(November 28, 2012 at 9:14 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: It's amazing how easily the more liberal members of this board quickly dismiss a war on men as absurd and at the same time jump on the idea that it is equally absurd that a war on women is not going on.
Did you read the article? It is absurd to claim there is a war on men siimply because gender roles are being redefined. The author then goes on, by mere assertion I might add, to paint all women as angry man-haters that are destroying men's natural desires to play the role of provider and protector. Then she has the nerve to claim that women need a man in their life to "balance" it, another mere assertion, as if somehow life is a "one size fits all" endeavor. It should be clear to all that this should be easily dismissed as absurd.
As for the absurdity of claiming at a war on women is not going on, no, there is no "war." We are, however, a long ways from having equality between the sexes. And can you not understand how women might feel under attack when men are doing such things as trying to deny them the right to have their insurance company provide them with contraception, yet they have no problem with insurance companies floating the bill for a drug that will ensure they can pop a boner well into their golden years?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
