Ron Collins
Aug 9, 2017 · 3 min read

What goes around, comes around. It might be the physics of historic karma, or it might be the innately vengeful and score-settling undercurrents of feminist doctrines, but we are seeing now the precise same drive toward pseudoscientific dismissiveness, toward men.

Witness terminology in everyday usage such as “toxic masculinity” and “rape culture.” Each, while enjoying a pretense of being a knowledgeable evaluation, is actually a standing class-action condemnation: to be masculine, is to be poisoned by what one is; to be male at all, is to be a believer that men have a right to rape women.

Men are continually told the extent to which our reproductive organs are the determining factor of our behavior and mental faculties. No license to practice that one, required. The term “testosterone” itself has for all intents and purposes ceased to be a scientific one and has instead become a pop-culture denunciation of any male behavior anyone finds objectionable. Again, no plaque from med school on one’s wall, required. Jokes about castrating men get sustained applause and those nauseating “woooooo”s from studios full of angry women. Scenes in films about men being assaulted in the groin by women, never fail to get a long and raucous laugh from a theater audience, the whole reason they are written in to begin with.

One of the most common scenarios in police shows on television or crime dramas in cinema, is a detective or district attorney openly threatening a man with the inevitability of his being sexually assaulted in prison if he does not cooperate with them instead. Jokes of that or any other nature with punch lines about men being sodomized, told by women, are hardly even considered as controversial enough to be “TV14” material.

And we can look to the gratuitous application of “expert witness testimony” in custody determinations, for further indications of the pseudo-clinicalizing of male behavior. With no more than an MSW and notes from a ten-minute interview with a father, a social worker may be taken at face value in a court of law when she says that a man’s wish to not be alienated from his children is “evidence of abuse” which calls for him to be isolated further from them.

The same expert witness may say with a straight face, that her impressions of a man’s conduct in that brief meeting which had been set up as an ambush and an interrogation in any way necessary to have him off balance and under siege, add up to his having any of a long list of “personality disorders”, based on no more than one non-clinician’s comparing her own opinions of the meeting with a checklist of the disorder’s possible indicators.

Unlike the quack medicine practiced upon women as detailed above, there is not even any pretense that the process of diagnosing a man for whatever condition it might be that has one expert witness disapproving of him as a person, has any intention of being used to help “cure” him, or even to go through any motions of trying to “treat” him. He may be sick in the head, that a judge must by law take into consideration because a social worker vaguely suggests he is, but the only “prescription” or course of treatment aimed at the man, amounts to his being told: “go away and don’t bother that lady and her kids any more.”

The quackery of anti-male pseudoscience may not be as entertaining to read about as some upscale authoress who sought a treatment herself and then got published about how she decided later that she didn’t care for it, but it is certainly as widespread now as the witch-doctoring of women ever was, and used with virtually unassailable effect not as medical doctrines, but as legal ones, to strip men of their status as parents on an assembly-line basis.

So, good story. Fun read.

And: that was then, this is now. And, men have been under the harsh light of fake science translated into appeal-proof legal rulings, and of bad taste in entertainment used to mock the idea that men are women’s equals at all, for a long time now, and probably a lot more of us than was ever the case with the women who had sought these spurious cures themselves in the first place, in the bargain.

    Ron Collins

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