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Thursday, May 1, 2008 09:26 AM

Hey, any 12-year-olds care to weigh in?

After tiring of DimBulb65's incoherent rants, and his incessant whining over how all anyone ever does is attack him, instead of his ideas, I put to him a simple challenge, asking him to describe from his own point of view, in 20 words or less:

1. Describe the essence of feminism.

2. Describe the essence of liberalism

His reply (?):

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Twenty words? The definition depends on several factors.

a. The theoretical definition, or the practical application?

b. The definition as defined by insiders, or as defined by outsiders?

The essense of 'feminism'...

From the standpoint of a feminist: Feminism is about equality and equal rights for women and greater opportunity for all.

The practical results of feminism differ greatly from the theoretical propagandistic model. Feminism is about women hurrting or destroying men as fast as possible, taking men's few powers and rights away, including the right to feel safe in one's domain, the right to feel close to one's children, the right to feel free to express one's opinions, etc, ad nauseam. Women do this by acting irrationally, demanding crazy things, trashing men at every turn, denying men their humanity, forcing laws that hurt and abuse men, basically instituting a permanent second class status for men who cannot PAY their way out (who are not wealthy).

buy it or deny it, it is irrelevant. Ask twenty random people on the street, a good plurality WILL largely AGREE with my description in the prior paragraph, given they do not feel the need to answer politically correctly merely to PLEASE the questioner.

As for liberals?

They used to be respected and respect worthy. But then I no longer believe in ANY '-ism', having become pretty damn well a nihilist since I realized the soft coup of the Bush cabal went largely unchallenged. A nation of illegitimate simps who apparently deserve ALL the rancor inimical forces can come to bear on them. I did my soapbox thing for seven fucking years. To what end?

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Positing that anyone who can't explain even a complex concept to a 12-year old is a charlatan, how do y'all think he did?

Help me out here, people- there is still smoke coming out of my ears.

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