Single Men and Bachelors: Feminism is not for you.

[Something completely different]

oh we have my little pony here in germany, it`s just mainly watched by people of my age.

[thesummerqueen]

You see, here, the kids who spend more time reading are seen as "weak" because they don't pump themselves up and play football or other sports and are therefore targets for bullying by anyone who thinks they are "stronger" for doing what is the social norm. That is the nature of a bully - the prey on the weak. That apparently coincides with being a nerd or geek. I didn't suffer much bullying about being a nerd - fortunately I had that small, tight group of friends, and we just stayed out of the way most of the time. My problem was more of a feeling of not belonging. I'm sorry you suffered bullying. But here, where they can't even decide if women have reproductive rights on some days, it's still an issue. That's another thing that pisses me off about the new feminists - they get mired down in bullshit instead of addressing things like that. At any rate...

Btw, Disney just bought Lucasfilm.

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here a kid watches an interview with a sports celebrety or an it-girl and when confronted with the stupidity, is then told by it`s parents: "dont end up like that!"
the bully doesn`t pray on the weak, the bully seeks the admireation of his fellow colleges through the humiliation of basicaly anything. Dont forget that it also happens in offices and other places were "nerds" are unavailable.
I find the "reproduction thing" a bit weird, coming from a country were the social healthcare system provides free contraceptives to women in poverty or between the age of 16 to 18 - or at a low price (60 euros). and i guess that this issue being torpedoed by some fanatic fools makes the womans equality issue a hard thing to eaven debate about.
I dont know much about "new feminism" and if by it you mean A+.
Here, well it`s hard to talk about as a man. My mum has a phd in biology and my dad took care of me while she was working. My ex studied sociology and made it very clear how she would imagine her role in a futur life together.
In average women are still underpayed in germany, but i guess that`s the 70s generation which is still happy with being housewifes.
currently the number of women at college, uni, doing a-levels, succesfully educating themselves is in comparison way higher than the number of men, so i guess things are going to become better here when my generations women leaves their mark on sociaty

[Autumnlicious]

currently the number of women at college, uni, doing a-levels, succesfully educating themselves is in comparison way higher than the number of men, so i guess things are going to become better here when my generations women leaves their mark on sociaty

I see that as an obvious imbalance made to tilt the inequality and unfairness the other way.

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that depends. Some jobs are simply more easy to get if your a man. men are more likely to hire men, there is still a amount of instetutionalised sexism within the employment process.
and my generation has not jet fully entered the workforce and is currently about to start and leave uni.
i am actualy myself not sure what to be expecting, it will be the first time in our nations history that women will be more qualified and smarter than men, one will have to wait and see what the results will be like.

[Autumnlicious]

Institutionalizing sexism to deal with sexism is like using fascism to fight off Nazis.

But then again, I'd advocate dealing with invidious discrimination by actually addressing discriminatory practices rather than ruin swathes of a gender's educational future due to the existence of the former.