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Violent Femmes: Steve Moxon’s provocative assault on feminism seeks to change people’s minds about who’s been oppressing whom all this time. (Iain Macwhirter, 2/23/08, Sunday Herald)

STEVE MOXON is a brave man. The Woman Racket, his new book, is a sustained and intemperate assault on the conventional wisdom that women have been disadvantaged and discriminated against by a male-dominated patriarchy. In publishing it he risks incurring the wrath not only of the women's movement, but of the entire female race with his anti-feminist epistle.

Moxon argues that it's men who are discriminated against in the workplace, separated from their children, neglected by the health service, wrongly accused of abuse and rape and effectively robbed of their legal rights. Domestic violence? It's mainly women who abuse men, he says. "Not only are women responsible for most domestic violence, but they also account for most of the initiation."

The fact that women get 20% less pay than men? Not nearly enough, he says. "Not only is the pay gap not due to discrimination, but that it's as low as it is indicates sex discrimination against men." Besides, he thinks women don't do well in high-status jobs because of their "brain patterning" and because their brains are 10% smaller than men's. Nor are they motivated to compete for the best-paid jobs, because they are not biologically equipped for it. "Only 5% of women want careers," he says.

On the other hand, they dress like tramps, put out like harlots and you no longer have to marry them or take care of their kids. They're oppressing themselves.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 22, 2008 12:00 AM