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If animals have no rights then NO ONE has the right to SET ANY LIMIT AT ALL ON WHAT CAN BE DONE TO THEM BY ANYONE FOR ANY REASON. Since I take it as a given then very few people accept this extreme position the question only remains WHAT SPECIFIC RIGHTS do animals have, or should animals have.
or are you saying that every culture has a right to make a collective decision to do ANYTHING they want to animals, and no one has the right to pressure them?
then there is probably nothing that can be said to change their minds. Obviously people who think there is an issue to be dealt with aren't going to change their minds either.
I don't know what this means, not much, obviously. Condemned criminals don't have the legal right to live but that doesn't mean there are no limits on what can be done to them.
very few people want to take away women's right to vote for instance. Don't try and pretend that it doesn't exist because there is no word for it, or more accurately don't try to prevent people from talking about it because there is no word for it. I agree that the term feminist is not ideal, it means so many things.
but women don't want male ones.
it is highly debatable that this was ever widespread. Obviously the current female supremacist solution is less that ideal, at least from a male point of view, but denial of reality isn't going to produce a solution either. If you mean that no one has yet invented ANY system that works well for everyone, that is certainly true.
they are standing up for their right to have the house kept the way they are entitled to have it. The rule is if you tell someone else what to do and get away with it you are ruling. Women can do as little housework as they like and men can't and don't do a thing about it. Men can't control what women do, no matter how justified they think they would be in doing so. This is the difference.
There is no way they CAN EVER set them because men have no innate leverage; if they make any trouble for the women (in the absence of the man having REAL power which men no longer have) she will cease to be attracted to him sexually and there will not be a relationship (even if they are living in the same house and sharing child care).
are you serious? Most women can CREDIBLY issue the threat you describe (because they are willing to go without if they have to), most men CANNOT (because they aren't). Does the whole issue really hang on this refusal to see or admit the obvious?
is when it is with strippers, porn, or with women where there is no long term expectation on either side. I think you are making my point. Do you women not see how you are contradicting yourselves here? Actually I know that you do.
doesn't exist they cause fatal bleeding if they get very large. If this problem could be overcome men could get pregnant.
since you obviously know what it is and since men aren't allowed to say it or at least can't be listened to if they do. I don't know what it would accomplish though, apart from an honest discussion, which I suppose is why no one does it.
well the liars always knew he was there they just didn't tell the idiots.
far from men getting pregnant I think it is far more likely in the future that NOBODY will. It's on the verge now of becoming like housecleaning; only people without money do it for themselves. In the future the process can probably be automated completely.
the wingers thought that as long as "their people" were in charge they would go after their common terrorist AND culture war enemies and it looks like they were right.
all govts. most emphatically including the Chinese govt. very much rely on Keynesian economic principles to manage their economies. The only ones who ever didn't were ones which due toweakness, whether innate or circumstantial, were browbeaten into trying neoliberal bullshit schemes by well connected Americans, and they all have learned their lesson now.
but I think lots of women would forgo incubating them if they could.
and no amount of bullshit women's studies propaganda will fool anyone with even half a brain. When women get what they want they are not dominating, they are getting what they are entitled too and nothing more. Yeah, we get it.
If it is done with animals and there are problems we will, but if it is more subtle than what can be detected using animals I don't know if people will all refrain.
that is the point. Technology will provide a solution to this problem and then sex WILL cease, more than it has already, except among submissive men, bi and gay men, and men who look like Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise (to pick two examples than may NOT be perfectly applicable but I think the point is clear).
as gay men of comparable attractiveness. I know that some women insist on claiming that they can but it is a lie and every straight man AND every gay man and ESPECIALLY every bi man knows it.
the offspring tend to have the status of the mother and among social mammals it is universally the case that status matters more for reproductive success in males than it does in females. High status helps men more than women, (a woman can have only one kid a year no matter how high her status is), and low status hurts men more because any female can fine someone to knock her up but not every loser male can find a mate.
"If you really loved me you would do it" She said. I'm not making this up.