When the world goes to hell, it’s men who die to save others. Remembering the first responders of 9/11

11 Sep

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Of the 2977 people killed on September 11th, 2001, 414 were NYC emergency personnel who responded to the attack. 341 firefighters, 60 police officers, 8 EMTs and 3 court officers.

Two of those responders were women. The other 412 were men.

Glance through any newspaper or magazine, browse the web, listen to the radio, watch television and you will be bombarded with the message that men are bad. They are rapists and murderers and wife-beaters and misogynists who delight in hurting women and take every opportunity to do so. That is the story feminism concocted about men and they have been horrifyingly successful in disseminating it widely. Men are treated with suspicion and often outright hatred, and the only reason for that is ironic –  because we are more or less living in one of the safest and most secure places on Earth.

 

Detonate a bomb or crash some planes into buildings, and it becomes very, very clear that what stands between us and abject horror is men. Men are the ones who rush into the smoke and flames and falling debris. Men are the ones who put their own lives on the line to save others. Men are the ones who die.

 

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On this day I want to remember the men who died evacuating the World Trade Center, and making what could have been a death toll in the tens of thousands considerably lower. They were sons, husbands, fathers, brothers – they were brave men who did their jobs and gave their lives in that service.

 

They were not rapists or murderers or child abusers or sex offenders or incompetent bumbling idiots or any other negative, hateful stereotype we see and hear about men.

 

They were men. Just normal men.

 

Today is a day to remember the men who died, and to turn to all the men around us who are alive and say two simple words:

 

Thank you

 

Thank you for your need to protect others. Thank you for your strength and courage and bravery. Thank you for taking risks. Thank you for being afraid and still doing what needs to be done.  Thank you for facing danger. Thank you for being selfless.

 

Thank you for being a man.

 

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Thank you.

 

Lots of love,

JB

 

 

78 Responses to “When the world goes to hell, it’s men who die to save others. Remembering the first responders of 9/11”

  1. Justin "Master Chim" Garcia September 11, 2014 at 15:07 #

    Ah, the consistent breath of fresh air that is your commentary. Keep crushing it, Lady! 🙂

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  2. Ferrum September 11, 2014 at 15:31 #

    Thank you, Judgy. You were one of the first women I ever ran across on the internet who actually had something good to say about men. You’re a breath of fresh air and I appreciate the acknowledgment.

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  3. Peacock September 11, 2014 at 15:43 #

    You don’t accept comments which differ from your views, I see.

    I’ll state this again- Terrorist attacks are mostly done by men. I don’t mean to counter your post, I just think it is incomplete.

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  4. Spaniard September 11, 2014 at 15:43 #

    The problem is not that feminists say that men are women-beaters or rapist. The problem is that they want to be beaten and they want to be raped.

    Worst: they want to be beaten and raped and then complain to the media. And then they go for more, and then complain again.

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  5. judgybitch September 11, 2014 at 16:28 #

    I deleted your first comment because it felt incredibly disrespectful. And genocides are terrorist attacks are often carried out by women – the Rwandan Genocide carried out by many, many women who hacked children to death.

    Why would you even post a “men are bad” comment here? That is the real question. Even on a day like 9/11 you can’t accept a post celebrating good men without trying to interject something evil into the conversation?

    ‘Keep your replies civil. My patience today is extremely limited.

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  6. paulvzo September 11, 2014 at 16:49 #

    You are a real piece of work, Spaniard. I keep trying to convince myself that I’m misinterpreting something, or the true intent isn’t coming across in “print.” But no, this affirms my observation: You are a misogynist of the deeply dwelling woman hating kind, not the occasional lapsing into a joke kind.

    Here you group every woman as wanting to be beaten and raped. I guess, for instance, my mother and a daughter of mine didn’t get the memo. I’ll just collapse the two stories into “You won’t ever do that again…….cuz I’m gone.”

    The whole 50 Shades of Gray phenomena shows, and those of us who have treaded into BDSM, know that huge numbers of women do want to know pain, domination, and loss of control (“power exchange.”) But that’s very different from the drunk husband beating up his wife, or a not wanting sex and being raped.

    The final insult to this blog is that you didn’t even make a comment about the topic……just another rant. I hope The Pussy Goddess either cuts you off completely, or is sending Lorena Bobbitt to the Iberian peninsula.

