Newsgroups: soc.men
Subject: Re: Ann Landers Sexual Harassment article
From: rivero@mdcbbs.com
Date: 14 Aug 92 09:28:12 GMT
Organization: Electronic Data Systems, Unigraphics Division, Cypress CA
Nntp-Posting-User: royce

In article <32660052@hpmwmat.sr.hp.com>, mikep@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Mike Powell) writes:
> 
> 	
> 	I recently read a recent letter to Landers (I think it was in the
> 	Landers column) about a man that was in an airport waiting for
> 	a flight.   Among the other people waiting was a woman and her
> 	daughter.  The little girl was apparently misbehaving so the
> 	mother told her daughter that unless she behaved, "that man over
> 	there" (pointing to the writer of the letter) "will pick you
> 	up and throw you into the river!".   Obviously the woman said
> 	this loud enough for him to hear....
> 
> 	This made him uncomfortable to be used in this way, so he got up
> 	to find another place to sit.  As he stood up, the little girl
> 	freaked out.... screaming "Mommy, don't let him take me!".  The
> 	man was understandably pissed at this point and told the woman
> 	that she should be ashamed of herself for what she had done.
> 
> 	About this time, airport security shows up, and asks the woman
> 	if she wants the man arrested!
> 
> 
> 	There are so many important lessons in this story.  I wish I
> 	could find the original so I could post it...
> 

  Here's one most people don't think about. A man wants to be the
best husband and provider he can, so he works his way through
college, builds a career, maybe starts a business. He works hard
enough to trim several years off of his life (in the retirement "fun" years
to make it worse), but still that's a fair trade. Then, in order to
keep up the standard of living, he is willing to leave home and the ones
he loves every single day, and what does the wife do while
he's gone? Uses him as a threat!

  "Just wait 'til your father gets home". This line is so ingrained in
our society it was even used as the title for an animated family comedy
a few years back.

  I wonder how feminists would feel if, while they were at their jobs,
their husbands taught the children to be afraid of their eventual return home.
And yet women have been doing this to hard working men for years without
any thought to how it makes a man feel to know his children may fear him
without any cause at all, especially in light of the studies which show
most child physical abuse happens at the hands of the mother.






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