Kim du Toit – The Pussification of the Western Male
at around evening time on Thursday, the 15th of December 2005 by Capt Jake Fortune
For some reason I still get a ton of searches for this essay. It’s not mine of course, but since Kim’s original site is offline, I thought I’d repost it, because it is just as true as it always has been.
Update: Read this at Kim’s new site
The Pussification of the Western Male
By: Kim du Toit
November 5, 2003 02:24amWe have become a nation of women.
It wasn’t always this way, of course. There was a time when men put their signatures to a document, knowing full well that this single act would result in their execution if captured, and in the forfeiture of their property to the State. Their wives and children would be turned out by the soldiers, and their farms and businesses most probably given to someone who didn’t sign the document.
There was a time when men went to their certain death, with expressions like You all can go to hell. I’m going to Texas. (Davy Crockett, to the House of Representatives, before going to the Alamo.)
There was a time when men went to war, sometimes against their own families, so that other men could be free. And there was a time when men went to war because we recognized evil when we saw it, and knew that it had to be stamped out.
There was even a time when a President of the United States threatened to punch a man in the face and kick him in the balls, because the man had the temerity to say bad things about the President’s daughter’s singing.
We’re not like that anymore.
Now, little boys in grade school are suspended for playing cowboys and Indians, cops and crooks, and all the other familiar variations of good guy vs. bad guy that helped them learn, at an early age, what it was like to have decent men hunt you down, because you were a lawbreaker.
Now, men are taught that violence is bad that when a thief breaks into your house, or threatens you in the street, that the proper way to deal with this is to give him what he wants, instead of taking a horsewhip to the rascal or shooting him dead where he stands.
Now, men’s fashion includes not a man dressed in a three-piece suit, but a tight sweater worn by a man with breasts.
Now, warning labels are indelibly etched into gun barrels, as though men have somehow forgotten that guns are dangerous things.
Now, men are given Ritalin as little boys, so that their natural aggressiveness, curiosity and restlessness can be controlled, instead of nurtured and directed.
And finally, our President, who happens to have been a qualified fighter pilot, lands on an aircraft carrier wearing a flight suit, and is immediately dismissed with words like swaggering, macho and the favorite epithet of Euro girly-men, cowboy. Of course he was bound to get that reaction and most especially from the Press in Europe, because the process of male pussification Over There is almost complete.
How did we get to this?
In the first instance, what we have to understand is that America is first and foremost, a culture dominated by one figure: Mother. It wasn’t always so: there was a time when it was Father who ruled the home, worked at his job, and voted.
But in the twentieth century, women became more and more involved in the body politic, and in industry, and in the media and mostly, this has not been a good thing. When women got the vote, it was inevitable that government was going to become more powerful, more intrusive, and more protective (ie. more coddling), because women are hard-wired to treasure security more than uncertainty and danger. It was therefore inevitable that their feminine influence on politics was going to emphasize (lowercase s”) social security.
I am aware of the fury that this statement is going to arouse, and I don’t care a fig.
What I care about is the fact that since the beginning of the twentieth century, there has been a concerted campaign to denigrate men, to reduce them to figures of fun, and to render them impotent, figuratively speaking.
I’m going to illustrate this by talking about TV, because TV is a reliable barometer of our culture.
In the 1950s, the TV Dad was seen as the lovable goofball perhaps the beginning of the trend BUT he was still the one who brought home the bacon, and was the main source of discipline (think of the line: Wait until your father gets home!”).
From that, we went to this: the Cheerios TV ad.
Now, for those who haven’t seen this piece of shit, I’m going to go over it, from memory, because it epitomizes everything I hate about the campaign to pussify men. The scene opens at the morning breakfast table, where the two kids are sitting with Dad at the table, while Mom prepares stuff on the kitchen counter. The dialogue goes something like this:
Little girl (note, not little boy): Daddy, why do we eat Cheerios?
Dad: Because they contain fiber, and all sorts of stuff that’s good for the heart. I eat it now, because of that.
LG: Did you always eat stuff that was bad for your heart, Daddy?
Dad (humorously): I did, until I met your mother.
Mother (not humorously): Daddy did a lot of stupid things before he met your mother.Now, every time I see that TV ad, I have to be restrained from shooting the TV with a .45 Colt. If you want a microcosm of how men have become less than men, this is the perfect example.
What Dad should have replied to Mommy’s little dig: Yes, Sally, that’s true: I did do a lot of stupid things before I met your mother. I even slept with your Aunt Ruth a few times, before I met your mother.
