We hear so much from the left these days, and even from the Gillette company about “toxic masculinity” as if every boy and man is a sexual predator or violent family beater. I have lived 71 years, having lived through the sexual Revolution of the 60s and 70s, and I encountered a lot of men and boys in that time. And yes, there were a few jerks among them, and even one murderer. But other than one man who thought it would be funny to expose himself to a group of his employees that included two girls, I can not say that the rest were anything but respectful and kind at the best or flirtatious or dismissive at the worst. Some men are awkward and shy around women. Some men are gentle. Most all men feel protective. At the shooting in the Country Music Bar in Thousand Oaks, California, for instance, many men pushed the women, any women to the floor, and covered them with their own bodies. Toxic masculinity?
The left goes after men, particularly white men, because they are generally conservative. They consider them toxic because they are physically stronger than women, and because some men have raped, beaten, and murdered women and children. But not most men. Most men are loving fathers and husbands, hard workers. Many serve in the police or fire departments or as EMTs, saving lives on a daily basis. Some serve in the armed forces, risking their lives to give the left the freedom to call toxic!
And what about women? What about toxic femininity? No such thing? I beg to differ! The female of the species can be more vicious than the male. Here are just a few examples:
In 1810 a woman in Schenectady, New York murdered her newborn child.
Christy Sheats told her daughters they were having a family meeting because her husband wished to divorce her. In front of her husband, she pulled out a gun, killing 17-year old Madison instantly, and then chased 22-year old Taylor into the street and shot her dead while her unarmed husband frantically called 911.
In 2011, Julie Schenecker gunned down her two teenagers for being “mouthy.”
In 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her children one by one in a bathtub because she “heard voices.”
In 2015, when the dead bodies of two of her children were found in her freezer, Michelle Blair was arrested. According to the 17-year daughter whom she had made help her put the bodies in the freezer, she had murdered her other daughter for saying she didn’t like her brother and sister, and had then tortured the brother for weeks before killing him.
Isabel Martinez stabbed and killed four of her children and her husband as they slept in 2017.
Multimillionaire socialite Gigi Jordan gave her eight-year-old autistic son a lethal cocktail of drugs, killing him in 2010.
Lianne Smith, in 2010, killed both her children by smothering them in their sleep.
Deanna Laney in 2003, woke up in the middle of the night, took her eight-year-old son into the backyard and stoned him to death. She then did the same thing to her six-year-old son.
Michelle Martens allowed her boyfriend and his cousin to rape torture, stab to death and then dismember her 10-year-old daughter because she “liked to watch.”
In 2014, Hu Chen of China threw first her 14-month-old daughter into traffic during an argument with her husband. Then she threw her 6-year-old son into traffic after her. The girl was killed instantly by a truck that could not stop in time. The boy survived.
Marybeth Tinning’s nine children all die young between 1972 and 1985, eight under suspicious circumstances. She was eventually indicted in three of the deaths.
In October of 1994, South Carolina officials launched a 9-day search for Susan Smith’s two missing sons, 14-month-old Alex and 2-year-old Michael. The frantic mother claimed she had been carjacked by a black man who had kidnapped the children. Eventually, she admitted that she had sent the car into a lake with the boys strapped into their car seats.
Diane Staudte’s husband, Mark, and son Shaun, died suddenly in 2012 and her 24-year-old daughter, Sarah was hospitalized for organ failure. Diane had poisoned all three with antifreeze in their drinks, making one of her daughters, Rachel, help her.
Amber Pasztor of Indiana kidnapped her 7-ear-old and 6-year-old daughters in 2016, then suffocated them and left them parked in a car behind a police station.
In 1983, Diane Downs shot all three of her children. Two survived with serious injuries. She was involved with a man who didn’t want children, so she decided to eliminate the obstacle they presented.
In 2001, Texas mom Andrea Yates killed her five children in a bathtub.
In 2014, Utah mom Megan Huntsman killed six of her newborn babies between 1996 and 2006.
Carola Arnau fatally shot her two children in their Pennsylvania home before killing herself. She and her ex-husband were involved in a custody battle at the time.
In July of 2017, Jessica Edens of South Carolina killed her estranged husband’s girlfriend then drove home and fatally shot her two child before killing herself.
In Kenya, Esther Wanial killed her baby after a quarrel with her husband.
Another Kenyan woman killed her 2-week old son by slitting his throat before going to her best friend’s house and killing her two children.
Yet another single mother in Nairobi slit the throats of her one-month-old twins with a kitchen knife.
Katherine Knight stabbed her new live-in boyfriend, John Price, to death as he tried to escape. She then skinned him, hanging his skin from a meat hook, chopped him up, and started to cook his body parts. The night she had married her first husband, David Kellett, she tried to strangle him, then later torched his clothing and hit him on the head with a frying pan.
All five of Betty Neumar’s husbands died mysteriously. Her son also “committed suicide” in 1985. Neumar benefited from the son’s insurance policy. She was eventually charged with the murder of her fourth husband.
Stacey Castor murdered two husbands with antifreeze and then tried to frame her daughter, dosing her with so many pills that she was in a coma for 17 hours. She then forged a suicide note supposedly from her daughter, confessing to the two murders.
According to Japanese authorities, between 1994 and 2013, at least seven men that Kakehi – a.k.a. “the Black Widow of Kyoto” – either dated or married died, leaving her alone, save for around $7 million in insurance payouts.
Kayla Coutee killed her husband, Thomas, after agreeing to meet him at a Walmart to exchange custody of their chidren. The children watched the murder.
Khoua Her of St Paul, strangled six of her children.
Kelly Cochran helped her husband kill her boyfriend and then she killed her husband.
Amy Archer-Gilligan Windsor ran a nursing home. Between 1911 and 1916 at least 48 people died while in her care, including her husband. Every body that was exhumed during the subsequent investigation had traces of either arsenic or strychnine.
Evelyn Dick was dubbed the “Torso Killer” when her husband’s headless and limbless body was discovered by some hikers.
Between 1955 and 1957 Mary Elizabeth Wilson of the U.K. lost four husbands to insecticide poisoning, earning her the title of the “Merry Widow of Windy Nook.”
Betty Lou Beets shot and wounded her second husband, but he didn’t die. Her fourth and fifth husbands weren’t so lucky.
So let’s confess, here. Some men are monsters. But so are some women. But most of us are not toxic at all, so stop with the slamming of nearly half of the country, you lefties!