RE: The Irish just went full retard - Legalizing gender discrimination
January 17, 2017 at 6:45 pm
(January 17, 2017 at 4:11 pm)Shell B Wrote:(January 17, 2017 at 3:53 pm)CanOfMountainDew Wrote: Just because a legal right doesn't confirm your narrative, it doesn't stop being a legal right.
Don't act as if I only acknowledge that which "confirms my narrative." That's not what's happening and it's not a fair argument.
Quote:Women are protected under law to have genital integrity. There is a specific law that forbids female genital mutilation. This law doesn't include men, and men have no specific law of their own to protect against genital mutilation. This is a legal right women have that men don't.
Again, we're legally protected because of an insanely abusive practice that leads to horrific side effects. It doesn't mean we have more rights. That said, it seems the majority of adult white men in this country prefer to be circumcised for religious regions. That isn't the case for adult white women, so it's not really a fair argument. While I do think males should be able to make this decision for themselves, it's just not a good example. On the flip side, you could say men have a right to be circumcised and women don't because it's illegal to circumcise a woman, so if I wanted to for religious reasons, I couldn't. I mean, whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, if we're going right by right here, we're still even.
Quote:Also men have to sign up for the selective service to acquire a whole host of rights that women get by default. Acquiring these rights by default is a legal right women have that men don't
Catch up with the times, yo. That's not a thing anymore or is soon to be not a thing anymore.
Quote:I gotta' be honest. While white men in a first world nation in 2017 are undoubtedly one of the most privileged demographics to ever exist on this earth, I'd say there's just one demographic that beats them in that regard; white women.
Wow. Eyes meet wool. Again, there is one area where that might be true. In others, it just isn't. Unless you're living the most sheltered life ever, I can't understand how a woman can't recognize the obstacles in her path. Have you pursued careers, taken time from work to care for children, etc.?
"Again, we're legally protected because of an insanely abusive practice that leads to horrific side effects. It doesn't mean we have more rights."
In fact it does. The law that prohibits that abusive practice creates a legal right for women under that given legal system. That's the definition of a legal right. There's not a law that parallels that law but for men. Therefore women have every right men do, in the US, + this one which is specific to them: They have more legal rights in the US than men.
"Catch up with the times, yo. That's not a thing anymore or is soon to be not a thing anymore."
Are you going to argue that men don't have to sign up for the selective service to receive rights that women get just for existing? If not I don't understand the snark. This is yet another legal right which women have that men don't.
"Wow. Eyes meet wool. Again, there is one area where that might be true. In others, it just isn't. Unless you're living the most sheltered life ever, I can't understand how a woman can't recognize the obstacles in her path. Have you pursued careers, taken time from work to care for children, etc.?"
Yes, it's so hard being a woman, having not only more rights granted to me by my government but also getting advantages from gender-quota affirmative action in hiring practices and scholarships. much wow very hard life /s
