Public Statement from Preston I. Grant, President of Male Equality Now
(in response to Brittany Lawton)
In her most recent blog, Brittany Lawton, who’s always been an opinionated character, sought to criticize everything that the great organization of MEN has done. Her recent piece was not just to deliver an opinion, it was intended to insult and offend us, and undermine the very fabric that brings MEN together. While my father, who founded this organization may have told me, “Don’t persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.”, I just can’t do that. For Brittany has done all the talking so far, and is being really offensive about it. She knows that many people in Cassadaigua adore her, looking up to her as not only a soccer player and now a coach, but also a person; and she uses that to her advantage to claim that everything that MEN do, is a “laughable failure”.
Think about that for a moment. Look back at everything that you have done in your life to make yourself a better person, and perhaps to make your community better. It doesn’t matter what it is, or what it cost you, only the time in which you invested into it. Then imagine someone else, someone of whom is more socially powerful then you, using her means of broadcasting her message, and calling what you have done, a “laughable failure”. It stings, and then Brittany turns around and ends her blog with a most asinine statement of that she is in favor of gender equality, and claims that our society would be better off without MEN. I can’t think of a more absurd statement, because without us, it is business as usual in Cassadaigua. Brittany points to some examples where men have good jobs and opportunistically posted a picture in her blog of a great protester, an older man named Francis who has invested decades upon decades of his life fighting the cause with MEN, being arrested while other male policeman looked on. I have to ask you, do you think those men make the same amount of money do the same job as the women do? Actually, I have your answer to that. For the same professions, men make 68-cents for every dollar earned by their female counterparts. So while they were looking on, and attempting to do a hard job, they are also being significantly underpaid for it. That’s not equality, Brittany. You can go slowly all the way round the outside of the issues all you want and never get to the root cause. Because that’s why we, MEN, are here, to do that ourselves and expose why Cassadaigua is one of the most corrupt nations in the world. If you think that what we have done has been a laughable failure, then maybe we need to wipe that grin off your face.
I try to be happy that Cassadaigua is back in the World Cup. But I look at the team and it does nothing but frustrate me. It is a group, again, of women. Sure, there was an exhaustive tryout period to make the team, and if men were offered tryout positions then it’d be a little easier for me to watch the games. The fact that a man like Michael Schaefer was not even given a chance to try is out is a disgrace. Schaefer, only 25, is the leading male scorer in Cassadaigua right now and 6th in overall league scoring but no one cares because of his gender. How could someone, who’s been that productive, not even get a chance to tryout amongst 80 or so players? You know the answer. The only thing Schaefer has done wrong in his life is be born in Cassadaigua. While many other nations allow both men and women on the team, the disgusting discrimination continues with us, and men are locked out. Even if I didn’t have such a dislike for Brittany Lawton, I would find it difficult to watch qualifying, because they do not represent me. In fact, they represent what is wrong with Cassadaigua. So go ahead, take comfort in their 1-1-0 record thus far, and I’ll just be a hermit back at home and look for ways to continue to be a laughable failure. Or maybe the time has come for us to deliver our message a lot louder.
