Letters to the Editor
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Victimology
101 — I've had some excitement over the past couple of days.
I recently changed jobs; actually this is my first week back at a
previous job in response to an aggressive offer from a former boss.
There
is now a female engineer in the department who has been there about 6-8
months. She tries to pretend she's doing very high level work and
treats the rest of us condescendingly. I understand several people
have complained about her abrasive personality. Anyway, I was talking
with another guy yesterday afternoon when this woman interrupted us to
offer her assistance in getting me "up to speed", and began chiding the
other guy for not consulting her to teach him his job. Maybe she
was trying to be helpful, but tactlessly, and the guy didn't like it.
He finally changed the subject abruptly by asking about her recent surgery.
I didn't like being interrupted either, but wanted to try to diffuse the
situation, so without thinking carefully, I jokingly blurted, "Are you
going to show us your scar?" I sensed trouble from her immediate
reaction. Today she told Bob, our boss that I offended her.
Bob dutifully talked to each of us individually, reminding us to be careful
not to say anything someone might find offensive.
Late
this afternoon, the woman confronted me directly about my misbehavior.
Even after my profuse apology, she kept nagging about how inappropriate,
unfunny and unprofessional my comment was, and how she didn't appreciate
the other guy's amused reaction to it, until finally I lost patience.
I told her I considered it unprofessional for a "professional" to tattle
on others and make a stink over such a trivial issue. Perhaps I should
have offered to let her chop off a couple of my fingers or my tongue.
I've
heard about incidents such as this and been curious about how ridiculous
an extent they might go. Maybe I'll get fired tomorrow. Maybe
I'll go to prison. It will be fun to watch developments.
— Steve; Fremont, California
Beware
of the feminazis.
— editor
(Received by e-mail)
Of
course it is correct that in society, we need to curb our 'naturally' bad
behavior. We should not use filthy language in mixed company, for
example. But today's feminists, big-brother liberals, and PC advocates
always seem to push for bringing the sexes together into situations that
common sense and our understanding of the differences between men &
women would advise us to be artificially volatile. To suggest that
women should be, e.g., in foxholes during wars, in submarines, and even
as part of fire-brigades and police forces, is to demonstrate the intelligence
of a ... well, of a ninny goat. My strong belief — not easily proved
— is that, if a social structure goes too far in obliterating the NATURAL
distinctions between the sexes, because of a false sense of political equality,
the natural proclivity that normal men have to respect and protect women
will eventually deteriorate and an unwholesome competitiveness and resentment
against women will set in and will eventually injure, not only women, but
future generations of children, of both sexes. It is already considered
in many quarters, and by many famous "role model" personalities, de
trop for a woman to need a father for her child and for her
child's upbringing. [We need not even bring up the issues of shame
and social disapproval; such antediluvian sensibilities have already
been cast aside a generation or more ago!] Fortunately, not all women
are as unaware as the feminists seem to be of where the feminist bandwagon
is really heading. Many are rebelling, as the recent popularity of
the book by Laura Doyle seems to indicate. That book — The Surrendered
Wife: A Practical Guide to Finding Intimacy, Passion, and Peace With
a Man — which seems to advocate (I've not read the book, only several
reviews) that a woman need not become an Archie Bunker within a marriage
relationship to gain some level of respect and independence from her husband,
is now being viciously attacked by the liberal and feminist intellectuals.
In principle, carefully studying human nature can be very instructive and
beneficial to the resolution of our many social problems.
— Ted; somewhere in California
Dear Readers
My
situation isn't so good nowadays. I need cash contributions or pledges.
Is anybody willing to help?
— editor
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