Piling On
Here is a blogger currently enjoying a pile on in the Blogosphere due to this entry:
MeNoT'inkFeminismSoGoodForMakeSonsToHuntWoollyMammoth
This is my favourite paragraph because he thinks he's being flattering and not triple XXX offensive to women who like to think of themselves as people and not figments of some Bloggerman's teeny tiny imagination:
Women have played the most important part in our civilization, having raised the children of billions of human beings throughout our planetary history. In each and every culture, the mother is a symbolic and archetypal image of supreme importance. The reverence for which we have of mothers is unsurpassed, and not merely because of our own, but because we understand the importance they play in the lives of our children will determine the importance of our society as a future. I have a strong respect for women, perhaps not shown in my previous articles, because I know that they are able to do what I cannot as a man. I do not say that their biological abilities are alone what distinguishes their uniqueness, but that I admire the love they represent, and the irrepressible image that is the sanctity of the mother which births innocence into a cynical world. It is in motherhood I find the inspiration for our planet, for the hope of a new life, the potential of that creation is utterly compelling. For this reason, I hope that women cherish the gift and the power they have to literally change the world this way.
Dude, I dare you - tell that story at the next Barren Spinsters Anonymous meeting.
