Comments on: >Memo to angry dudes: Not all the women who hate you are feminists

By: springer80

springer80 — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:53:18 +0000

>Darksidecat said: "Please read up on the history of the combat ban for women and the Supreme Court case which upheld a sex selective draft. The rationalization for this is certainly not that women are precious, it is that they are seen as weak." I would rather be called weak, and live longer,than to be called strong,and have a short life. The reason doesn't matter much.

By: springer80

springer80 — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:36:56 +0000

>Feminist "icons" like Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton are warmongers who send more troops to Afghanistan. They support bank Bailouts and Bush-era legislation like the Patriot Act. They are Okay with the death penalty being in most states. They support the war on drugs! This is NOT humanist, pro-equality action. If YOU support them, you do NOT support "equality." The hypocritical NOW organization pushes for custody for the mother in all situations, regardless of parental fitness. They made excuses for a mom who drowned her kids, going after the father, mostly. They've done worse things than that. If you support NOW, you don't support equality. The list goes on. Some of the earliest feminist "heroes" were racist, like Margaret Sanger. She talked about "inferior races". Wonderful. Others, like Christabele Pankhurst, tried to shame men into fighting in the war, with the white feather campaign. Yeah, I know the Non-feminists and Conservatives have done a lot of damage, too, the Bushes, and Mccarthy's. But if I had to write about all the bad, and the hypocricy of "Feminists" who endorsed patriarchal values like chivalry, and INEQUALITY, when it suited them, I would be writing posts all day.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:27:13 +0000

>Nick: Women are obviously the most privileged gender and men are obviously the second class citizens.If you want to be a flaming idiot as you said you can believe that. To paraphrase CB: if women consider themselves to be of value, you assume that men have none. I had a better response but this sums it up much more neatly.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:48:10 +0000

>Those are incredibly weak examples Nick. I will demolish them tomorrow after I get some sleep from my drive back to Vegas.Also, I saw a countryman of yours yesterday-a comedian named Jim Jeffries. He was a lot like you except he could actually make people laugh on purpose.

By: prettyamiable

prettyamiable — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:04:46 +0000

>"Please do not raise any children. Thanks."QFT

By: triplanetary

triplanetary — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:22:23 +0000

>"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world" is one of many quaint fantasies that patriarchal men make up as part of their constant process of privilege denial.I mean, I agree with a lot of your complaints about the way parents in our society often treat their children. But that's not feminism's fault; quite the opposite.

By: David Futrelle

David Futrelle — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:55:39 +0000

>Please do not raise any children. Thanks.

By: springer80

springer80 — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:42:55 +0000

>"My mother was overly controlling, too, but I don't take that as evidence of the matriarchy."I do. "The hand that rocks the cradle RULES the world". The (power) resides with whoever, we as young kids, have to listen to! Our mothers, and kindergarten teachers, form the matriarchy. The hapless office guy/father who sits in a cubicle for 50 hours doesn't get to shape young lives. He just made a big mistake, in his choice…He tends to be either a protect-and serve object, or a chivalrous mangina…I say go home now, Mr. chivalrous mangina! And spend quality time with your kids! And don't get drunk at the bar instead! your kids could be on ritalin right now. Your idea of providing an economic security blanket for your family isn't working! Your wife will get bored of you, and take half your money, your house, everything! Leave your corporate crap job now! Free yourself before it's too late! Oh, the humanity!Why then does society, the major media, and radical feminists treat, a father telling family what to do, as evidence of the patriarchy? The people I hung around were obsessed with idea of men telling women what to do, saying that's baaad! But faced with the idea of men or women telling men what to do, they would clam up. Society can't have it both ways. Darksidecat said:"Also, you have a really fucked up idea of raising children if you think being a child=being enslaved by your mother." "Also, you have a really fucked up idea of raising children if you think being a child=being enslaved by your mother." I stand by that analysis of enslavement. I guess that that no adults that I know would like to go back to an age (2,3,4) where you have NO control over your life. And to have parents scream at you (for hours) and slam doors, (a long time) then use the silent treatment, because you were too bored to be in a store, at 3. How might this NOT lead to enslavement? Anyway, "child" submission is more real in America than "wife" submission, as there are NO LAWS that say a woman must marry, or be submissive to her husband, but the laws say a child must be submissive to their parents, the wife getting custody in divorce more often. I'll stick to my "fucked up idea" of raising children. I meet too many disfunctional parents.

By: nicko81m

nicko81m — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:31:21 +0000

>"Wow, somebody has mommy issues. My mother was overly controlling, too, but I don't take that as evidence of the matriarchy." But if the father rules the house hold, it's patriarchy, right?

By: David Futrelle

David Futrelle — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:07:28 +0000

>Yeah, Jacques was pretty badass in a lot of ways. He was also a early motor-car enthusiast, and drove in crazy and dangerous cross-country races, which sometimes involved him accidentally driving into ditches.