That’s what I would have said, anyway, if my wife had ever attempted to castrate me in front of the kids like that.
But that’s not what men do, of course. What this guy is going to do is smile ruefully, finish his cereal, and then go and fuck his secretary, who doesn’t try to cut his balls off on a daily basis. Then, when the affair is discovered, people are going to rally around the castrating bitch called his wife, and call him all sorts of names. He’ll lose custody of his kids, and they will be brought up by our ultimate modern-day figure of sympathy: The Single Mom.
You know what? Some women deserve to be single moms.
When I first started this website, I think my primary aim was to blow off steam at the stupidity of our society.
Because I have fairly set views on what constitutes right and wrong, I have no difficulty in calling Bill Clinton, for example, a fucking liar and hypocrite.
But most of all, I do this website because I love being a man. Amongst other things, I talk about guns, self-defense, politics, beautiful women, sports, warfare, hunting, and power tools all the things that being a man entails. All this stuff gives me pleasure.
And it doesn’t take much to see when all the things I love are being threatened: for instance, when Tim Allen’s excellent comedy routine on being a man is reduced to a fucking sitcom called Home Improvement. The show should have been called Man Improvement, because that’s what every single plotline entailed: turning a man into a better person, instead of just leaving him alone to work on restoring the vintage sports car in his garage. I stopped watching the show after about four episodes.
(“The Man Show was better, at least for the first season men leering at chicks, men fucking around with ridiculous games like pin the bra on the boobies, men having beer-drinking competitions, and women on trampolines. Excellent stuff, only not strong enough. I don’t watch it anymore, either, because it’s plain that the idea has been subverted by girly-men, and turned into a parody of itself.)
Finally, we come to the TV show which to my mind epitomizes everything bad about what we have become: Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. Playing on the
homoBravo Channel, this piece of excrement has taken over the popular culture by storm (and so far, the only counter has been the wonderful South Park episode which took it apart for the bullshit it is).I’m sorry, but the premise of the show nauseates me. A bunch of homosexuals trying to improve ordinary men into something better (ie. more acceptable to women): changing the guy’s clothes, his home decor, his music for fuck’s sake, what kind of girly-man would allow these simpering butt-bandits to change his life around?
Yes, the men are, by and large, slobs. Big fucking deal. Last time I looked, that’s normal. Men are slobs, and that only changes when women try to civilize them by marriage. That’s the natural order of things.
You know the definition of homosexual men we used in Chicago? Men with small dogs who own very tidy apartments.
Real men, on the other hand, have big fucking mean-ass dogs: Rhodesian ridgebacks, bull terriers and Rottweilers, or else working dogs like pointers or retrievers which go hunting with them and slobber all over the furniture.
Women own lapdogs.
Which is why women are trying to get dog-fighting and cock-fighting banned they’d ban boxing too, if they could because it’s mean and cruel. No shit, Shirley. Hell, I don’t like the idea of fighting dogs, either, but I don’t have a problem with men who do. Dogs and cocks fight. So do men. No wonder we have an affinity for it.
My website has become fairly popular with men, and in the beginning, this really surprised me, because I didn’t think I was doing anything special.
That’s not what I think now. I must have had well over five thousand men write to me to say stuff like Yes! I agree! I was so angry when I read about [insert atrocity of choice], but I thought I was the only one.
No, you’re not alone, my friends, and nor am I.
Out there, there is a huge number of men who are sick of it. We’re sick of being made figures of fun and ridicule; we’re sick of having girly-men like journalists, advertising agency execs and movie stars decide on what is a man; we’re sick of women treating us like children, and we’re really fucking sick of girly-men politicians who pander to women by passing an ever-increasing raft of Nanny laws and regulations (the legal equivalent of public-school Ritalin), which prevent us from hunting, racing our cars and motorcycles, smoking, flirting with women at the office, getting into fistfights over women, shooting criminals and doing all the fine things which being a man entails.
When Annika Sorenstam was allowed to play in that tournament on the men’s PGA tour, all the men should have refused to play Vijay Singh was the only one with balls to stand up for a principle, and he was absolutely excoriated for being a chauvinist. Bullshit. He wasn’t a chauvinist, he was being a man. All the rest of the players Woods, Mickelson, the lot are girls by comparison. And, needless to say, Vijay isn’t an American, nor a European, which is probably why he still has a pair hanging between his legs, and they’re not hanging on the wall as his wife’s trophy.
Fuck this, I’m sick of it.
