In 2013, more than 1,600 women in the United States were murdered by men. Of those women, 94% knew their murderer. The most common murder weapon was a gun—and women are most at risk when they leave their abusers (and begin to regain their power). (Alternet, August 12, 2016.)But despite such things PCG's 1% seems content in trying to convince their male readers that independent and empowered women are some kind of threat to their manhood as may be seen in the cover for the March 2013 issue of their recruitment magazine. It accompanies an article by Joel Hilliker.
This cover is designed to make male readers feel "victimized" by empowered women. The independent women is portrayed as a threat to the man. This is a terrible message to men.
Rather empowered women are vitally necessary and women deserve to be treated and respected as equals. Empowerment for women is something that needs to be embraced and celebrated. It is wrong for the empowerment of women to be portrayed as some kind of emasculating threat to men.
Women deserve to be treated and respected as equals. It is honorable for men to give women the respect they deserve as equals instead of leaving them in some kind of subordinate position.
Somehow, there are always going to be people who are irrationally intimidated by the strengths of others, strengths which they believe should not be allowed to exist, but
ReplyDeletesomehow do, meaning that they are forced to deal with them. By this point in time, all of those involved in Armstrongism surely must realize that there are thousands of women who have served in the military, or served as police officers, and these ladies can kick most mens' asses, and are not intimidated by them.
My last wife was a tough gal. One Saturday afternoon, years ago, we noticed that some new people were moving into the neighborhood. The guy, as he was taking his Harley off the truck, was trying to look all bad, and was revving the bike through straight pipes and looking around to see if any of the neighbors looked impressed. I reached in my pocket, pulled out my keys, and flipped them to my wife. "Here, Babe, take a ride!" was all I said. She knew we were indulging in street theatre, and got a big smile on her face. And then she fired up our bike and went to the store. Our message to this new neighbor was that a lady could do what he thought was so bad. After several weeks, we actually became good friends with that couple, and we all ended up doing the Laughlin Run together.
The only environment in which aquired or developed strengths in a lady would not be viewed as an asset would be an artificially contrived atmosphere such as an ACOG. If these guys' Petra fantasies were ever to come true, it's the families with the tough gal mothers that would be envied. They're like the pioneers that founded our country. So many cross-threaded thoughts exist in Armstrongism!
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PS ~ I wonder whose wife they had dress up in an illegal pants suit, and paint her nails to pose for the cover shot! That's probably the only joy the poor woman has had from her mode of attire in her entire adult life.
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Thank you for sharing your story on this blog. It is much appreciated.
DeleteAnd in regards to who the woman on the cover may happen to be I wish I knew. The recruitment magazine lists it as a "Trumpet photo" on the contents page.
DeleteIt comes as no surprise to any of us that PCG ministry is worried about the gender gap. They never could handle strong women who indeed are equal with their husbands. The antiquated version of male leadership where women 'just' accepted their roles at home was the phantasy-utopia for weak men...
ReplyDeleteFlurry and his minions never cease to amaze us. They haven't changed one iota :'-(
It is terrible that some in PCG's 1% choose to lead their male readers to view strong, independent women as a threat to their masculine identity.
DeleteThe thing is, if they see these ladies as being a threat, and can't adapt and put together a new situation respecting and capitalizing on those strengths, they're pretty lame to start with.
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