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  7. paulvzo September 11, 2014 at 16:53 #

    I don’t have a source for this, but I remember hearing about a sudden surge of pregnant soldiers as their units were starting to be deployed to Afghanistan and later, Iraq.

    Totally shameful. The 412 men who died in the attacks didn’t have that option. And I doubt they would have taken any option to not do their duty.

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  8. judgybitch September 11, 2014 at 16:53 #

    Spaniard has been commenting here a long time and I confess I do not read his comments carefully. Is there an issue I should be aware of? Has something changed?

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  9. paulvzo September 11, 2014 at 16:59 #

    Only that he is a male equivalent of the screeching man hating feminists that we all disdain. His dialogue is just hate, hate, hate. Seldom constructive to the conversations and certainly not helpful in making a world where both men and women are appreciative of the other gender.

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  10. judgybitch September 11, 2014 at 17:24 #

    Would you recommend a block or a warning?

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  11. FuzzieWuzzie September 11, 2014 at 17:26 #

    Thanks, JB. Men don’t get to hear enough kind words said about them in this culture.
    You did answer a question for me. There were more casualties in NY than at Pearl Harbor.

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  12. Peacock September 11, 2014 at 17:49 #

    I’m sorry. I admit my comment was inappropriate, especially since 9/11 was a tragedy.
    Maybe another time.

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  13. paulvzo September 11, 2014 at 17:55 #

    It’s your blog, not mine!

    I’m pretty much anti-censorship, I like to let ignorance take the spotlight so that others can see it for what it is.

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  14. Jim September 11, 2014 at 18:21 #

    Thank you JB. Very refreshing. At least one woman is grateful for the sacrifices and work men do. Your husband must love you more than anything.

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  15. That_Susan September 11, 2014 at 18:28 #

    Yes, thanks to all you wonderful men! My nine-year-old daughter is reading over my shoulder and she wants me to rephrase my statement and say, “Yes, thanks to all you wonderful unicorn-flying men!” When you make it into “My Little Pony”-league, you know you’re right up there with the real little girl greats!

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  16. Phil phil September 11, 2014 at 18:41 #

    When men do bad things good men stop them and pick up th pieces. When bad women do things……. still waiting.
    Thanks for the post JB.

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  17. The Real Peterman September 11, 2014 at 19:38 #

    Women are brave in their own way but if I’m ever trapped in a burning building I hope a man comes to rescue me, not a girl-power feminist woman.

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  18. The Real Peterman September 11, 2014 at 19:40 #

    Most men would be only too happy to help someone in an emergency. But only a tiny, tiny percentage of men have any interest in being terrorists.

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  19. The Real Peterman September 11, 2014 at 19:41 #

    Let him stay. Just as long as the rest of us call him out when he says something nutty.

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  20. Cadders September 11, 2014 at 19:52 #

    Honestly – this kind of myopia leaves me speechless.

    Of course most really, really bad stuff is done by men.

    Most really really good stuff is done by men as well.

    For one simple reason – men are more exceptional then women. In any given population you will find far more male CEOs, Nobel Prize winners, breakthrough scientists, great leaders, sublime artists then you will women – about 8 times more in fact.

    You will also find more male criminals, homeless, clinical imbeciles, despots than women – about 8 times more in fact.

    For one very simple reason – eggs are more valuable than sperm. Nature needs us to evolve so it experiments, pushes the envelope of what it means to be human. And you don’t experiment with the most valuable part of your population – young fertile women – which of course means women in general.

    Women, as a group, cluster much more around the average then men do, as a group.

    This doesn’t mean that women are incapable of reaching the top, or the bottom, just that there will always be fewer of them there, compared to men.

    And yet feminism continues to take the worst of men and use them to characterize all men, and take the best of women and use them to characterize all women. And use the fact that there isn’t a 50-50 split of men / women in EVERYTHING to justify it.

    So men are demonized and many women are instructed to take paths they are not best suited for. End result; men disengaging and women increasingly relying on psychiatric drugs and other self destructive self medication to get by.

    The sad thing is – you know who used to control the really bad men and help the ones at the bottom? The vast mass of balanced, reasonable, fair and decent men in the middle. The very men feminism has attacked because it knew these men were too good natured to truly fight back.

