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(31,518 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)aggiesal
(8,916 posts)just saying.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)I like it... it is why I picked it!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)But much more important I love, love!, the message! Men need to just shut up and watch, pay attention and learn for a change.
soldierant
(6,884 posts)but for a message of this length, and at this size, it seems just fine to me. I used to teach calligraphy (remember pens? Yeah, that long ago) and I certainly wouldn't flunk it.
Cartaphelius
(868 posts)to finally get here.
Shows just how the powers that be, are not serving humanities needs.
Will take at least another 10,000 years for men to get up to speed.
Probably longer.
CousinIT
(9,247 posts)trying to control women and girls.
malthaussen
(17,202 posts)One I happen to agree with, but that doesn't make it "fact."
-- Mal
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)Soph0571
(9,685 posts)crazytown
(7,277 posts)It's so bad it's good.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)I thought it appropriate for the message I wanted to get across!
Thekaspervote
(32,773 posts)Subtleties lost on the... you fill in the blank
dlk
(11,569 posts)Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,861 posts)There's a story, probably apocryphal, of some woman politician (I've forgotten the specifics of who or where) who instituted a curfew for men after a rise in rapes. "Why a curfew for men? Why not for women?" she was asked. "Because it's the men who are doing the raping of innocent women," she replied.
If mass shooters were profiled as they should be, white men would be rounded up regularly. Just saying.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,861 posts)It's just that it's almost entirely men who rape, murder, start wars, and so on.
Besides, every time there's a mass shooting, often the knee-jerk reaction is to assume it's perpetrated by some "Muslim". Almost no such shooting in this country has been done by anyone other than a white male.
My essential point is that if all white men were to start experiencing the profiling and suspicion against them that certain other groups have experienced, maybe that start to understand that it is individuals who do such terrible things, not groups.
And I'm very frustrated that people keep on piously falling back on "mental health" and somehow monitoring that as a way to stop mass shootings. That's right up there with all the gun defenders who say they are safe, law-abiding, gun owners who would never do anything bad with their guns and so we can't put even the tiniest restriction on guns.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)Most men aren't worth a damn, and I are one. How these guys can live with themselves is beyond my understanding. It burns my butt even more when they perpetuate the stupidity by acting that way in front of their male children. Break the cycle of stupidity for Dog's sake!
knightmaar
(748 posts)<clutches pearls>
Shouldn't we punish her for not taking care of her bathing suit?
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)Hope you did not snap your pearls...
Alwaysna
(574 posts)Soph0571
(9,685 posts)I quit my job in June because of this.... this kind of toxic bollocks is unacceptable
Alwaysna
(574 posts)Own actions and emotions?
lonely bird
(1,685 posts)Just not at the same time.
One is tired of primarily the so-called Abrahamic faiths and their alleged Word of God justifying abusive, destructive, anti-social psychotic behavior. Yes, women can be stupid (paging Margaret Thatcher and Michelle Bachman) but men are far and away the worst actors.
Aussie105
(5,401 posts)As a male, I own my own actions and emotions.
If, as a female, you feel constrained by the males in your immediate environment, feel made to conform, made to moderate your behaviour, fine - do something about it!
There are plenty of male-female relationships and interactions where each party is aware of, and attentive to, the other person's feelings, opinions, concerns and desires. Be it in the workforce, a family relationship, a marriage.
If that is not your experience, look elsewhere.
BUT don't get into the mindset of . . . . you males are unrestrained, obscene animals. Stop it, don't make me do something drastic! I'm a victim! In my victimhood, I'm justified in doing anything!
Personally, I get sick of females who give me the evil eye. As a male, I'm capable of anything, apparently. One look at me, and you just know I'm a potential rapist, a murderer, an eater of new born babies. And no, I'm not going out of my way to convince you I'm OK, and can be trusted, because I can tell you are not OK. I'm going to smile, look the other way, and just avoid you as best as I can.
Funtatlaguy
(10,878 posts)Soph0571
(9,685 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)H2O Man
(73,558 posts)Thank you for all you do here! I truly appreciate you and your wonderful contributions!