You Go, Girl

Here's a great rant by Elinor Dashwood. Has it all: masculinity, a shot at popular weakness, religion. If a man had written it, he'd be accused of being insecure.

What's the deal with these men who talk about feelings? Ugh! Do they talk about hair-care products and really yummy fat-free rice cakes, too? It isn't that they're inverted, but they're very effeminate. My objection to feelings - besides the way a lot of people can't get it into their heads that the whole world isn't as fascinated by their emotional reactions as they are themselves - is that it's a code word for irrationality at best, and evil at worst. People who are doing what they know to be wrong - abortion, remarriage, homosexual relations - fairly predictably plead feelings as their justification. I'm so tired of this that I'm practically ready to class feelings with illness, hunger, death, and labor in childbirth among the ancillary evils that the fall of man brought into the world. Sometimes people credit feelings with holding them back from some contemplated sin, but I'm inclined to think that the promptings of conscience were at work in such instances, and conscience is a very different thing. I'm glad people have stopped talking about getting in touch with their feelings; maybe we can start talking about getting in touch with our consciences. And do me a favor and drop the feelings stuff, buddy: you're giving me the creeps.