    And they haven’t. Instead they are walking away. You might want to give that some consideration before you join the chorus implying that all men are as bad as the worst of men. And please don’t try to deny this was the implication of your post – leaving me speechless is one thing – don’t make me think you are feeble minded as well. I have a mother, wife and daughter whom I love very much but I know they tend towards plausible deniability when they think they can get away with it.. But they at least try to control it and see the men in their lives for what they are rather than what the herd tells them to think.

    So should you.

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  21. paulvzo September 11, 2014 at 20:18 #

    But the vast majority, if not all, of the fatalities at Pearl Harbor were military, not civilians.

    Also keep in mind that our country didn’t even have half the population it does today.

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  22. FuzzieWuzzie September 11, 2014 at 20:33 #

    Jb, I would recommend seeking the advice of someone who has had to moderate a more active comment thread.

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  23. Peacock September 11, 2014 at 21:20 #

    Until a few centuries ago, a person’s achievements almost entirely depended upon his/(sometimes her) martial ability which has been a male thing.
    Now as we feel less encumbered by nature due to modern technology, I do see women competing with men on same level in the future.
    Even now you see Kurdish peshmerga women fighting against the extremists (who stone women) when Iraqi soldiers retreated. This might be a cherry-picked example as of now, but I hope to see more of these examples in the future. Of course it is necessary that they accept the responsibilities after gaining such power.

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  24. That_Susan September 11, 2014 at 21:25 #

    I do like it that J.B. allows people more room to say out-of-bounds stuff that what’s allowed on many feminist blogs. I know I’ve offended some people here but at least no one’s accused me of being “triggering.”

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  25. Baldwin Bravo September 11, 2014 at 23:52 #

    Feminism has been very sucsessful at chalenging gender stereotypes.
    Most recognise how they challenged negative stereotypes of women, few are aware of how they challenged positive stereotypes of men.

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  26. DrDave September 12, 2014 at 00:39 #

    Speaking as a first responder, albeit just a volunteer, I don’t do it for the glory or the thanks, I do it to feel useful. There’s nothing I hate more than being a bystander when something bad is going on. I want to put my skills and abilities to use for the community, for my family, and for my myself. 1% of the population of Tasmania (where I live) are volunteer firefighters just like myself, we’re a very small state with a very small population and only 200 actual paid firefighters (most of whom are administrators and trainers) so we volunteers are essential to keeping everyone safe. For us, it’s not about heroism, it’s simple pragmatism, the state and our communities simply wouldn’t function without us and life would be a lot more dangerous for everyone ourselves included. On behalf of the men (and yes, a few women too) in yellow, thank you for the thanks. We’ll do what we do regardless, but it is nice to be recognised.

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  27. feminismisafarse September 12, 2014 at 07:10 #

    Great article.

    When men stop fighting for/defending their groups beliefs or stop sacrificing themselves when the going gets tough…then every woman will become either a vile man hater or ultra traditionalist woman who just want men back.
    We live in the most spoiled and advanced civilization in history (advanced spoilage 🙂 fewer people respect the necessity of masculinity and femininity to the balance of human survival and growth….until tough times hit them.

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  28. Spaniard September 12, 2014 at 10:39 #

    Paulvzo, I wrote a comment on topic but it seems has been delated.
    It was about the conspiracy theorist of Dr. David Duke, which says that 9/11 was Zionist plan.
    I did a relation between the 9/11 Zionist conspiracy and feminist Zionist conspiracy.
    It is all about destroy Christiandom.

    About my hate speech… Yes, it is hate and humor, based, I am afraid, in reality.
    In the Iberian peninsula we say. “¿En qué se parecen las mujeres a las pelotas de frontón? En que cuanto más fuerte las das, más rápido vuelven” (“What is the similarity between women an fronton balls?” The harder you hit them, the faster they come back to you”.)

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  29. Stephen B. Thompson September 12, 2014 at 12:05 #

    Modern technology has freed most of the human race from 40 centuries of agricultural labor (at least). As late as the year 1900 in the USA 50% of the American population was rural, 50% urban. Billions of lifetimes have been lived tending the crops. Even ancient Rome with its population of 100 million had only 250,000 legionnaires. That is 1 in 400. That was a full time paid army which had never existed before and would not be seen again until 15th century in Europe. Wars and battles got written into history for their drama, excess and outcomes. A time motion study of the human being through history would show much time spent hoeing rows of beans, pulling up turnips and robbing chickens of their eggs. The sliver on the pie chart showing war and preparation for war when compared to pulling weeds would be very small indeed. You are correct when you suggest all this changed recently, about 2 centuries ago. Prior to the steel ploughshare and the steam engine nearly all humanity in all climes and times have lived in the cycle of the seasons, the need of labor today for a harvest tomorrow and only the company of each other’s speech or song to fill days and nights between. It is those activities which are the baseline for human culture NOT martial ones. The experiment which is public education and the revolution which is modern communication seems to have produced so large and so loud a volume of information that it is perhaps forgivable to forget the centuries of human culture that underpin our temporary now.

