxes than men if he gets elected next March 9th, all in name of equality. This nonsense was even denounced by Glenn Sacks in his blog, here:

http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=1787

"It's a pity we don't have so many blogs dedicated to these topics in
spanish as in english. This is why I would like to comment you about
one of the spanish blogs I know that is also dedicated to
counter-feminism. Its name is "Personas, no género" (People, not
gender)

personasnogenero.blogspot.com

"I have seen that you have a french blog in your links, so I thought
that maybe you would consider to add Personas, no género to your links for your spanish-speaking readers. I would be glad to translate some of its posts for you, if you are interested and want to know more. I think that having a link in your blog would contribute to spread counter-feminism in spanish."

Yes. I had a look at "Personas, no género". Not only was the quality excellent, but I was mighty pleased to find that I could read Spanish far better than I thought I could! 80% of the meaning was clear to me, and if it wasn't I could usually capture the grist of it from the context!

I will share the following on the assumption that some of you folks are a bit multi-lingual. Yes, rumor has it that MRAs are better educated than most feminists think, but don't let them know that, okay? Let them go on believing that we're a passel of illiterate wife-beaters, so we can more effectively pull the wool over their eyes! ;)

"Tengo que reconocer que me muevo entre el estupor y el desconcierto con esto de la igualdad y el feminismo. Por ejemplo, me sorprende muchísimo cuando la simple propuesta de una educación diferenciada para niños y niñas en el mismo centro escolar es catalogada por muchas y muchos como segregacionista, pero cada día contribuyamos más a la idea de que en la sociedad hay dos tipos de cuestiones: las generales y las de la mujer. En las generales estamos todos y todas, en las de la mujer están las mujeres. Algo así como: lo tuyo es tuyo y mío, lo mío es mío solo. Puede que la anécdota del señor Solbes salvando la legislatura en la que había ocupado un lugar más bien gris y discreto ayude a entender lo que queiro decir.

Por si no fuera suficiente con la administración exclusiva de la mujer: Instituto de la mujer, consejerías de la mujer en las comunidades autónomas, concejalías en los ayuntamientos, cátedras de la mujer en las universidades, centros de estudio de la mujer, organizaciones profesionales de la mujer etc. etc. etc. I.U. propone un Ministerio de la mujer. Si esto no es segregacionista como había que tildarlo, de separatista… o quizá pensar que como los del Señor los caminos de la igualdad son inescrutables y debemos ver recto donde los renglones están torcidos. Tengo la impresión de que para hablar de este tema encontrásemos más fuente de inspiración en la creencia que en la razón o la Ilustración. De otro modo no hay manera de entender tanta ruptura de la norma cuando de la igualdad se trata: ruptura de la norma de igualdad en lo penal, del principio de capacidad económica en lo fiscal, discriminación positiva por doquier, excepción administrativa, legal, educativa….

In addition to Spain, CF draws readers from all over Latin America, so I am happy to direct their attention to this fine Spanish-language blog!

Notice how the conservative party in Spain is supporting the women's platform! Feminism has so completely saturated the general culture that it has ceased altogether to be an issue of Left vs. Right politics! Well. . . I have long felt desolately bored by the entire left-right frame of discourse. Mightn't we take this as our cue to formulate some manner of philosophical tertium quid or "third road" in our counter-feminist endeavor?

It is, I might add, a sobering experience to discover, first-hand, exactly how RAW the situation for men is becoming in overseas nations! We in the good ol' USA just don't know how good we currently, temporarily have it. But give it a couple of decades. . . .