(March 23, 2016 at 2:44 am)The Atheist Wrote: It's unfair that men are usually told to flip off in a custody battle. Some men have been made to pay child support for children who weren't theirs because the mother had put said man's name on the child's birth certificate.
Oh, and the whole "women-are-excused-from-the-draft" thing needs to go out the window. Heck, women can pay for their own food on dates. They can open their own doors and pull out their own chair.
And no, I'm not carrying your damn stuff for you.
I have seen much of the gender inequality in my time. It certainly goes both ways. you should have seen the shit that girls could get away with and boys couldn't in the 70's. At the time the sexual revolution was in full swing and like most cultural changes the pendulum would swing hard the other way against the former oppressors (men). Life kinda sucked for me as I tried to be a man but at the same time give full lee way to women and still treat them as if they were "ladies".
I'm all sorts of ready to give full equality. For instance, I wont start a fist fight just to win an argument against anyone man or woman but should the woman feel as if it is nesseccary to do so I dont see the problem with using due force (to fight until the opponent stops fighting you but no further). When i was a child a if you offended a girl in the slightest she felt it was okay to hit your balls in retaliation. The sad fact was that if you came back at her you were the wrong one. funny memory; my first fight was with a girl (at 6 years old so she was bigger). I dont remember what i did or said but she kicked my in the "jimmies" but her kick was not well placed so did not do the damage she sought. I didn't know how to fight so i just mimicked what she did. My shot found the mark and down she went. Guess who was in trouble for defending himself.
It's a well known fact that women get preferential treatment in custody battles due to our culture on women and child care.
It may take some strength to carry military gear into combat but it takes little to no strength to pull a trigger.
The whole date thing is a way for a man to prove he can be a good provider by paying for the date. This too is rooted in culture and evolution from the days when women had to spend most of their time looking after children that had a good change of dieing. Now the woman has just as many opportunities as the man for employment and children are much more likely to live.
As far as child support goes, I had no problem stepping up to pay my share (in fact i did). I had a problem when upon attempting to got to college and better my employment (and therefore more money to give to my children) I was told to fuck off and keep paying the same amount despite cutting my wage in 1/3 (to go to school) but she was given grant after grant because she had our child. It is as if the culture treated the woman as a victim in the pregnancy and I the culprit.
I'm good with understanding the responsibility. you lay you pay. The process of getting to the parent equality point is going to take some time since the culture of inequality is 1000's of years old.
