On Women

Florence Nightingale 1820 - 1910

"Women have no sympathy . . . And my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. And it is so intimate too. Women crave for being loved, not for loving. They scream at you for sympathy all day long, they are incapable of giving any in return for they cannot remember your affairs long enough to do so."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"When a woman becomes a scholar there is usually something wrong with her sexual organs."

Rupert Hughes

"Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking."

Oscar Wilde

"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied." Erica Jong "Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilt and I'll show you a man."

Agatha Christie

"An archaeologist is best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her."

WC Fields

"Women are like elephants. Everyone likes to look at them but no-one likes to have to keep one."

Groucho Marx

"Women should be obscene and not heard." "A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke." "Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife."

Jeffrey Bernard

"Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor blades, and good standing among your friends'."

HL Mencken

"Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another."

Leo Tolstoy

"When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, 'Do what you like now'."

Leonardo Di Vinci

"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."

Lewis Grizzard

"I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house."

Aristotle

"The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men."

Tony Curtis

"I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife."

George Burns

"Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means."

Sacha Guitry

"When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."

Socrates

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."

Jimmy Durante

"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe."

The Masculist Trinity

Part I. THE MASCULIST MANIFESTO

BY Tom Smith (QIM) (MASCULIST@gmail.com)

Definition of Masculism: A men’s movement ideology that advocates for the abolition of
political and cultural assumptions of equality between sexes. A realistic approach to sex
differences that attempts to identify those differences and how they are best expressed in
the social and political melieu. Supports the establishment of a modern partriarchy and
assumes that we are now living in a matriarchy.

POLITICAL GOALS:

Elimination of discrimination based on sex in the
civil rights act of 1964.

Assumption of Father’s Custody instead of
Mother’s Custody. Father's custody will help reduce the divorce rate while
encouraging a positive view of men. Also ending provisions supported by government
for child support and instead replacing it with the government "safety net".

An end to drug and substance laws which victimize
men. Increase in government support for rehabilitating substance abusers.
Support of a government sponsored war to improve men's health.

Expansion of social programs and the
transformation of them using masculist approaches.

Re-masculinization of the military.

Encouragement of the use of Facilitated
Communication (FC) for people with autism, four out of five of which are male. FC is
presently banned in most places which effectively muzzles men with autism.

Criminal justice laws to be liberalized to end
unnescessary long sentences and provide humane prisons and rehabilitative programs.
Added legal protections to avoid innocent people being accused and prosecuted for sex
offenses.

Support for the legal freedom to express
religious sentiments and knowledge in public forums within the spirit of the Constitution.

The elimination of feminist laws and programs of
the past thirty years.

The abolition of abortion.

Masculism
Outline

QIMNews Men

Position Statement

August 21, 2001

By Tom Smith (QIM)

In the Fall of '99 I published and discussed on all the major men's forums the
"Masculist Manifesto" (http://www.geocities.com/qim/manifestohtml.htm)

It is a statement of the political objectives of Masculism.

Now it's time to present a proposal for a comprehensive view of Masculism, not just
it's political objectives. Since the publishing of the Manifesto, and I suggest because of
it, there is more discussion of masculism and people calling themselves
"Masculist" on the net. It's time to clarify Masculism.

Masculism isn't feminism in pants. The only thing in common with feminism is that it's
an ideology (defined: "The body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations
of an individual, group, class or culture"). An "ideology" for men is long
overdue.

CRITICAL IDEAS THAT COMPRISE MASCULISM

RELIGIOUS

Men have a more pronounced spirituality which has caused them to create religions which
in turn has led to creating civilizations. This is a fact of history and a great pride of
men that shouldn't be demeaned or ignored by society. Masculism therefore
acknowledges and respects religion as critical to many men's lives.

POLITICAL

Anyone advocating men's interests in the political realm is a "Masculist" if
he fulfills the goal of destroying feminism (mandated sexual equality), serves to promote
men and conforms to addressing justice and fairness issues for men and their families.

