The emasculation is done

An unpopular truth

[Reprinted from Issues & Views June 30, 2003]

Isn't it amazing how little time it took for what was recently considered feminist extremism to become acceptable and even the norm? And not acceptable to just politically liberal types, but to good, "old-fashioned" conservative types as well.

For months, R. Cort Kirkwood has been expressing his very candid opinions about women in the military. On June 2, 2003, we noted one of his articles in which he asked some pertinent questions about where this nation is headed as it sends hundred-pound girls, barely out of pigtails, off to war.

Well, for his cogent, frank and very sane observations, he is being blitzed by angry e-mail respondents, many of whom do not appear to fall into the anything-goes liberal category. Would you believe retired military men? For his belief that the front line is no place for women and especially mothers of young children, Kirkwood has been reviled as a "communist" and "pond scum." He's been told his type "should be shot." In "The Military vs. Free Speech," published on the Lew Rockwell site, he calls the response "feral hysterics" and writes:

More significantly, the most reactionary mail came from active-duty or retired soldiers, particularly men. They wonder what’s wrong with a mother's leaving a child behind. Feminist brainwashing complete, these men don’t see the difference between a man and a woman, or a mother and a father, or the stark evil of sending a woman into harm’s way. The emasculation is done.

Now, let's see, how long did that take? In 1970, there was the first Women's Liberation march down Fifth Avenue in New York City. Even though feminist demands had been trickling out into the air before that date, 1970 pretty much marks the beginning of serious demands from women activists for the government to get involved in social engineering in behalf of women.

And as each demand found its way into the public's consciousness, meeting first with consternation, sometimes with ridicule, and then with concern, one thing was certain. There would be no messing with the military--social engineering would stop at the door of the military camp. If all others gave way, that was the center that would hold. Ha!

Kirkwood quotes one of these noble military men, who followed his insulting e-mailed words to him with these: "Moms deserve the right to serve the country in any way the nation needs them. No one should be excused from the front lines."

"This, friends," concludes Kirkwood, "is the American man."

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