I don’t see why I should put up with this bullshit any longer hell, I don’t see why any man should put up with this bullshit any longer.
I don’t see why men should have become feminized, except that we allowed it to happen and you know why we let it happen? Because it’s goddamned easier to do so. Unfortunately, we’ve allowed it to go too far, and our maleness has become too pussified for words.
At this point, I could have gone two ways: the first would be to say, …and I don’t know if we’ll get it back. The process has become too entrenched, the cultural zeitgeist of men as girls has become part of the social fabric, and there’s not much we can do about it.
But I’m not going to do that. To quote John Belushi (who was, incidentally, a real man and not a fucking woman): “Did we quit when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
Well, I’m not going to quit. Fuck that. One of the characteristics of the non-pussified man (and this should strike fear into the hearts of women and girly-men everywhere) is that he never quits just because the odds seem overwhelming. Omaha Beach, guys.
I want a real man as President not Al Gore, who had to hire a consultant to show him how to be an Alpha male, and french-kiss his wife on live TV to prove to the world that he was a man, when we all knew that real men don’t have to do that shit.
And I want the Real Man President to surround himself with other Real Men, like Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft, and yes, Rice (who is more of a Real Man than those asswipes Colin Powell and Norman Mineta).
I want our government to be more like Dad kind, helpful, but not afraid to punish us when we fuck up, instead of helping us excuse our actions.
I want our government of real men to start rolling back the Nanny State, in all its horrible manifestations of over-protectiveness, intrusiveness and Mommy Knows Best What’s Good For You regulations.
I want our culture to become more male and not the satirical kind of male, like The Man Show, or the cartoonish figures of Stallone, Van Damme or Schwartzenegger. (Note to the Hollywood execs: We absolutely fucking loathe chick movies about feelings and relationships and all that feminine jive. We want more John Waynes, Robert Mitchums, Bruce Willises, and Clint Eastwoods. Never mind that it’s simplistic we like simple, we are simple, we are men our lives are uncomplicated, and we like it that way. We Were Soldiers was a great movie, and you know why? Because you could have cut out all the female parts, and it still would have been a great movie, because it was about Real Men. Try cutting out all the female parts in a Woody Allen movie you’d end up with the opening and closing credits.)
I want our literature to become more male, less female. Men shouldn’t buy self-help books unless the subject matter is car maintenance, golf swing improvement or how to disassemble a fucking Browning BAR. We don’t improve ourselves, we improve our stuff.
And finally, I want men everywhere to going back to being Real Men. To open doors for women, to drive fast cars, to smoke cigars after a meal, to get drunk occasionally and, in the words of Col. Jeff Cooper, one of the last of the Real Men: to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth.
In every sense of the word. We know what the word is means.
Because that’s all that being a Real Man involves. You don’t have to become a fucking cartoon male, either: I’m not going back to stoning women for adultery like those Muslim assholes do, nor am I suggesting we support that perversion of being a Real Man, gangsta rap artists (those fucking pussies they wouldn’t last thirty seconds against a couple of genuine tough guys that I know).
Speaking of rap music, do you want to know why more White boys buy that crap than Black boys do? You know why rape is such a problem on college campuses? Why binge drinking is a problem among college freshmen?
It’s a reaction: a reaction against being pussified. And I understand it, completely. Young males are aggressive, they do fight amongst themselves, they are destructive, and all this does happen for a purpose.
Because only the strong men propagate.
And women know it. You want to know why I know this to be true? Because powerful men still attract women. Women, even liberal women, swooned over George Bush in a naval aviator’s uniform. Donald Trump still gets access to some of the most beautiful pussy available, despite looking like a medieval gargoyle. Donald Rumsfeld, if he wanted to, could fuck 90% of all women over 50 if he wanted to, and a goodly portion of younger ones too.
And he won’t. Because Rummy’s been married to the same woman for fifty years, and he wouldn’t toss that away for a quickie. He’s a Real Man. No wonder the Euros hate and fear him.
We’d better get more like him, we’d better become more like him, because if we don’t, men will become a footnote to history.
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December 16th, 2005 at 7:33 am
As a man, a father, and a Staff Sargeant in the Air Force, I could not agree with you more. Your site is a daily read for me because of items like this. Thanks for saying what others are not capable of or unwilling to.
December 16th, 2005 at 2:41 pm
No problem. Once again, I don’t take credit for posting this, but I get about a dozen searches a day for people looking for this post, so I figured I’d reproduce it here in its entirety, if only for posterity’s sake!
