Feminist Author: Men are Indispensable, so Give Them Credit

Feminist author Camille Paglia wrote two paragraphs that are amazing — both in their common sense and the bravery required to speak common sense in today’s nutty world.

Paglia, who grapples with some of the hard issues of our time, recently wrote about men.  Yes, men.  You know, those testosterone soaked alpha people that just exude toxic masculinity when you look at them?  Well, she thinks women should start appreciating them instead of mocking them for their strength.

First, she points out that men do hard jobs that require strength, by using this pretty amazing chart:

After reading that data, she wrote this:

Men are absolutely indispensable right now, invisible as it is to most feminists, who seem blind to the infrastructure that makes their own work lives possible. It is overwhelmingly men who do the dirty, dangerous work of building roads, pouring concrete, laying bricks, tarring roofs, hanging electric wires, excavating natural gas and sewage lines, cutting and clearing trees, and bulldozing the landscape for housing developments (see table above). It is men who heft and weld the giant steel beams that frame our office buildings, and it is men who do the hair-raising work of insetting and sealing the finely tempered plate-glass windows of skyscrapers 50 stories tall.

Every day along the Delaware River in Philadelphia, one can watch the passage of vast oil tankers and towering cargo ships arriving from all over the world. These stately colossi are loaded, steered and off-loaded by men. The modern economy, with its vast production and distribution network, is a male epic, in which women have found a productive role — but women were not its author. Surely, modern women are strong enough now to give credit where credit is due!

George Orwell put it best, when he wrote, “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”  It’s so gratifying to see Paglia doing some of that common sense, revolutionary truth-telling.

Image Credit: Old Cooper River Bridge

Hat Tip: AEI