November 10, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

Excerpt from The War on Women:

Compare the raw numbers. In the same seven-year period when 4,588 U.S. soldiers and police officers were killed by hostiles or by accident, more than 8,000 women – nearly twice as many – were shot, stabbed, strangled, or beaten to death by the intimate males in their lives. In Canada, compared to the 101 Canadian soldiers and police officers killed, more than 500 women – nearly five times as many – met the same fate….

Original article (Toronto Star, Nov. 3, 2007)

It is a common and cheap propaganda trick by feminists to make such comparisons in successful efforts to draw attention to “women’s plight”.

In my mind, but not in the mind of many readers of the article, the comparison of all of the wars is wrong, for as long as the “war on women” is compared to other causes of fatalities that are completely incompatible and even incomparable. If there must be a “war on women”, then let’s compare its consequences to the consequences of the “war on men”.

The whole feminist argument vanishes as soon as one makes the correct comparison, that of comparing the plight of women with that of the plight of men. When that is done, a totally different picture - the true one - is immediately apparent.

Women live on average (in the whole world) five more years than men do, 10 to 12 more years in the member countries of the former communist block, 7 more years in socialistic Canada, and 6 more years in the not yet so socialistic USA.

There is no biological reason at all for that large and still growing gender gap in the life expectancies of the sexes. The reason for men dying sooner than women do is simply the consequence of society’s “war on men”. However, for anyone, including feminists, it is wrong to make use of hyperbole like that. The phrase “war on men” is wrong and the phrase “discrimination against men” must be substituted.

When it comes to the respective sexes losing their lives in the real wars that are being fought right now, the Toronto Star article already fails to make any comparison at all. There is a very good reason for that. The proportions of men and women dying in combat always differed. Let’s face it, there are three major reasons for that. Firstly, men are expendable and women need to be protected. Secondly, no woman in her right mind will want to be equal to men to the extent that she is as likely to die as men are. Thirdly, no man in his right mind will let any woman expose herself to risks such as those he must take.

Not all that long ago virtually no women died in combat. Combat fatalities were comprised almost exclusively of men (e. g.: 58,169 American servicemen and 8 American servicewomen died in Vietnam). That has changed now, but true equality between the sexes in the area of combat in war is far from being reached and probably will never be reached. The latest figures I saw on that indicate that less than one woman died in combat for every ten men who did so.

But let’s go one step farther into an area where affirmative hiring of women has made greater inroads into equality of the sexes. All feminist assertions to the contrary, even though virtually equal numbers of men and women work in the service professions (police, protective services, guards, firefighting ) in the US, in the years from 1992 through 2001, 262 women and 4,774 men had fatal occupational injuries (details).

That is a ratio of one woman for every 18.2 men, not too different from the average of men’s and women’s respective fatalities in the general job market, where the ratio is one women fatality for slightly less than every 19 men fatalities.

Most interestingly, those ratios have seen no change for as long as statistics have been kept. There is absolutely no indication of any change at all, even though one would expect one, especially when having been indoctrinated by feminist propaganda to the contrary throughout most of one’s life.

Now let’s look at murder victims. The proportions differ a little from country to country but have remained virtually unchanged over the years. For example, in the US, for every woman who got murdered there were about 5.8 men who met their demise in that fashion.

The conclusion: “The War on Women” is another feminist hoax. The truth is that anti-male discrimination is extensive and seriously deadly for men, not for women.

–Walter

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November 10, 2007 by Walter Schneider.

Fathers for Life
Walter Schneider

Tomorrow we celebrate Remembrance Day in Canada and in other countries of the Commonwealth, a day to remember those who died fighting for home and country, or, as the case may be, for King and country or, as needed, for the motherland (e. g.: Russia) or for the fatherland (e. g.: Germany).

Yes, even in Germany there is such a thing as Remembrance Day. It was declared as an official day of celebration in 1816, by order of the Prussian King Frederic William III. He designated the last Sunday preceding the first Advent to be a day of remembrance of those who deceased during the preceding year. It is popularly called Totensonntag (Sunday of the Dead).

Remembrance Day or Sunday of the Dead, we mourn those who died, regardless of their sex, and the memory of war never leaves those who actively participated in one or often in more than one, either as soldiers or as civilians who lived through war. Officially though, Germany does not engage much in the military ceremonies and show of regalia that are a major part of Remembrance-Day-like activities in English-speaking countries. There are other differences.

Germany gave a military emphasis to the Sunday of the Dead only when its totalitarian regimes were actively engaged in war, necessarily so, because it lost the lives of many millions of soldiers during those wars. After all, the Sunday of the Dead is in remembrance of those who died during the year gone by, and during a given past year in war, the vast majority of the dead were soldiers.

Although the Sunday of the Dead is and always was gender-neutral, Remembrance Day once rightfully wasn’t but now is gender-neutral, too. That is curious but politically correct.

Nevertheless, objectively, it always was and still is so, that soldiers who died in war were and still are almost without exception men. The alleged advance of the equality of the sexes does not yet and probably never will extend to have women soldiers die in numbers that even remotely approach the number of men soldiers who die in war; not even in Israel. Men are expendable, women are to be protected. It always was and always will remain so, notwithstanding all feminist claims to the contrary.

I don’t want to write here about those thoughts for too long, as I did so already some years ago and recently expanded on them a little more in To Preserve and Protect, an essay on the changing role of women in war, on the economics and roots of war, and on the male sacrificial premium.

To Preserve and Protect recently rose to prominence on the website of Fathers for Life and on the Internet. It presently attracts about one tenth of the visitors who come daily to the website. It ranks in 18th place of 330,000 entries on the search-return list for a google-search for “to preserve and protect”. [As of Nov. 14, 2007, that was in 5th place of about 718,000]

Curiously, almost exclusively only the first page of the set of five pages is being visited, but most of the visitors to that page stayed long enough to read all of it. That is not because most people actually read the page. It is because people are more interested in pictures than they are in words. The picture at the right is the one that drew all of the attention. Let no one have any illusions that the attention that picture got by hundreds of visitors a day will last throughout the whole year.

The attention the picture received began on Nov. 3 and will end a few days after Remembrance Day. In comparison, women attract far more attention than dead men who died by the millions for home and country will.

The picture of the anorexic body builder that is shown here attracts many more visitors each day than the soldiers’ graves do, and it attracts that attention - ever-increasing amounts of it - every day, 365 days a year, year after year.

It is too bad for those who took the trouble to read only the first page of To Preserve and Protect at F4L. Whether they are feminists or not, they missed out on some very surprising truths about war.

Yes, men and women do live in very different realities, and, no, women do not get the short end of the stick, but women do claim to be the victims.  Are they?  Really?

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