And what are you going to do if I don’t? Call me names? Make up more “loser” stories?
I said hi to a lot of women. But I married the one who approached me first.
Wow, how very desperate of you.
Lucky her…
Sarcasm duly noted. Perhaps you’re mad that no woman thought you worthy to approach. Poor you.
Or maybe you’re scared to ask more of a woman.
I sincerely hope so. But which positon do you have to take? Hmmm, on second thoughts don’t answer that!
Any position that has you taking the woman’s side. If you want to get laid, never disagree with a woman!
Yep, you got it right. I’m the one that’s scared… <queue cuckoo clock chime>
She thought she was going to make a quick $50 but she hit the jackpot!
You’re the one here fighting against equality, not me. No doubt because you fear your hopes of ever growing a pair of your own will be dashed if that happens.
Have fun living your life the way others dictate!
Stupid drone.
If hiding behind your silly “equality” argument makes you feel less like a loser, knock yourself out.
What’s so silly about equality?
Stupid drone.
It’s always about getting a guy’s money with your kind. And I mean your kind, which is not at all a woman, but rather a sad parody of a woman.
Finally! An actual list of answerable concerns. Only took like 70 pages. So, hey, Jacq: I don’t think you’re misogynistic or a loser or what have you; I just think you’re wrong. I need to emphasize this; I am not and will not be calling you any names except for wrong.
Right, OK. I say we do have “one set of behavioral rules and one set of laws for both genders” (with one exception, notable, covered below). First, quick background. I am 34 years old, male. In July I’ll celebrate my tenth anniversary. My wife asked me out the day we met. I work for a very large company (you’d recognize the name); my immediate supervisor and her supervisor are both women, but the Vice President who oversees both of them is male.
I challenge you to demonstrate the existence of the disparity; I have never observed it and contend that it does not exist. When I was in high school, I suffered from considerable lack of self-esteem, and wolves were conspicuously absent. I didn’t get a ton of dates, no, but girls with similar self-esteem problems generally had similarly unsuccessful dating lives.
I don’t know what this means. I am male. My standard dress ranges from sweatpants and a T-shirt (running to WaWa on a Sunday morning) to suit; I have literally never heard any “judgmental nonsense” about the way I am dressed from another adult. I spent three hours last night with a group of nine friends, five male and four female, and I cannot tell you what any of them were wearing. I see no disparity here.
Again, you’re imagining a disparity where none exists. I was petrified to talk to women for years, and I didn’t get any dates. My female friends who were petrified to talk to men similarly spent Friday nights at home. Neither I nor they experienced much sympathy or much scorn. The only people deserving of “scorn,” in my view - male or female - are the ones who spend all their time whining about not being able to find someone to love. That’s annoying, but in an entirely gender-neutral kind of way.
I agree with you on the “boys are stupid” thing, but seriously: how common is that? I’ve never seen one worn by an adult. I’m sure there’s a market for it, but it’s small and represents a minority opinion; I certainly can’t see it as anything like a societal trend.
What’s wrong with “juicy?”
Here’s the one place you have a point, I think. It’s weird that men are required to register and women are not. It bothers me relatively little, though, for the following reason: we are almost certainly never going to have another military draft. As long as we don’t, it’s an academic question. If circumstances ever get severe enough to warrant a military draft, I’ll guess that we’ll be in a situation where the gender imbalance here will be corrected post-haste for practical reasons.
Susan Smith received life in prison. Some women with mental illnesses have been institutionalized rather than imprisoned for killing their children, but the same is true of some men with mental illnesses. The recognition of mental illness as a mitigating factor against certain crimes is long-established and has nothing to do with gender, so I’m not going to argue it here. I don’t understand your opposition to plea bargaining, but I also don’t see what it has to do with anything. Generally speaking, though, a sane woman who kills her kids will get the same punishment as an equally sane man who kills his kids, given identical circumstances. Next?
In what ways do you think the law is not gender-blinded with respect to domestic violence?
Um… OK. I don’t think that’s going to prove the point you want to prove, though, since mostly men are paid more than women.
Nah. Pass. I’m in favor of crazy people having the right and opportunity to express their opinions; makes it easier to identify them and keep an eye on them.
Storyteller, I don’t say this enough, but I want to have your adopted babies.
Our wives would probably object. 
And a sensible series of responses, too.
This opinion of men with emotional baggage is quite common:
On the other hand men put up with women’s emotional baggage all the time:
http://www.cosmo.intoday.in/cosmopolitan/story.jsp?sid=6679
Now granted I know everyone here says they’re too uppity to read Cosmo, but you can also take this as an invitation to show me counter facts.
I’m sure you’ve heard of the phrase “bitterboy”, right?
The judgemental nonsense I am talking about is related to Kathleen Passidomo and her comments about the Cleveland, Texas gang rape.
Wait, is this not the same Planet Earth where men are traditionally required to make the first move?
I can find a hundred examples of where this tradition is mentioned… which one do you find to be credible?
http://blog.match.com/2011/03/28/dating-in-america/
And Men are still obligated to pay for the date. While you’re at it, look up “Hypergamy”. I’d like to see an end to that, but then I’d like to see world peace, too. And global socialism.
It’s sold to children; which is even worse.
On the butt of your teenaged daughter’s pants? I’ll let you answer that.
And that, I doubt. The first woman POW raised hackles to the moon in America back in the Iraq War; to have a lot of those, or the threat of it? America would go bonkers.
Susan Smith will get out after 25 years.
It’s well known in America that women get lesser punishments than men for killing their kids:
I guess I should be happy about America. Some other countries outlawed the death penalty specifically for women who kill their kids:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2922347/
Uh, yes it does.
Uh, no they won’t. The jury usually sees to that.
If VAWA allows any legal protection for men at all, then it should not even be called VAWA. If a woman smashes a pan upside a man’s head how does he expect to prosecute her under the Violence Against WOMEN Act? And even if they could, society harasses them when they try to. There are as many battered men as there are battered women, but very few shelters for men.
Then you do not get my point. This is not about getting back at women, it is about equality. Any post about general equality issues that doesn’t address wage disparities cannot be a post about equalism.
Have you ever seen “Are Women Necessary?” on a bookstore shelf?
Oh and there were some Justice Department studies back in the 1980s that showed clearly that male offenders got harsher sentences than women offenders for the same crimes. I cannot for the life of me find these two studies.
Nope, i have literally never even seen that term until i read your post. And Googling doesn’t really help. Can you explain this cultural term that you seem to believe tells us something about gender relations in America?
Please show me where, in your linked article, it says that women get lesser punishments than men for killing their kids.
I read the article through twice, from start to finish, and could not find it anywhere. In fact, the word “men” does not even appear in that article, and the author makes no attempt to compare sentences for men and women. The only thing the article has to say about lesser punishments is that some women get lesser punishments than other women for killing their kids, depending on circumstances of the case, which state it is in, etc., etc.
You citation is completely dishonest, because it never says what you claim it says.
This is getting sad. No, sad was about three weeks ago. Once again, gotta bump this up every three days, like clockwork. Just can’t deal with people not talking about him, so he’s gotta talk about himself and try to sucker someone else into responding. This will be my last post in this thread. Can we all agree to make it the last non-LJ post in this thread, too?
Does anyone else think that LJ might actually be Phillip from this season’s Survivor?
It was sad as soon as you idiots began your misandrist war against equality, which was what caused this thread to begin in the first place.
Go scurry along. Equality scares you too much for you to be around here.