PSYCHOLOGICAL

Masculism promotes the psychological interests of men, meaning that men's masculine
nature is encouraged to be studied, expressed, and for society to make the necessary
adjustments for men to live full masculine lives. "Social construction" theories
(feminist theory) in the social sciences are to be resisted. Special attention needs to be
given to all media to promote a masculist view of men and encourage a more critical
examination of women. Thirty years of feminism has produced a white washing of women in
the media and a demonization of men and masculinity.

CULTURAL

A cultural goal is to establish a linkage to the different classes of men. Presently we
live in a modified matriarchy where women represent the lower classes of men and are
co-power brokers with the corporate class of men. Men need to assume the "co-power
broker" function.

ECONOMIC

An arrangement will need to be worked out between the lower classes of men and the
controlling economic interests as embodied in the corporate male elite. The latter
presently support and endorse feminism because it has been in their economic interests.
Masculism supports free enterprise, but also sees social programs as desirable regulatory
mechanisms, much as we now have for our economic and other interests. A healthy free
enterprise system is a prerequisite for effective social programs and therefore social
programs should not overburden those systems. Masculism endorses remedial use of social
programs and governemnt policies to correct the civil rights and economic injustices to
men under thirty years of feminism.

SEXUAL EGALITARIANISM

Men and women aren't LEGALLY equal. To be "legally" equal requires that sex
differences be no greater than racial differences. This linkage of racism to sexism is the
slight of hand that feminism has used to obscure the truth. The difference between the
sexes are much greater than that between the races, and cannot be "socially
constructed" out of existence, nor can they be made equal by laws. The posture of
"mandating sexual equality" has skewed the whole population away from honestly
dealing with sex differences and has resulted in a deteriorating realationship between the
sexes. A primary goal of Masculism is to repeal all laws mandating sexual equality, which
will also eliminate the corrosive effects of feminist advocacy on the population.
Egalitarianism is another matter and Masculism encourages a further develpment of
egalitarianism. Understanding sex differences is critical for every aspect of life and
should be studied and government policies should conform to what we learn.

Tom Smith (QIM)

The American Union of Men (AUM) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aum

Part III: Masculist Economics

Opportunity for Women

Masculism supports opportunity for women. This
idea is critical not only for practical reasons, but because it is based on the profound
spiritual experience I had in the early nineties as delineated in my book "QIM
Tunes". All masculist governmental policies are not to interfere with women's
opportunities, but neither will masculism support any legislated "forced
equality" for women.

Men and the Public Sector

With the repeal of sexual equality laws (a
crtical element in masculism) the full weight of government policy will be brought on the
issue of male opportunity, meaning that hiring and contracts will require at least as many
men hired as women. Under feminism the government has become a huge job program for women
and this has to end. Using government contracts will also help encourage the hiring of men
in the private sector.

Tax Policy

Tax policy will be used to compensate men for
their greater general contributions to society through innovation and a myriad of other
talents from men that societies throughout history have depended on for progress. It also
acknowledges and makes room for inequalities in family life that require men to carry a
large part of the economic burdens for marriage and family. If women want opportunity,
they will need to get it at a price. I envision taxes being comenserately more for women,
especially as they go up the pay scale. In this way we can maintain opportunity for women
while the society is adequately compensated for their participation. Conversely, men will
pay much less in taxes, especially those in the lower earning brackets, with the poorest
recieving a "stipend" from the government.

Men in Poverty

Masculism supports capitalism, but a social
democratic form of capitalism of a masculist nature. The helping and teaching professions
need to have at least an equal amount of male workers, and with the stipend mentioned
above for poorer male workers, this becomes a more attractive alternative for men.

Unions

I propose one other economic innovation for men
and that is all male unions that advocate for their male workers in areas of opportunity,
working conditions vis a vis women and in general tax policies as they effect men. I see
this as a new construct that also complements and works with the present union system. It
is to reinforce the "opposition party", whether that is the democratic party or
another party in oppositon to the present majority republican party, the latter of which I
suspect will advocate the interests of women and the corporate elite as they presently do.

Summary

The other non economic areas of American Life are
well covered for both sexes through the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Other
specific areas of Masculist advocacy and approach are covered in the first two parts of
the Masculist Triology...the Manifesto and Outline.

Tom Smith

The American Union of Men (AUM)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aum