Maundy Thursday preface … seems I might have to dip into the archive a bit more today and tomorrow, as the material on X is not offering a lot just now. This is going to mean separate posts with the “read more” reminder below. Here’s one from the turn of the Millennium.

Minette Marrin’s article is becoming increasingly difficult to find online so it’s archived here for reference:

Hatred of things male has led to the rape of justice

– Minette Marrin, Sunday Times, 24nov02, sect. 1, p19

‘All men are rapists” was one feminist battle cry of the 1970s. Not many people actually thought so, even at the time, but it did express an animosity towards men that was widely shared and has taken a firm hold in mass culture.

What the gender warriors probably meant is that all rapists are men. Not only do men have a monopoly on rape, they also have a near-monopoly on mugging, grievous bodily harm, warmongering, torture and crimes against humanity. Illogical people might therefore be led, by the same upside-down syllogism, to think that all men are awful and the root of all evil. Many do, and increasingly.

Even little children sense this prevailing orthodoxy in the playground. I will never forget the moment my nine-year-old daughter told my four-year-old son that men do all the bad and cruel things in the world and are wicked. But not girls. The poor little fellow looked at her in shame and horror. Since then he has been growing up in a climate of increasing misandry, the opposite of misogyny.

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