Is it true that men today are useless?

Question

Germaine Greer seems to think so:

"God knows how many women already have no use for their men, who are all too often idle and incompetent both as wage-earners and around the house, uninterested in the children and hopeless in bed…"

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20011208/ai_n14426321/pg_2

Is she right?

Answer 1

Women would die off without men. We are necessary for all the dangerous jobs that keep the world running.

Answer 2

It's so true Jim...It's time for us to end it all.

Now...Where did I put that .45?

Answer 3

Men today aren't useless (neither are women) and she is definitely not right.

LOL to Undertaker.

Answer 4

Sounds like she's bitter about someone. I wouldn't say that's so. Even if my mother does make more than my father, he cooks and still does pull in a good salary. As for my men, they are never incompetent as wage-earners or around the house. My current boyfriend loves to cook and has a great job. :) You just have to pick em right.

Answer 5

She needs to hang around with some different men, but then I guess most men aren't interested in a bitter old woman. The fact that she generalizes tells me that you can never take her seriously, that and she has been on 'celebrity' big brother...

Answer 6

When will you guys understand that we really, really don't care what radical feminazis think.

Answer 7

Men who fall into that category should prove her wrong and become better at all those things mentioned.  I think rather than being useless they are losing their identity.

Answer 8

To a great extent it is true.  Men are becoming more feminized too.  The thought is it is due to things in the food and chemicals in the environment.  Women are likely to take a leadership role in the future and the men house husbands.

Answer 9

No gender is, was, or will ever be, useless.

Is she right? NO!!!

Only she thinks so.

Feminists can have no excuse for this one. This is from a mainstream feminist quoted by a respected mainstream feminist newspaper. I am now forced to assume that misandrist radicals aren't different from the mainstream. They are all the same: misandrist, sexist and radical.

Feminists, serious dissing ends here. Please stop reading. Men and non-feminists, read on.

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I, on the other hand, whole-heartedly agree with her logic, and shall immediately request the following laws/rules to be introduced/changed.

1) The more competent earner (in this case, the woman) should pay child support. That is only fair. Why would anybody want an idle and incompetent earner to provide for the family?

2) Women asking for men to do any housework or babysitting should be illegal. We don't want private property or future generations ruined by incompetent and idle caretakers uninterested in the Future of the World.

3) Men can sit in the pub all day while women do all the housework and office work. Complaining about this on the part of the fairer s*x should not be tolerated. They brought it upon themsleves. Blame Greer, not men.

I could go on, but you get the idea.

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I think Greer is wrong by the way.

I'm sure feminists read on though I told them not to. Shows that they are not only sexist, but also that they don't listen either.

Answer 10

I definetely don't want to say that men in general are useless.  I know many men that get off of their behind, go to work everyday.  Do things around the house, take care of the children, etc.  Unfortunately, my personal experience in mates has not been that lucky.  Now, they both had very good jobs, making much more than I ever will.  But the feeling that they didn't have to do anything else, everything was my responsibility even tho I was also working.  The fact that neither would take care of their financial business does make me feel that I have no use for a man in my house.

Answer 11

No.

Answer 12

We are useful to ourselves, and that is all that matters.

Answer 13

No, she's not right. Men and women are both extremely useful and were always useful throughout time. Simple as that. You can't live without men or women. They both are great and have a genuine quality to making this world go round.

Although, we could do without women like that Ire or whatever girl and men like @xn

Answer 14

Just goes to show you how hateful feminist ideology is.

If someone said that about blacks, Jews, or women... They'd be ridiculed and dismissed by their peers. Feminism is a special kind of hate. It's the last permissible hate in society. I'm glad people are finally waking up.

Answer 15

women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition, not much to us Lady's, but we will continue to battle what ever obstacles that we may face. we are hunter gathers, protectors,providers, we are the dominate being.

Answer 16

Psh no. Ignore the ignorant.

Answer 17

IMO Germaine Greer isn't even a feminist - she was okay when she wrote the female eunuch, but then she took it all back and admitted men and women were different after all.  I don't agree with any writer who claims men and women's differences are biological and immutable - and I definitely don't agree with the traitorous Germaine Greer :-)

Answer 18

By that description... How are women different ?

Answer 19

Why can't you stop worrying about what extreme wackos think.

Answer 20

Consider the fact that the vast majority of the inventions and technological advancements that are practical to the human race were created/invented by men. If men are useless, then I guess everything that we invented/created is useless too then..

I find it funny how many feminists say that men are "useless" but at the same time using the things that men created/invented in everyday of their lives.

Hypocrisy no?

Answer 21

She also said this right after:

'Women have neither the power nor the desire to annihilate men. Women carry male children as well as female children inside their bodies and tend to love them more the more useless and vulnerable they are.'

Maybe she does believe that, but I expect that she is just trying to wind you up Jim!

Answer 22

She's nuts....I dont like cuddling with other chicks.

Answer 23

I'm sure some men are like that but not every men. I think she has had the bad luck of encountering lazy, detached, and impotent men in her life. I've seen many men who help around the house and work and are good fathers.

Answer 24

shes a dic*! or she needs some dic*.

Answer 25

NO...I think Germaine Greer and the likes over exaggerate.

I suppose what you want from your husband, out of life in general and your personality will determine how you treat him. Yes, I am sure there are many 'Hyacinth Buckets' out there who married honest, decent and able men who deserve respect but continually get treated as though they can never do anything right. I don't think that is feminism though....just plain nasty and controlling.

On the other hand, there are men like 'Onslow' who sits on his bottom all day and only gets up to grap a beer, reach for the remote control or to collect his dole cheque. I'm sorry but I just couldn't respect a man like that.

Also, alot of women would rather stay single nowadays becaue they don't HAVE to marry.

I think a lot of women (and men) take their partners for granted, it's only natural after you have been with them for many years, but I don't think men are useless, on the contrary, I don't know what I'd do without my husband and brothers.

Answer 26

She is psychotic. She has made distasteful comments about Steve Irwin after his death and made the same kind of comments about the later Princess Diana. She made a book called The Beautiful Boy. This book is nothing but pictures of teenaged boys. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beautif...  & http://blacktable.com/matthews030806.htm

This book makes her a pedophile.

Her entire assumption is subjective. Her article is a rant that has no objective fact. She is a psychotic old hag.

P.S.     Feminist need to look to women like the great Karen Horney for a great role model. Not only was she born on September 16th like me (but 99 years before my birth), but she created one of the best theories on neurosis and was one of the founders of feminist psychology. You feminists shouldn't  look up to psychotic and callous women like Gloria Steinem and Germaine Greer. They are frigid b*tches and end up alone.

Answer 27

I saw a program last night on King Crab season. The most dangerous job in the world. Now i'm telling you now no woman would be able to do that. Who would supply us with crabs then?

Answer 28

Truth be told  they really do not need us for any thing except to get pregnant if they want a child and event then they can just get rid of you and move on to the next. so yes we are and perhaps she is right.

i realize that saying this is harsh and hurts some but hey it is not a mater of what they need but more of what they want.

do they really needs us ......no

do some of them want a man .......yes

so see it is a mater of want not need.