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  30. paulvzo September 12, 2014 at 12:33 #

    Thank you for confirming everything I said. David Duke, yes, now there’s an objective source of information.

    And, no, that is not funny, about women and fronton balls.

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  31. paulvzo September 12, 2014 at 12:34 #

    Not to pick nits, it’s not “Farse,” but “Farce.”

    Carry on.

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  32. Master Beta September 12, 2014 at 13:21 #

    agreed

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  33. Spaniard September 12, 2014 at 13:34 #

    Thank you, Susan, you are a sweetie.

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  34. Peacock September 12, 2014 at 13:56 #

    It is true that humans have mostly been involved in agricultural activities throughout the history, but the radical changes and reforms in society have been successful mostly due to martial activities in history.

    See French revolution, Civil war, Wars of independence- they wouldn’t have occurred in that time if peasants or locals had not shown their strength in wars.

    You wouldn’t have imagined such a thing as egalitarianism at the time of Joan of Arc. This is why feminism has been important in granting rights to women who couldn’t have them by having a fight obviously.

    Lets assume I have a fantasy device, through which I can overcome the lack of physical strength in women due to sexual dimorphism and use it on the women in places like Middle East. I bet you will see a drastic change in the attitudes against women.

    It really saddens me that the so-called feminists in the liberal west cry over stupid problems while ignoring the major problems women are going through in the middle east.

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  35. Amit September 12, 2014 at 14:12 #

    You may be surprised but the Late Indian PM Shri Rajiv Gandhi was blown by a suicide bomber who was a Woman.

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  36. Spaniard September 12, 2014 at 17:17 #

    I would specify: it is black humor.

    And talking about black… I would like to nuance one of my bigot comments a few JudgyBitch articles ago:

    I have to say that the black people I notice behaving agressive over here are ALWAYS rastafarians. I guess a few of them are from U.S. but think most of them are British Caribbeans.
    No problem at all with the rest of black people.

    I enjoy so much being a redneck bigot, but I enjoy much more fairness.

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  37. paulvzo September 12, 2014 at 17:52 #

    “I enjoy so much being a redneck bigot, but I enjoy much more fairness.”

    Don’t know what you mean, sorry. I know English isn’t your mother tongue, but overall you do a good job.

    No humor is “black” if expresses approval to hurt people or dehumanize them.

    Since this blog is about gender issues, I suggest you stick to the topics and not bring up racial slurring topics and viewpoints. If you want to continue to parade your misogyny, and JB lets you, you just tell the world what kind of man you are.

    Mi dos centavos……..

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  38. Goober September 12, 2014 at 18:08 #

    Peacock;

    The problem isn’t even the ABILITY to compete with men, but the desire to.

    Women choose a safer existence, ;generally speaking. If you look at a statistical curve of men and women, the women bunch much more tightly to the center then men do, meaning there are far more exceptional men, and far more horrible men, than there are women. You’re going to see more men robbing banks, and likewise more men pinoeering new sports like wingsuiting and motocross.

    It’s not that women can’t race motocross. I’ve seen several that were quite good at it. But most choose not to, and have no desire to.

    It’s sort of a biological thing. It has to do with expendability.

    On a brutal, biological basis, a tribe can lose all but a few of it’s men, and they will be fine. One man can sire hundreds of children.

    One woman, though? Maybe 5, back in pre-modern medicine times, on average. I’ll bet the average is actually even lower than that, but let’s say 5, just for argument’s sake.

    You lose a villiage full of women, the tribe is dead. Lose a villiage full of men? Meh, it sucks, but you’ll recover.

    Men are more expendable than women, and so evolution (and probably society, to a certain extent) has pushed women to be more risk adverse than men, just on a “survival of the species” basis.

    Women are less risk adverse. There are less women on the bottom of the scale, and likewise less at the top, and there’s a reason for that.