December 19th, 2005 at 5:41 pm
Here’s the new link.
http://www.theothersideofkim.com/index.php/essays/41/
Feel free to add it to your post.
February 22nd, 2006 at 8:46 pm
Well, BOYS, lets take a look, shall we . First off KIM (are ya trying to make up for the fact your MOM named you for a girl to begin with?)
Mostly though, stop your freakin whining, because now you DO sound like a girl. Suck it up and be the man you think you want to be.
I have to go rebuild the carb. on my Harley.
Later.
March 15th, 2006 at 10:22 am
Oh, yeah… making fun of my name. Playground humor. Refreshing.
Not.
March 27th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Kim needs to check himself. It seems to me that he has some serious issues with his own manhood. A real man does not feel threatened by these things that Kim fears.
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:55 am
Although I agree with alot of what he says, Calling Rumsfield and Ashcroft “Real men” is bullshit. These guys are fucking BS artists at best. I don’t have any love for liberals, but anyone who only follows one party is a moron. I’m sick of the whole party system and the shit that follows it.
The war we are fighting is bullshit. We went for bullshit and are staying for bullshit. I would have supported a war to take oil, kill religious extremests or just plain take over a country, but have the balls to call it what it is.
May 17th, 2007 at 11:51 am
I could agree with the “stop whining” comment, except I didn’t take Kim’s piece as a rant. It was a call to action. It gave specific examples, and many of them, so the left-slanted readers could not help but understand the point. You understood the point. If you twisted the meaning to be sniveling or fear, it is a clear indication of which gender you are. The traits you most easily view in others are those you most glaringly exemplify yourself.
Comments like the one from Anamerican or full-on lies. You can’t say you support our military, and then set conditions on when you support them. The only condition I put on our military, are those they put on themselves: Honor and Duty. I question whether Anamerican has either.
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February 2nd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
speak for yourself, only…retard
July 18th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
This is why I don’t date. Every single man I meet is either a wuss or a perpetual child. I have many male friends who are married, and dedicated to their families. It’s the wusses who are the problem, but you can’t fix wussiness!
December 16th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Despite your obvious prejudice, a love-affair with violence, and a few inaccuracies of fact (eg. the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour, not the Germans), I loved the sentiment of this.
I fucking hate watching women treat their men like their children, and I stand up and walk out the minute any girl ever tries that shit with me.
January 18th, 2010 at 11:23 am
Uh, Michael…the Belushi quote was from the movie, Animal House. In that movie, Belushi’s character mentioned the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor as a comedy line. I thought every American male over the age of 14 knew that quote. You really need to get away from the computer more often.
August 9th, 2010 at 9:46 am
I’m sorry, WHY IS NO-ONE STANDING UP TO THIS! It’s a load of crap! I mean, duToit and some of of the morons commenting actually WANT to live in a caveman society? Where only the rich white man has power and rights? His essay is wrong on some many levels. I can believe none of you commented on the sheer lack of care for others’ opinions and rights. How can you agree with this man? He’s a knuckle-dragging idiot! I’m disgusted with the fact you can relate to his opinions that women should be opressed, and the fact you condone his homaphobia! Please, PLEASE never have children. The world will be a better place without you influcencing a younger generation with your sick, twisted view of modern society.
August 9th, 2010 at 11:26 am
(Okay, this comment is aimed at everyone who agrees with DuToit’s essay. Even a tiny bit. I know it’s long. But you just read 3,000 words of angry, whiney shit. I’m sure you can stomach a bit more)
“Nanny laws and regulations… which prevent us from hunting, racing our cars and motorcycles, smoking, flirting with women at the office, getting into fistfights over women, shooting criminals and doing all the fine things which being a man entails.”
On hunting: I don’t know about America, but in the UK, the ban on hunting was originally proposed by a man. And seeing as at the time Parliament was at least 50% male – probably more – your point about it being a ‘motherly’ thing is pretty redundant.
Oh dear! You can’t drive dangerously fast on public roads for the sake of your own ego-centric male fulfilment? Whatever next?
Last I heard, it’s perfectly legal to smoke. They’re your own lungs, you want to destroy them, that’s fine with me. No, please, go right ahead. It’s my pleasure. Just don’t do it in a public place where your poorly-made decisions about personal health are going to be forced onto people who’d like to stay alive until after they retire, thanks very much.
