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RE: Women. You have men by the balls.(...)
February 19, 2013 at 9:50 am
But the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others?
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RE: Women. You have men by the balls.(...)
February 19, 2013 at 10:03 am
lol.
There are incredibly driven, intelligent, and amazing women out there who SHOULD be in power. And there are incredibly fucked up, psychotic and disgusting women out there too.
No one sex holds all the compassion or forgiveness or mercy in the world. Men are just as capable of it as women. And women are just as capable of holding power with aplomb. This bullshit about us needing to take it from men in order to fix the ills of the world is just ridiculous. Why can't you men simply act like responsible compassionate human beings instead? Why should we have to follow a stereotype of "Grabbing you by the balls"? Isn't that insulting? Doesn't that make you grunting cavemen? Have you so little confidence in your own gender that you think a vagina to be more powerful and less susceptible to ills than a penis?
If you think women are the ones who have the empathy and sympathy necessary to act right and save the world, it's only because you have raised your boys to think that emotions are weaknesses and that to be 'gentle' and solve through reason and diplomacy is effeminate and also weak. You have backed your own selves into a corner in an effort to out-man each other.
I agree with something Moros showed me a long time ago. Be more like Atticus Finch. Care less about your manhood in the face of the public and more about doing the right thing. Then you wouldn't have to come squalling for a bunch of vaginas to smooth over all the bruises and put bandaids on your booboos and wail over your graves.
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RE: Women. You have men by the balls.(...)
February 19, 2013 at 9:48 pm
Fuck all these arbitrary gender roles. Stop worrying about who you are or whether you're living up to someone else's idea of what is socially expected or acceptable and just do what comes comfortably to you.
There are certainly asshole women who are in power. I've heard some nasty things about some of the grand daughters of Sam Walton, for example. Granted, there are still some patriarchial power structures in place which have resulted in more men being in positions of power. That's changing, though, and there are more and more women in positions of power. As it is, women are getting 60% of college degrees nowadays. What's more, if you take 100 women in positions of power and 100 men in equal positions of power, I think you'd find just as many assholes in both groups. Being a jerk is not a gendered trait.
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RE: Women. You have men by the balls.(...)
February 19, 2013 at 10:18 pm
Allow Chris Rock to explain the problem to you.