    In order to ever, ever, ever get women on the same level of competition as men, as a whole, you’re going to have to:

    1.) Wait for evolutionary biology to catch up with modern times, which could take thousands of years;
    2.) Lower the bar by bringing men down a peg;
    3.) Force women to compete at levels that they have no desire to compete at, and therefore make them all miserably unhappy.

    Guess which one feminists choose?

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  39. Goober September 12, 2014 at 18:13 #

    I’m tired of that military vs. civilians comparison. As if the men in the military are more expendable than men and women who are not.

    Nothing in the US was a valid military target on the morning of December 7th, even our military, because we weren’t at war.

    It was the height of chickenshit cowardice that caused Imperial Japan to strike in the blind like that. No less excusable than 9/11 just becaus it was a “military” target.

    Our military was at peace at the time. It was doing more humanitarian work then than it was wartime. You could make the argument just as easily that htey hit a humanitarian installation as a military target that morning.

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  40. That_Susan September 12, 2014 at 18:17 #

    Except that according to some other stuff I’ve read here, aren’t there just as many women committing violent crimes as men — but just not getting prosecuted because feminists have pushed the world’s justice systems into overlooking female crimes?

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  41. Spaniard September 12, 2014 at 18:22 #

    The comments on black people have all to do with feminism.
    White men wear condoms when they intercourse with black women, but black men don´t when they intercourse with white women (in many cases, there is no size enough for them) and white women say “OK, no problem, let´s go”, and then we have all that wave of single moms (in Spain, too) with mulato babies, and the State has to support them. It seems black men (at least the wave of Subsaharian young African men we are dealing in Spain, lately) are not very sensible, neither responsible. I do not know in U.S.

    The kind of man I am… redneck, bigot, middle aged, alcoholic, “john”, with small penis.

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  42. paulvzo September 12, 2014 at 19:14 #

    Throughout the neolithic portion of our specie’s existence, we have always differentiated casualties when military or civilian. It has no reflection on the value of a life, but society’s. People go into the military, willingly or not, knowing that there’s a fair chance that they will be killed. That’s why we pay all the lip service about honoring our military.

    But people don’t go to work one morning with that mind set.

    Deaths in law and the military are a lot less frequent that commonly held. Safer than being a taxi driver or convenience store clerk or a farmer. Actually, even in a war theater, your odds of survival are higher than realized. I did calculations once about the Viet Nam War once, and the odds were 7 to 1 that you wouldn’t be killed. Yes, I know this doesn’t take into account the wounded, whether physically or mentally. And behind the lines occupations swing the odds away from the higher risk of being in the jungle. I had a friend who, since he was a surfer got assigned to be a life guard at Cam Ranh Bay.

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  43. redpillgirlnotes September 12, 2014 at 20:23 #

    Perfectly put! Bravo.

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  44. Scythian Arrows September 12, 2014 at 23:33 #

    Women cannot compete with men on ANY physical level, because every time they do, the women are completely and utterly trounced.

    The Kurdish women fighting ISIL/ISIS are not doing so out of a female version of manly virtue, but because they have no other choice. When hostilities cease, they will go back to cooking, keeping house, and getting knocked up by their unibrowed husbands.

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  45. Scythian Arrows September 12, 2014 at 23:34 #

    They don’t commit violent crime at the same level, but there exists a massive discrepancy in sentencing.

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  46. Scythian Arrows September 12, 2014 at 23:44 #

    If anything, feminism has *reinforced* a lot of negative stereotypes – the nag, the busybody, the overemotional wreck, the loose woman, etc.

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  47. paulvzo September 12, 2014 at 23:57 #

    How true! Russian women fought brave and hard with the men in WWII, mostly in support roles. But just like our own Rosie the Riveters, when the question of survival of the group, the culture was over, it was spread legs, make families.

    One of the most powerful “A ha!” moments in my life, repeated a few times was when I worked in mostly female office environment ca. 1994. From time to time, the receptionist would announce over the office PA, “Bunny is here with her new baby!” Bunny, of course, had left employment to have her new baby. There would be this stampede of women rushing to the lobby, each leaving their work duties as fast as they could justify.

    The men in the office would typically either ignore this call to motherhood, or wander out there eventually to be civil.

    When friends and family have a birth announcement my reaction is rather subdued. It’s not on the line of “Ohmifuckinggod its a miracle!” (Which it is a miracle only in the sense of how amazing nature and DNA do their jobs.) I think for most men that aren’t the fathers, the responses tend to be more on the lines of, “Is he/she healthy?”

