Title from a Henry Higgins quote in My Fair Lady
By Matt K
Sometimes on our travels across the far reaches of cyberspace, we chance upon a story that encapsulates the very essence of what we are trying to say. Here is such a story. It is, perhaps, the single best possible rebuttal against feminist claims that the reason that almost everything around us was invented by men is due to women having been discriminated against:
According to a study* by AC Nielsen, 70% of women in India just can’t afford sanitary napkins and resort to using dirty rags, newspapers, dried leaves, and even ashes during their periods. Now you would have thought that there were few areas of life, if any, where women had a stronger incentive to invent a solution, of a problem common so many women and having existed for so long as to provide a huge pool of potential inventors, or which, except in the most indirect way, men could, if they chose, ignore, or where women’s direct and recurrent experience, and their ability to talk to other ‘sufferers’ about such a sensitive matter gave them a greater headstart over men, and yet despite all these advantages, it took not a women but a man to solve the problem. A man, I might add, whose sisters refused to help him, whose wife abandoned him (…until he became successful/famous of course), and even whose own mother left him, but who still persevered. This story really does have it all.
Gentlemen, from Fast Company magazine:
An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry
* According to “Sanitation protection: Every Women’s Health Right,” a study by AC Nielsen
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Yeah just wait till the feminists put their spin on it. The women in India were clearly too oppressed to do anything about it and their menstruation wasn’t celebrated as the beautiful gift of nature that it is so they had to hide in shame blah blah blah…
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While I approve of his inventiveness, persistence, sneakiness and all that I still feel that trying to make life better for women is a wasted effort.
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“A man, I might add, whose sisters refused to help him, whose wife abandoned him (…until he became successful/famous of course), and even whose own mother left him, but who still persevered. ”
AWALT.
The man was seen as guilty of trying to decode the female for the masses. Kind of diluting the “mystique” of women that keeps men manipulated for generations.
As someone once said, “All women play for Team-Women” regardless of familial associations
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What next ? Avenger a Brit, menstruation with blood clotted leaves in the crotch of some indian bints trollies. All I need now is for Firepower to show up !
I am going for a lie down.
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That article was really funny. It also profiled a common almost purely male character focus and drive to find a solution to a problem. Most women definitely don’t have the moral courage and discipline as men do to keep fighting and struggling a long-time making self-sacrifice for strangers.
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Wow. This is just outlandish. I just posted an article on my blog about essentially the same matter.
1.) The general tampon was *not* invented by a woman, rather by a man (Dr. Earle Haas) in 1931 (there were prior proto-forms of tampons invented by the old Greeks & Egyptians).
2.) The forceps – an instrument aiding with birth (by spreading the vagina) was also invented by a man – notwithstanding the fact that women had thousands of years of experiences (working as midwives, giving birth themselves).
3.) During the later 19th century women were highly schooled and educated in playing music instruments (piano etc.) yet never managed to create anything truly meaningful. Yet uneducated, recently freed black *men* created Blues, Jazz etc.
http://umslopogaas.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/sex-gender-lies-why-men-women-are-different-and-equality-is-impossible/
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Why the hell would this guy still want to do all this stuff for women,(i.e. create employment oppurtunities, help solve their problems, etc..) when the ungrateful wenches have done NOTHING to make his life any easier or support him in any way? Has to be capitalism and/or the ability to have social mobility.
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Whoa! Slow down guys here we have a female inventor of sorts.
Woman caught making meth inside Walmart
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2072133/Woman-caught-making-meth-inside-Walmart-I-broke-buy-chemicals.html
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Wwwwwwwwwwwow.
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BSimpson
“Why the hell would this guy still want to do all this stuff for women”
Maybe he was just sick and tired of standing on blood clotted leaves and rags ?
Hot debate. What do you think?
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As you can see, It takes man to do a woman’s job
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oddsock
“Maybe he was just sick and tired of standing on blood clotted leaves and rags ?”
Hah! Maybe!
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I was actually going to post this same story when I saw it yesterday but got caught up with stuff.
It really is a interesting story, especially considering how he started this all to make his wifes life better and then she leaves him….then he becomes rich and gains status and she comes crawling back.
The thing I thought was really interesting/funny was how he went and started polling nursing students about it and his wife got pissed thinking that he was trying to cheat on her……
Just goes to show that you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t as a man.
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Fascinating example of a one man’s resourcefulness in solving a problem.
He should take it one step further and make his napkins totally biodegradable. Then they could be used for both soil enhancement and fertilizer. There’s a lot of nitrogen and iron in all that blood. For third world countries it could go a long way towards feeding their population.
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oddsock : “Maybe he was just sick and tired of standing on blood clotted leaves and rags ?”
Maybe he was sick of all his mismatched socks.
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Of course women wouldn’t have invented it.
When they’re not on their periods they’re not thinking abour their periods, and when they’re on their periods they’re too distracted, upset or hysterical to focus.
Only a man who keeps getting sent to the 24 hour pharmacy to buy sanitary napkins for his wife, would find a solution.
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“Maybe he was sick of all his mismatched socks.”
Hahaha, please, warn before posting these things so I don’t risk dying chocking in our own endless laugh.