What, you mean women aren’t available to you for sexual pleasure at every minute of their day, even in a space where they’d much rather just get on with their work? What kind of fuckhead came up with that idea? (I could go into plenty of detail about precisely why it’s wrong to assume you can ‘flirt with’ (translation: harass) a woman whenever and wherever you please, even if they don’t like it, but… eh, if you don’t already understand you probably never will).
Fighting over women like a pair of cocks (yes, that was intentional) fighting in a ring is illegal? But, dudes, you have to fight over women! It’s not like those dumb bitches can make their own choices!
Ah! Finally! A point I slightly understand! Shooting criminals. Yes, if you have the logical capabilities of a toddler, being allowed to shoot criminals sounds a good idea. But how do you know it’s a criminal you just shot? Let’s say, hypothetically, your iPhone got stolen. A day later, in your neighbourhood, you see a guy listening to an iPhone that looks exactly like yours. And he doesn’t seem too familiar with it. Right, that’s it. Better shoot the bastard.
And when you find out he was innocent? That you’re a murderer? That (since we’re living in this misogynistic utopia DuToit conjures up) he had a wife and kids dependent on him, distraught at the death of their loving husband/father? What’s your defence? ‘Oh, sorry, officer. I thought he stole something of mine.’
Right. I’ve finished tearing apart half a paragraph of this poorly thought-out dickfest.
“To quote John Belushi (who was, incidentally, a real man and not a fucking woman)”
Because you can’t trust fucking women. They’re worth shit. And don’t get me started on the fucking homos.
“(Note to the Hollywood execs: We absolutely fucking loathe chick movies about feelings and relationships and all that feminine jive… Never mind that it’s simplistic we like simple, we are simple, we are men our lives are uncomplicated, and we like it that way. We Were Soldiers was a great movie, and you know why? Because you could have cut out all the female parts, and it still would have been a great movie, because it was about Real Men. Try cutting out all the female parts in a Woody Allen movie you’d end up with the opening and closing credits.)”
Newsflash: [i]I[/i] absolutely fucking loathe dick movies about cars and indiscriminate killing and sex and all that masculine jive. Do I care one jot that they exist? No. I’m not being forced to buy a ticket and go and watch 3 hours of carnage whilst trying to spot a rare instance of actual plot. I’m perfectly free to ignore them. If someone else I know wants to go see them, fine. Because, hey, even if I’m not too keen on the film, I acknowledge that some people do like the film.
You can’t be angry that some films are aimed at audience other than dicks like you. Because guess what? There are people out there other than white, heterosexual males.
On a quick side note – DuToit freely says that ‘real’ men are simple. You like simplicity, and things being uncomplicated. And you think that these ‘real’ men should be running the country? It sounds like they’re having difficulties running their own annoyingly complex lives.
We Were Soldiers was a great movie, because all the female parts were negligible, just like real life should be. Women are useless, and should stay at home caring for the children. Gods forbid they should have a brain, an opinion, or any kind of culture. Is that what you’re saying?
“I want our literature to become more male, less female.”
Thanks for reminding me. I forgot that women aren’t interested in reading. Or thinking. I also forgot that if something isn’t completely male – if, say, it’s open to both sexes – it’s inherently tainted and therefore feminine. And as we’ve learned – repeat after me, everyone – women are worthless!
“Men shouldn’t buy self-help books unless the subject matter is car maintenance, golf swing improvement or how to disassemble a fucking Browning BAR. We don’t improve ourselves, we improve our stuff.”
… again… you think this kind of person should run the country?
“And he won’t. Because Rummy’s been married to the same woman for fifty years”
Ah. Because presumably [i]this[/i] woman is quiet and respectful, and not a castrating bitch like most of us.
“Because Rummy’s … a Real Man. No wonder the Euros hate and fear him.”
I’m from Europe (England, to be precise) and I’d never fucking heard of him before I read this.
“Only the strong men propagate.
And women know it. You want to know why I know this to be true? Because powerful men still attract women. Women, even liberal women, swooned over George Bush in a naval aviator’s uniform. Donald Trump still gets access to some of the most beautiful pussy available, despite looking like a medieval gargoyle. Donald Rumsfeld, if he wanted to, could fuck 90% of all women over 50 if he wanted to, and a goodly portion of younger ones too.”
I’m female. Straight. You know what? You disgust me. I dislike George Bush, and I’m still not interested even if he’s wearing a fucking army uniform and ordering me around (far from it , in fact). [i]Power[/i] does not interest me, or any other woman with half a brain. Want to know what us females really like? Men who think. Men who treat us like people.
But I forget. You’re not interested in women who think.