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  48. Alex September 13, 2014 at 02:41 #

    now that i think about it, Spaniard’s comments are kinda refreshing. bit of a break from everyone sounding the horn of egalitarianism, which is a good thing, but sometimes it’s nice to have someone who’s mindset is in an area of “this shit does work you know” traditionalism. if we want an egalitarian society, we may have to fall back towards tradition long enough for an egalitarian CULTURE (something that isn’t really present right now) to pop up. his comments also good “guilty pleasure” style dark humor on a site like this (there may be some confusion in this as i’m not entirely sure what i’m saying myself)

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  49. Kelly64 September 13, 2014 at 05:11 #

    “Thank you for your need to protect others”.

    You write men well JB, Not many women get that “women and children first” need not be said. It’s hard wired.

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  50. paulvzo September 13, 2014 at 12:49 #

    There is SO much human behavior that is hard wired, as you say. Evoluntionary psychobiology, if you will. It forms us and informs us. Then we have the gall to congratulate ourselves, thinking that we made a decision, when in fact, it was made a million years ago. And then we proceed to justify it with logic.

    Like woman and children first, these matters are everywhere, at all times we are awake. It’s why we care more about family, then friends, then the community, than people half way around the world, no matter how heart rending the situation is. We care or don’t care based on the amount of DNA and “cultural DNA” that we share. Despite all our sophistication and technological prowess, dating is essentially just mating. Again, from what to wear (expose cleavage? Not?) to intercourse, the decisions were made long ago.

    It informs us in who we should trust, who we should fear. It justifies war and violence, it makes us do utterly stupid and self-destructive things (think sex!) It makes us send the expendable males out to intercept the strangers and send the women and children into hiding.

    It’s a long list, but not the theme of this thread, so I’ll stop.

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  51. Bill Peterseim September 13, 2014 at 15:07 #

    Amen. And, might I add, it was MEN who dropped by parachute and glider into and stormed onto the beaches of Normandy to assault the greatest defensive “wall” in history, and the might of Hitler’s Wehrmacht defending “The Atlantic Wall” of his “Fortress Europe” in the largest amphibious and airborne operation in the history of the world, in an effort to liberate an entire continent from the tyranny of oppressive dictatorship…and it was those men, facing staggering odds and fear beyond anything imaginable, who succeeded, but who lost their lives by the tens of thousands.

    It was MEN who travelled half way ’round the world to fight in deplorable conditions in a so-called “police action” they didn’t understand (so-named because our leaders didn’t want to acknowledge [until later] that it was really one hell of a war, to liberate the invaded people of South Korea. Some of these men today, nearly 60 years later, who only recently received the recognition and respect they so long deserved, still suffer from its effects: physical damage from frost bite, hearing loss, loss of limb, and psychological damage.

    It was MEN who were sent to another land a decade later in the same region of SE Asia, to defend yet another beleaguered nation called Vietnam. These men were different in that their corrupt and grossly incompetent leftist leaders at home (starting with “The Commander -in-chief Lyndon Johnson) lacking any military experience, chose to “run” that war from the War Room in the Pentagon. They forced those “boots on the ground” (which they conveniently seemed to forget were filled with young American BOYS-forced overnight to turn into men prematurely) to fight a horrific enemy but with rules of engagement unprecedented in military history. This included no-fire zones. It included according different villages different rules and punishing you if, in the heat of battle, you got them mixed up. It forced our MEN to hold fire when they had the enemy clearly in sight preparing to attack them…but to wait until Americans were dead before returning fire. It included ordering our B-52 bombers to attack targets but to always follow the same exact route to and from that target so that the enemy could “give thanks” and move into position along that known route…ordered by Johnson…more anti-aircraft guns than Hitler was able to muster in all of Germany against attacks by our 8th Air Force…and thus down our first-ever B-52s, killing or imprisoning our MEN. And, after enduring the hell that was Vietnam, these MEN came home…lucky to do so in one piece…to be spit upon by ignorant Americans…defamed, ridiculed…by leftist Activists who willingly drank the Kool-Aid dosed out on American campuses by communist professors like Bill Ayers. These brave men who suffered so much (many of whom still suffer in silence) have only recently been granted any respect or recognition and then, only because of the glaring difference in their treatment verses the American Men and some women, who returned from successful mission in Iraq, the first of which lasted something like 3 days, with a couple of men and women taken captive briefly, and fewer than 100 KIA.