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Did you guys read the article? Did you see what ultimately happened to his marriage?
He “won his wife back”. Ohhhhh, isn’t that precious?
His wife left him when times were tough but now that it’s raining silver coins, she’s back in his arms again.
Such love, such devotion, such loyalty.
I’m so choked up by this story, I have to go the bathroom and PUKE my guts out ^_^
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It is sad. Women are intellectually lazy and dishonest, to the extreme. Feminists appear to be the worst.
Giving women a public voice can be likened to making the village idiot the town crier.
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Venom Froggy wrote:
His wife left him when times were tough but now that it’s raining silver coins, she’s back in his arms again.
One would think he lost her because he was a shiftless alcoholic or had gone to prison for armed robbery.
I’m so choked up by this story, I have to go the bathroom and PUKE my guts out ^_^
That bit of spin control can do that to a man.
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@keyster:
I must say…reading your comments is always one of the highlights of browsing through ‘the Spearhead’.
You really should start blogging. You have a sharp mind and a clear and succinct understanding of what’s going on.
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Great article just one nitpicking fix; (women=plural, woman=singular)
“it took not a womAn but a man to solve the problem. A man, I might add, whose sisters refused to help him, whose wife abandoned him (…until he became successful/famous of course), and even whose own mother left him, but who still persevered. This story really does have it all”
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Interesting that a typical feminist, UN or women’s solution to that problem would be to just shame people and beg money to buy new tampons, effectively making the women dependent on the begging.
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Nah, you guys got it all wrong. He’s exploiting women by taking advantage of their female problem. He invented the story about his wife and female relatives not helping him. No way could a man come up with a solution for this female need. And his wife left him because he was beating her.
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/sarcasm
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A man willing to bleed (Literally!) to solve a women’s problem.
Sigh, he somehow reminds me of myself, when I was young and stupid.
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I don’t think you got that quite right. Menstrual blood doesn’t brings life, it’s just a byproduct of not bringing life. And it sure smells like death to me.
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@ Uncle Elmer December 22, 2011 at 15:21
Maybe she was USING his mismatched socks!…?
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“I found out that these napkins were made of cellulose derived from the bark of a tree,” he said
So how is that much different from the leaves and bark the girls were using for free?:)
“According to her, rural women are clueless as to how to use them……….. haha
And some of you probably didn’t believe me when I said that females didn’t even know that sex caused pregnancy lol
OK Henry, this should be the mrm theme song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doz5w2W-jAY
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@Lara (another one)
Bingooo!
You go, grrrl!
“Men loathe and despise menstrual blood.”
You have just invented (pun intended) a whole new frontier for Women Empowerment movement!
After the age of “SlutWalk”, let there now be the era of
TAMPOOON PRIDE PARADE!
P.S. Take cover, guys! This spring there will be blood!
P.P.S. Now, sweety, if you excuse me, I must return to writing my new bestseller: “The liberating mystique of Male Fart”. Merry Christmas.
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On a more serious note:
This is yet another reason why every boy needs a father: To explain to him the correlation between facts “women bleed every month” and “women sometimes behave like insane with no visible reson”.
Because I have yet to meet a mother or a female schoolteacher who would honestly say to a boy: “Sorry, kid, it is that time of the month for me, so don’t take me too seriously, please.”
Pride is the weakness of the strong.
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@ Leichhardt:
Quite the contrary:
Pride is the delusional strenght of the weak.
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Usually they just used old worn out clothes. There wasn’t any need to invent anything. The idea that they needed to invent something is a superimposition of western consumer culture on an ancient civilization.
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@Lara (another one)
‘Women are particularly good at running companies, communities; we have a “sense of community” that men don’t have.’
Really?
For their “sense of community”, thousands of men have spilled their blood and guts, though I realize that such sacrifice pales when compared to levying taxes upon men to feed ungrateful women and their children. It takes the warm community spirit only present in a woman to DARE place ANY other outworking of “sense of community” on or above the plane of sacrifice of those men who’ve been maimed or killed in defense of community.
I suppose that “sense of community” also manifests itself when significant numbers of women (if not an outright majority) will either share outward laughter or furtive snickering when a man is castrated-for instance- or lesser male suffering.
Projection of their own misandrist attitude will explain why so many women refuse to believe that a man would willingly spend weeks with a bloody crotch- all in an effort to alleviate female misery and discomfort.
Unbelievable and yet so typical.
You may be “another” Lara indeed, but other than your apparent ability to string more than one sentence together, you’re every bit the vapid, hateful idiot that is the “usual” Lara.
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Actually I agree with Another Laura that women have a special ability for nurturing community–at least when they act like women. But when they play the feminist game and try to imitate men, they destroy community and unleash chaos.
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Women are discriminated by men is a popular lie. However there must be a room to identify and understand the gender specifications of each other. The important thing is when men are going to protect women feminists have no issues with that.
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“His wife left him when times were tough but now that it’s raining silver coins, she’s back in his arms again.”
Something tells me that if any of you began dating a woman who kept semen samples from various men in her refrigerator (next to the Haagen-Dazs ice cream, 0f course) and routinely wore a strap on leather dildo that ejaculated, you all would dump her in a heartbeat, even after she explained that it was all part of a pet research project.
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