American Literature vs British Literature

***.....the only reason why American women seem so boisterous to you is because the average American woman has more balls than any British man I’ve ever met....***

Oh yuk! Your vision of American womanhood! Is that why more and more American men are having to look elsewhere for more co-habitable partners? So much so that the ghastly American feminist brigade has forced your legislators to introduce all kinds of anti American male, agenda diven laws all based on totally distorted facts and statistics and blatant untruths and false allegations, with the main aim being to promote out and out misandry? Feminist ideology of the extreme kind, in which consideration is given only to the welfare and well being of one side of the gender divide, something which is so clearly shown in practically all aspects of life, especially in legal matters, be it family law, divorce, child custody, judicial sentencing, and even education, employment and health issues.

As for those American males I mentioned, those ballsed up feminazis with mouths the size of the Grand Canyon, have, out of desperation, foisted on the US Government legislation of make it more and more difficult for American men to seek female partners from outside of the USA - in fact, to make it illegal for them to do so, leading to such total misandrist laws as something called VAWA, again something which evolved out of desperation by the feminists, and created out of fabrication, lies and misrepresentation in which only the interests of one side are considered. All this in the so called Land of the Free, which in many ways is anything but that in a good many ways.

When I was in Amstedam I was looking through the main tourist guide for the city, not that I needed it all that much as it was about my third time in that cool city. They have a section in which they list things you must not miss when in Amsterdam, and things which are best avoided. Under the latter heading was included "American girls". It reminded me of an instance in a TV show over here in Britain called "Blind Date", hosted by that lady from Scouseland Cilla Black. One guy seeking a blind date, one of your balls-less Brits, told Cilla that he didn't mind where his blind date came from as long as she wasn't American. In his words: "Oh Cilla, they are just awful!"

Presumably a decent British guy is minus his goolies simply because American women have stolen them? From my experience with them when I was at uni - that guy's sentiments I can fully understand. And what is it with the voices of so many American females? When young they are strident, squealy and high pitched, and when older they are strident, raspy and low pitched. And at times they all sound as if they could do with a good gargle. Most are just spoiled, over indulged daddy's wee girls. As they say over in Amsterdam - best avoided.

I think Jeremy Clarkson really has a point......

I hope this makes your Saturday go with a really good laugh! You asked for it - you got it. :-)

WOW, I used to think that I liked the British, but if Damien is any true marker of what you all are like, I'll have to change my opinion.

First, someone doesn’t know how to take a joke or know anything about American policies, politics, and law. My point was to illustrate how such generalizations didn’t hold water. I simply countered Adam’s generalization about American women with a commonly held stereotype of British men. I don’t believe it, but I guess you don’t get sarcasm unless it’s accompanied by a brogue, Damien. Perhaps you would have understood me if I had managed to make all my sentences run-ons or incomplete.

Second and finally, anyone who would appose VAWA (The Violence Against Women Act) doesn't deserve any more of my attention. Have fun beating your wife Damien.

American women sound perfectly fine on my ears but with a slight attitude like "we are the best". Trust me, I would give nine out of ten marks to American women for being educated and mature. On the other hand, I'd give minus ten out of 10 to American males for being obnoxious, arrogant and immature.

<<Have fun beating your wife Damien.>>

Damien? Wife? HAHAHAHA!

I so wish people would spell my name correctly! :-) DamiEn was a wee beastie of a lad bent on evil intent. I'm the exact antithesis - ask my boyfriend :-) and I appreciate Guest's hilarity - I thought it was funny too. I wonder why he sometimes says everything twice? Maybe he comes from Lancashire.

I'm not into beating ANY living creature whatever the circumstances. It's all I can do to beat an omelette. btw an omelette is your omelet. :-) I'm still in mourning over the wee rabbit I couldnae help running over yesterday morning, and just ten minutes later the blackbird that flew out right into the front of my car. I don't know why there are so many suicidal animals on the Queensfery Road! And just before Christmas, too. I can understand turkeys getting all twitchy.

I truly cannot change anything in my prior post, Wintereis - sorry, but I'd advise against any hasty revision of your opinion on my fellow male Brits here in the UK - there are about 30 millions of us - well, perhaps only some 23 million of us are true native born Brits, and each one is an individual.

We specialise in sarcasm, btw - it's a definite British characteristic - we always think it's the Americans who "don't get it!" and take it the wrong way, but perhaps there are varieties of sarcastic humour.....

See, I knew British men had no balls. They are all queers that run over animals on QUEENSFERY road and like to beat women. Oh, now that was fun. In all actuallity I'm gay and living in Broke Back country. . . not as bad as the movie made it out to be but as beautiful. And no, I don't own a cowboy hat.

But seriously,I shouldn’t have presumed that you were a heterosexual man because you were attacking feminism. I forget the enmity that has grown between gay men and feminists because of feminism’s very small, but outspoken, radical margins. Much of that has grown out of a response to Adrienne Rich’s “Compulsory Heterosexuality” and the rise of Lesbian Feminism. I can assure you that those margins have very little to do with American policies on gender except, perhaps, when it comes to adversarial reactions among conservatives. Also, I should say, that that particular wave of feminism almost entirely fizzled away after the 1970’s— most having revised their opinions on the subject. This includes Rich herself. I should also remind you that, at least in America, the gay movement owes much to the feminist movement.

AS far as American men are concerned, I can't wholly disagree with you Guest, but "there are about [150] million of us . . . and each one is an individual." And you really shouldn't think all American men are obnoxious, arrogant and immature just because the President is. After all, the majority of us didn't vote for him.

Back to American vs. British Lit. does anyone on here know anything about poetry, preferably from the most recent century? I'm tired of talking about Austen and Steinbeck and I'm certainly not interested in Browning or Longfellow.