    So, in conclusion, it’s great that women are now allowed to fill certain combat roles, as required in Israel. But, you enjoy your freedom (including your right to perpetually bash men and make them the brunt of your wit and diatribe) because American MEN protected that right by laying down their lives and sacrificing their futures. Don’t believe me? Then, why don’t all of you men-bashing, men-hating women, renounce your citizenship, and move to Saudi Arabia where you will spend your lives wrapped from head to toe in the hottest nation on earth, shut your mouths and perform your one role as “breeder” and bow to your husband as one of his many wives, don’t think of voting or speaking out, forget getting any education and surrender your Driver’s License, because you are not permitted to do even that. Hmmm. Maybe being a “Soccer Mom” isn’t that bad after all, when you put it in THAT perspective. And MAYBE you ought to change your thinking when it comes to men. Just a thought. Oh, and here’s one last one: I heartily suggest that all MEN boycott the products and services of any and all companies who feel that it is either “cute” or appealing to promote their firm, their products, their services in television ads that make MEN look like idiots and the women have all the sense. It’s time we make our influence (and spending power) FELT. Bill Peterseim

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  52. Crusty September 13, 2014 at 22:37 #

    Very well said

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  53. Billl Sanders September 14, 2014 at 05:08 #

    great comment Bill…

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  54. Peacock September 14, 2014 at 06:32 #

    Last time I checked, Hitler was a man.

    Saudi Arabia is the theocracy by Men, for men(women are the breeders)

    Red Army- Men who raped German women after fall of Berlin.

    If we recognise that women do not desire to be in martial conflicts and they are not physically capable and that they are more suitable in households- then why didn’t Hitler spare the Jewish and Slavic women?

    Why didn’t Soviets spare the German women when it was the German men who fought for the reich?

    These are not just some token examples. The fact is that they have occurred throughout history. Men fought for religion, gold and lands before and they fight for religion, oil and lands now.

    Or perhaps I’ve misunderstood JB’s post. Maybe she’s only referring to American men and not all men. After all, not all men are like that.

    @Scythian arrows- What exactly is the manly virtue?

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  55. Spaniard September 14, 2014 at 11:04 #

    Hitler invaded Poland and Russia due to need of “Lebensraum”. The need of Lebensraum t is female´s fault because they are giving birth nonstop like rabbits. They do not give a fuck (literally) about the economic situation or the lack of space. of couse, men should be more sensible too, and not surrender to female´s caprice of children.

    Most wars are promoted by women, like bullies in the high school are female´s henchmen.

    Hiter did a fantastic economical and cultural work in Germany. He should not kill 6 million jews. I agree with that. Would be enough to expropiate the big Jewish capital and expelling the Jews to other part of the world, like kings Fernando and Isabel did in Spain in XV Century.

    “Es muy jodío vivir bajo el judío” = “It sucks to live under the Jew”.

    Soviet soldiers in Gemany in 1945… what would you expect after Barbarossa Operation?

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  56. Spaniard September 14, 2014 at 11:08 #

    I forgot: “mommy issues”, “creeper”, “slob” and “frightened about mature, strong, independent women”.

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  57. Spaniard September 14, 2014 at 11:13 #

    And do not foget the biggest fans of Hitler in nazi Germany were women.

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  58. Spaniard September 14, 2014 at 11:25 #

    And Saudi Arabia… this is funny.

    i saw tons of European feminist female going to Islamic countries to shag with that handsome, manly, macho pig, islamic, Arab guys… in many cases having children with them, going to live with them not like girfriends but like concubines (and loving it), and even getting married to them… and then complaining about how macho pigs these Arab men are and buh, buh, buh, buh, Estrasburg rescue me, i want to go back home but not without my daughter, and European welfare State support me with my child, and blah, blah….

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  59. That_Susan September 14, 2014 at 12:55 #

    So German women were forcing their men to have sex because they wanted more and more and more babies? Men kept saying, “Let’s not shag so much because we don’t have enough space for more kids” — but the women just kept pushing and pushing and pushing for more sex? You see THIS as the cause of the Holocaust? Women being too eager for sex?

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  60. Spaniard September 14, 2014 at 13:12 #

    It is not cause of the Holocaust it is the cause of IIWW.

