Anti-Male Bias all around us.

Awww. You guys are so cute now.

 

it doesn't take much to get in my good graces.

 

I have not noticed it.

I have not read about it.

I have heard Rush Limbaugh jabber about it, but then again, he's a professional liar.

 

Is it WRONG to have giggled my ass off for 47 friggin' pages?

 

Not at all. It's not like there's no anti-male sexism, but it's pretty much impossible to discuss it without someone bringing out the whole "and why can't I show a woman some affection without DEFINITELY BEING BURNT AT THE STAKE FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT?!?!?!" line and so on. Basically a lot of anger and bitterness going around for very little reason.

Interesting thing on the radio this morning though, they were talking about the Orange Prize for Literature, which describes itself as "celebrating women's writing" and such. A guy was saying that a women-only literature prize, as well as being discriminatory, was pretty hard to justify in an industry that is actually pretty much female dominated, and certainly one in which women are not a minority.

I wonder what people think of that.

 

feminist stuff always annoys me... like oh women are these big sensitive things that have to be all guarded or something. When the majority of women I have met seem to be actually less sensitive then me...

or maybe I just see it like that cause I grew up with an older sister that was somewhat ruthless

 

OOOO. yeah, older sisters. i know a lady who has 4 daughters and she's about to have her first boy. i REALLY feel for that poor kid. sisters are fucking evi. i know, i AM one and i HAVE one. we're awful.

 

Have you considered the possibility that you're just a wuss?

 

no. i giggled for a good deal of it, too.

 

who? me? hell yeah.

 

Haha, nah, sorry, it was meant for the dude who thinks women aren't sensitive just because he gets pussy-whipped.

 

oh. well i can't answer for him. however, i think maintaining a few sensitive males is probably a good thing.

 

As long as we still have a few rugged ones to chop our logs and wrestle our sharks, I'm down.

 

men do that? really?

 

im not a wuss... I could still chop logs and build cabins
I dont know about wrestling animals... Id rather just eat fruit and vegetables
I could work the plow...

which you may be thinking "a vegetarian village? youll have no meaty brawly men to be warriors and defend it, it will just get taken over". Yes, but my village and tribe would certainly have better technology to balance that out.

 

or we'd all skirt it if you managed to look like you had leprosy.

 

personally i think that guys should be comfortable with themselves and be empowered enough not to feel threatened by females. hell they couldnt vote for the longest time. most sexual harrasment, rape and domestic violence is done by males...not ladies. of course there are exceptions to everything. sounds like you arent having good sex, no offense:whistling

on another note, im not sure i understand why there are a bunch of chicks on this thread throwing in their 2 cents. do what you want, whatev u know, but isnt this thread called 'mens issues'?? you dont see us in the knitting circle telling the ladies the best birth control method or talking about the best tampons :lol: why? we dont have the perspective on certain issues that you ladies do, and it goes both ways. dont get the wrong idea, im all about everyone doing what they want, im just not sure why there would be a bunch of chicks in the mens section. irregardless, peace and love to all genders and speices.:grouphug:

..::~peace~::.. donny

 

*sigh* again, we've got input on your issues, just as you do on ours. it's not all tampons and erectile dysfunction, you know.

 

To be fair, rape and sexual harassment are rarely seen as the product of legitimate sexual frustration: usually they're a culmination of misogyny, acts of violence willed against all women that just happen to land on a single female target.

Re our comfortableness, I think it's fair to say so if we are threatened, and most definitions, limp-wristed though they may be, regard discrimination as anything where the victim feels discriminated against. There's far less question as to whether they actually have a valid claim.

Now, whether we take this definition up or not, I'd still argue that there are inequities between the genders that go both ways, both in legislature and in social attitudes. Many of us still cling to sex-discrimination, under the guise of "common sense" - the idea that you mustn't hit a woman because she's female, rather than [if/because] she's less able to defend herself, seems pretty engrained in Western culture. These things are at least worth being aware of, even if we then decide that they're a good thing/"part of our culture".

Personally I can't see any advantage to someone's sex qualifying them for different treatment that the other sex cannot claim - e.g. if women can only be searched by female officers, men should only be searched by male officers, since there's no apparent reason why not to do this, but if one can be found, great, let's hear it. If there's a good reason, it'll be obvious, right?

I don't know, have you been to the women's issues forum? I post in there all the time. How would we justify men-only or women-only discussions? All we're doing is to limit the number of perspectives we get on an issue. I don't honestly think this thread would benefit from being men-only at all. Some people here definitely need to get the idea that most women don't actually want to hurt them.

 

Speak for yourself.

TGRR,
Digs the chicks.