Word: mens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of Bourke's statements are extreme: "For men, combat was the male equivalent of childbirth ...the experience seemed to resemble spiritual enlightenment or sexual eroticism: indeed, slaughter could be likened to an orgasmic, charismatic experience." She supports her position with letters, memoirs, reports and diaries from Australian, American and British soldiers documenting their experiences in both World Wars and Vietnam...
...Killing itself could be seen as an act of carnival: combat gear, painted faces, and the endless refrain that men had turned into 'animals' were the martial equivalent of the carnival mask." Such radical interpretations might fit certain situations and the experiences of individual soldiers, but when Bourke tries to generalize, her argument collapses. The quotations she cites often seem to be taken out of context and deformed by her interpretations...
...killing and, when forced to kill, experience stages of thrill, remorse and rationalization. Bourke focuses on only one of these stages of emotion, thrill, ignoring the others. Similarly, she completely neglects John Keegan's The Face of Battle and mentions Richard Holmes's Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle only in passing. Bourke's failure to discuss such important works on warfare undermines her credibility...
Women like Williams have taught me that feminism has little to do with anger and nothing to do with hate. The cause does not concern placing blame on men as a gender, it concerns a female's reconciliation to herself, her self-identification and her self-love. It concerns my right to choose what I want to look like, what I want to be when I grow up, and how I get to then from now and from before...
...lesbian music" knows how hard it is to be a woman, it doesn't seem as though enough others understand. Most non-feminists argue that its paradoxical for feminists to preach equality and diversity while celebrating women's studies and women's rights. After all, there are no men's studies or men's rights movements that have made a splash in the same way. My only response is that that's a shame. No female singer I have encountered, from Janis Ian to Joni Mitchell to Ani DiFranco, has ever said that being a man is any easier, just...