Wednesday, Jul 9, 2008
Re-waging the battle of the sexes; vouchers won't fix our schools.
May 19, 1999 | The humiliation of Bryan Winter
BY GENTRY LANE
(05/11/99)
As a heterosexual male, the phrase "archetypically arrogant male brush-off" got me steamed.
Yes, the story sounds like a hoax, and yes, Gentry Lane grasps the craziness of the medium quite eloquently, but I'm offended how all judgment on the women who fervently condemn Bryan is brushed off. They have a lot of nerve sitting on their moral high horse and rallying around their "sister" just because she cries "foul" at a guy during courtship rituals. These women should be told loudly to grow up. If "overworked young professional" women are so persecuted in the club scene, they should stop going so there's more room at the bar for me and my friends. In the meantime, try building substantive personalities instead of dolling up the role of "victim" in the battle of the sexes.
I understand this sounds harsh. I know you can give me 1,001 reasons why women have it worse, but I am absolutely fed up with the bashing of the male as this brutish, emotionally barren engine of destruction, incapable of giving or seeking fulfillment, and out to break women's hearts and ego. It is easily as insulting as saying "you're just a girl" or "all women cannot drive."
-- Jeff Patterson
Hartford, Conn.
Thank you for the piece about Bryan White's humiliation. I found it viscerally satisfying and therapeutic to hear what happened to this egomaniac. It's not spiritual or kind of me, but I hope he's real. I have received messages that make this one, real or fictional, sound like something written by Emily Post. I did the personal ad thing and could not believe the lack of couth that is out there. One fellow offered to send his photo and I received a lovely visual of a gigantic male appendage.
-- Theodora Knight
Ventura, Calif.
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