I announced the formal end of the Women’s Movement last year
(May 2005). I now announce that
remediation has begun.
There are classes being given in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Pacific Northwest, Florida and other places around the country. The attendees are predominantly woman. The classes are successfully correcting the awful behavior that the Women’s movement evoked. The programs have a number of names and are run by a variety of people. One group can be found at a website called Pax Programs.
Pax offers introductory classes and follow-on weekend
seminars. Before the afternoon of the first day’s weekend seminar the class is told
that each woman will have to personally say the following: “I will let men be
men. I give up my right to castrate men forever.” The women attending have the option of
quitting at that point and getting their money back.
That is remediation. That is good language. The hostility that we men have felt from many women for thirty years has been palpable and I speak for nearly every male friend I have ever had.
The uses of classes for social remediation has happened
before. In the late 1970s there were
classes operating, initially under the name EST, created by Jack Goldberg nea
Werner Erhart (think Herman Wouk’s Marjorie Morningstar character who changed her name
from Marjorie Morgenstern). EST
proliferated and was copied by many. It
had the sole purpose of correcting the social deviance created by Hippies. The remediation goal was to make people take
responsibility for their lives and show up for appointments on time.
EST was remediation for hippidom.
The founder of Pax Programs worked for an offshoot of EST. Pax is remediation for the Women’s movement. Women went too far. Access to the labor market, financial independence never required hostility to men.