And finally…
“But in the twentieth century, women became more and more involved in the body politic, and in industry, and in the media and mostly, this has not been a good thing. When women got the vote, it was inevitable that government was going to become more powerful, more intrusive, and more protective (ie. more coddling), because women are hard-wired to treasure security more than uncertainty and danger. It was therefore inevitable that their feminine influence on politics was going to emphasize (lowercase s”) social security.”
First, I’d like to say that this made me go cold inside. Cold, and hard, and utterly speechless. Luckily I’ve now regained the ability to form words. They are not very nice words, because the kind of person who thinks this is not a very nice person.
Women getting the vote was not a [i]bad[/i] thing. It was a step forward. It was an acknowledgement of the fact that women have something worthwhile to contribute to society.
It was not ‘inevitable that government was going to become more powerful, more intrusive, and more protective’. How women getting the vote makes the government more powerful I have no idea. If anything, it made the male-dominated government less powerful. I also fail to see how it became more intrusive or protective. And anyway… having a government that tries to protect you is bad? Seriously?
By the way, you just implied that women are powerful (since apparently the government started to reflect women’s personalities, and because of that because powerful). Logical FAIL.
The [i]human race[/i] is hard-wired to treasure security over uncertainty and danger, because, dumbass, putting yourself in danger isn’t evolutionarily selected for.
“I am aware of the fury that this statement is going to arouse, and I don’t care a fig.”
Of course you don’t care a fig about how insulting you are. You don’t care about anyone but white, homophobic, misogynistic men like you.
August 12th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
I’ve known Kim through his internet forums for quite a few years now, and have met him and his son.
That some of you commentors read ONE essay that he wrote and feel qualified to call him a “knuckle-dragging cave man who disdains and abuses women” is amusing to me.
FYI, Kim is married, and is currently taking care of a wife who has serious health problems.
And although he is indeed “white”, he is an African-American. He was born and raised in South Africa, and was arrested and jailed for supporting the anti-apartied movement. He was part of the struggle to end South Arican segregation. His arrest record very nearly prevented him from being able to immigrate to America, which he did back in the ’80s.
And no, Georgia, I bet he really doesn’t care what you think about him.
August 12th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
An African-American white man went to jail to fight apartheid, and wrote this essay while taking care of his ailing wife?
What’s that sound, Georgia? Did your paradigm just shift without a clutch?
August 13th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
I don’t think that Kim is homophobic, Cape Bufflophobic, or pit bullphobic. And I can assure you that he cherishes women.
But he is pussygynistic. If that offends you join the Million Pussy March.
August 16th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
My goodness, Georgia. I think that may have been the most exhilarating example of extrapolation I’ve read this year. Though I still feel a bit dizzy, I must applaud the performance. It’s a bit like watching Emily Litella rail about “endangered feces” but without the understanding at the end.
Kim and his wife are on the very short list of people I consider friends. I’d trust them with my kids for any duration and in any circumstances. There are only two other people in the world I can say that about.
As Termite mentioned, it’s usually unwise to make sweeping generalizations from one data point.
And as to this comment…
“But I forget. You’re not interested in women who think.”
Clearly, you’ve never met Kim’s wife. ;-)
August 18th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
If you were to judge Kim Du Toit by this essay alone, some of the negative comments might actually carry some weight. Unfortunately, they would be far from the truth.
I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting Kim, only exchanged an e-mail or two with him a few years ago. But I was an avid reader of his blog for almost 3 years. The depth of this man cannot be measured by American standards as put forth by Hollywood and the mainstream media.
His upbringing and maturation were in another culture. A world far less encapsulated in safety than the average American. He, along with his equally brilliant wife Connie, are world travelers. Well versed in books, music, food, politics, and a host of other subjects that would just take too long to describe. He has a very well delineated sense of right and wrong which is very evident in his writing.
Before you denigrate or dismiss this man for his ideas, you should read his archived articles and essays. It is an education well worth the time spent. And I daresay, many of you would be surprised to find out just what kind of man that Kim Du Toit really is.
And that is the point of this particular essay, how the feminist mainstream media, has taken away our manhood and replaced it with the politically correct programmed nonsense that passes for their idea of what a proper man should act like today.
If you think that Kim espouses returning to a caveman society, you are wrong. A patriarchal society, possibly. But his ideas of why the modern male needs to rebel against the feminist, nanny state ideas are well grounded in fact and observation measured against a lifetime of personal experience.
For those who think it’s not worth their time to learn about Kim, then it is your loss and I have nothing but pity for you.
Ray