Reparations for Women!

Women should be given an apology and major reparations for generations of being victims of physical abuse, murder, and male domination.

They also pay extra taxes to support mostly men in prison and for police forces that protect us mostly from male criminal behavior.

Also, most wars have been caused and fought by men, so women deserve reparations for this reason too.

They also deserve money for all the unpaid child support they are due.

And don’t forget the biggest reason women deserve reperations… they marry us men!! That’s gotta be worth a couple of million, I think! :smiley:

Zev Steinhardt

Hey, this works for me! 'Cause, to be fair, you’d have to pay reparations for the injuries caused to woman in the past. Hell, the denial of voting rights before 1920 should be worth buku bucks.

And since almost all women who were denied the right to vote have passed on, the money would have to go to their descendants - men and women.

Where’s my check?

Sua

I haven’t attacked anyone, started any wars, been in prison, denied you the right to vote, denied you child support, etc. I owe you nothing!

Besides, where would these reparations come from, taxes?

I don’t want to be a drain on the economy, so I’ll settle for the left testicle of each male descended from an oppressor of my ancestresses.

Watch this space for your name!

Does it have to be the left? I like the left one…

Can I still get in on this if my foremothers were oppressed in some way, shape or form that nobody really remembers but by the virture of being women it MUST have happened? I promise I’ll do something really female with the check.

personally, I’d like money----I would hate to lose my amateur standing in testicular collection.

As a man, I’d like reparations for the generations of my ancestors who had to put up with the shrewish whining of YOUR ancestors.

ducks and runs

I don’t have much money, and I’m rather fond of my family jewels, so I’ll have to make reparations in some other way.

Did I mention that I like lollipops?

So as it stands now…

everbody gets reparations except me.

I’m thinking THAT sort of reparations should come in the form of sexual favors. :smiley:

[glaring]Not that cat will be getting any of those any time soon.[/glaring]

So if women get paid reparations, do hermaphrodites get half a share?

I thought reparations are paid after the war is over. I don’t want any money - I’d settle for an end to the violence.
Plus equal pay for equal work and maybe a woman president in my lifetime.

And the left nut of a convicted wifebeater to keep in a jar on my desk.

Sure, just so long as men get paid reparations for:

Risking their lives (as well as losing their lives!) defending women for countless millenia.

The biased justice system that gives men longer sentences than women for the same crimes.

Putting up with the people who insist that women get paid less for equal work, even though this isn’t true any longer (if it ever was).

Putting up with the dangerous, disgusting, or generally unpleasant jobs that need to get done. (Many female garbage collectors? Sewage workers? Factory workers?) I don’t recall the exact figure, but nearly all workplace deaths are male deaths.

Being considered by the general populace to all be potential rapists and abusers.

Silently putting up with abuse from wives and girlfriends, because they know nobody will take them seriously if they try to get help.

Living, on average, 7 years less than women.

Being the target of the large majority of all violent crime.

And finally, for having to put up with the widly-held belief that women, throughout all of history and in all societies at all times, were somehow more oppressed by their restrictive gender roles than were men.

:smiley:

d&r

The next thread should be for animal rights. Dogs, cats, chimps, mice, etc. should get something for all the experiments their ancestors have suffered. Then there are all the game animals. And last but not least is the road kill. “A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you’re talking about some real money.”

Yes, but lets remember women are responsible for the production of more men. Sure so do us men, but when it comes down to it grows in them not us. Oh and if women are going to get reparations, I wanna cut, half my ancestors being women and all who suffered under half of you ancestors. In fact I think you owe me money!

Men are victims of the vast majority of violent crimes. And when it comes to Domestic Violence women men commit less than women.

And murder.

That never happened.

Men pay most taxes anyway…

Want to prove that most wars have been caused by men?

Men not paying child support is a very rare thing. Women are more likely not to pay court ordered support, and to pay less than ordered. Perhaps this ould be even less of a problem if women didn’t get the lion’s share of custody.

Reperations for the poor, denied the vote for thousands of years as they couldn’t afford property (men until 1899, women until 1918 (UK)).