    German women being to eager for reproductive sex. Not just sex. And German men being weak and saying: “Ja, meine Liebe”.
    By the way… I do not understand that in a Lutheran country. In a Catholic one is te norm.

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  61. Spaniard September 14, 2014 at 13:12 #

    Too eager.

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  62. paulvzo September 14, 2014 at 13:17 #

    Every time Spaniard opens his cyber-mouth, we are reminded – there is no other way to say this – what a repulsive, mouth breathing, idiot he is. Not idiot for the positions he holds. But how he connects dots that don’t even exist.

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  63. Peacock September 14, 2014 at 13:30 #

    Are you a troll? If not, you’re in the wrong place.
    I suggest you go back to the websites which promote conspiracy theories or better yet, a website which will help you to self-diagnose psychiatric disorders.

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  64. Spaniard September 14, 2014 at 17:26 #

    Truth hurts.

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  65. Spaniard September 14, 2014 at 17:29 #

    I go to the bar, now,

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  66. Elliott Timmons September 21, 2014 at 04:32 #

    Peacock you are one fucking moron. Even your comment is pure bullshit,and hatred towards men,what does that have to do with this article? You are one illogical cunt! American cunts like you is the reason why I deal with Eastern European,Brazilian women only,and tell my fellow American men to do the same,leave all American women behind. Newsflash,men are needed more than women cuz women are pussies,and no protection,and men are the opposite. I’m a man myself,and if shit is going down,I want men to help me get out of it,not women! Women look out for themselves,men look out for each other in most cases!

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  67. Untame Able September 22, 2014 at 03:59 #

    The people who carried out the terrorism act were men. The people who protected your country to insure that you can live luxuriously, getting an education, venting your misplaced hate, driving cars, catching the bus, plans and trains, are also men. We die so that you can survive. Similar to the mantas theory.

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  68. Goober September 22, 2014 at 17:24 #

    Men commit more violent crimes than women. I don’t think that’s really in debate.

    The issue is that given the EXACT SAME violent crime, and woman will do less than half the time that a man will, for the same crime. I think that’s the point that your stats are trying to make.

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  69. Goober September 22, 2014 at 17:28 #

    OOOOHHH! Yay! One example contrary to the overriding point, supported by overwhelming evidence, and BAM!

    All other arguments are invalid, amirite?

    I hope you’re not stupid enough to turn the statements made above, saying “most women x…” into a statement falsifiable by one woman choosing to do so?

    You do understand how statistics work, don’t you?

    The fact that you can bring up an example of one woman doing something contrary to the overriding point of this article is meaningless. Saying “most women don’t become suicide bombers” or “most suicide bombers are men” is not statement that is made false by finding one example of a female suicide bomber.

    Until you can understand that, please, do us all a favor and butt out.

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  70. That_Susan September 22, 2014 at 17:49 #

    Maybe the shorter sentences help compensate for the fact that we reach our expiration date so much sooner than you. 🙂

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  71. inexorablefate September 24, 2014 at 20:29 #

    Yes, terrorist attacks are mostly done by men.

    So are, as our hostess pointed out, most heroics.

    Men (often supported by great women) are the ones who run into the fire to save lives of those they don’t even know. Men are willing to sacrifice their lives to save women and children–including those who aren’t even related to them–in a disaster situation. Men are the ones who take the risks, because it is who we are, written in our DNA just like cognitive dissonnance is written in the DNA of ‘feminist logic’.

    Most modern women are unwilling to sacrifice their time or effort to thanking men for their honorable treatment, nevermind their lives in the service of an ideal. That is why ‘male privilege’ exists. Because collectively, we have worked for, and earned it.

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  72. inexorablefate September 24, 2014 at 20:32 #

    Well said. My only bone is that feminism doesn’t choose the best of women to put forward, else they’d be commending the honeybadgers, and JB, and GWW, and all the other badass broads that give good men hope

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  73. inexorablefate September 24, 2014 at 20:39 #

    Jesus. If we’re going to play the “Why Game”, why does life exist? Why do lions eat gazelle? Why are dolphins beautiful?

    Some things just are. War happens, and it effects men and women equally. Humans are flawed, often stupid beings. You think war was waged purely for the privilege of raping the conquered’s womenfolk? No, it was/is not. War is waged for a plethora of reasons. Some are even good. It sucks, but humanity must take the brunt of collateral damage, men and women both.

    There will never be a perfect world, and no amount of bitching will change that

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