Role model for the disaffected
Misandry – hatred of men – is a new word for me. I’m adding it to my repertoire in recognition of the kind of men who stormed America’s Capitol the other day, defecating and tracking poo through several hallways.
Hatred is too vigorous a word for what I mean, which isn’t all men either, but the kind of bloke to whom an extra-long red tie draped over a large, white-shirted puku symbolises red-blooded masculinity, and who – as in hallways – mucks about with his own muck.
I hope the (fewer) female fanatics didn’t join in this demonstration of freedom, but my expectations are low in the case of the Washington insurrection.
What would such men’s mothers, sisters, wives, daughters, girlfriends say of acting like they did? Should medals be struck in their honour?
Donald Trump will be out of office in a few days’ time and will probably be too busy writing insulting messages to the new president to organise it.
By coincidence a young woman in France has just released a book titled I Hate Men.
That has caused a stir in a country where the literati are having trouble accepting that paedophilia is not just a charming, artistic quirk.
Writer Gabriel Matzneff was, until last year, lionised by powerful people in publishing, politics and business for years for his unabashed accounts of preying on schoolgirls in France, and 8-yearold boys in the Philippines.
He now faces court action, and feels sorry for himself, much as some French men say they have hurt feelings about the new book, which is a shame.
I agree. I Love Men would be more appreciative.
More on the male viewpoint: a Fox News reporter asked Trump’s campaign press secretary if Trump was feeling emasculated after the insurrection and facing a second impeachment.
Hogan Gidley replied that the president is ‘‘the most masculine person, I think, ever to hold the White House’’.
It took a man to come up with that, deadpan.
Petulant maybe, narcissistic definitely, destructive for sure – but masculine? Lol.
A person I’ve admired throughout the turbulent Trump years is Nancy Pelosi, the 80-yearold Democrat Speaker of the American House of Representatives.
She never lost her composure or moral compass in the chaos of the Trump presidency, and now drives his new impeachment.
For this she was singled out by a
60-year-old man called Richard ‘‘Bigo’’ Barnett, photographed with his feet on her desk, ‘‘scratching his balls’’ as he put it himself, and writing a note that read, ‘‘Bigo was here, you bitch.’’
Women will recognise the word men reserve for uppity women who don’t know their place, and Barnett is, chronologically, a grown man.
Shame he got the desk wrong. It
A person I’ve admired throughout the turbulent Trump years is Nancy Pelosi, the 80-year-old Democrat Speaker of the American House of Representatives.
wasn’t hers.
He faced a maximum of a year’s jail for his part in the insurrection until someone noticed he was carrying a stun gun.
That upped it to 10 years, which must make him slightly less pleased with himself.
If a certain kind of red-blooded man can actually be less pleased with himself, which I doubt.
Pauline Harmange, author of I Hate Men, says she offers a defence against misogyny, or the hatred of women, which I guess she believes is widespread: as evidence male violence against women is a disturbing pattern all over the world.
Trump has been a role model for the most disaffected people, racist, loutish, dishonest, simplistic like himself, who live in an alternate male reality.
The disturbing out-take is that openly biased media peddling lies and weird conspiracy theories on social media and the internet brought that mob in his support to Washington.
What did he and his droogs really think would come of it?
I’m guessing universal admiration.