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including the freedom to NOT be forced to be sent off to defend this pathetic nation.
In case someone thinks I have an issue with the USA.
Fighting illegal wars, such as Iraq, is BAD. True defense as a need in time of war is fine, and BOTH sexes ought to be on the front lines when and if this is the case.
In this case, I propose, as compensation, that since men have fought the wars for the last 40 centuries, that WOMEN now go off and defend the nation for the NEXT 40 centuries.
hahaha this "eye for an eye" equality would leave the US broken. As we know women are not on the front lines b/c we would FAIL. Men are needed on the front lines b/c they are more capable then woman there. But if I were a guy I'd wonder why I'm expected to die first even though there is all this rhetoric about "equality". I think men and women are inherently unequal, Most people are afraid to acknowledge gender differences, but they exist. How else are women and men naturally different? As a man, what else do u notice that my female eyes may have overlooked?
Though you might not guess, I do not necessarily disagree with you, Christine.
The problem I have is that modern lib fasci, I mean feminism wants women to have all the advantages that men have and none of the disadvantages while ignoring that men might also want the same thing.
Sure, there are lots of things men are better at and women are better at. But modern lib feminists want it both ways, they want to make men and their roles redundant and irrelevant, but they want to deny men the right to return the 'favor'
Now, if society were to put men in certain roles and women in certain roles, with lots of overlap and respect for BOTH sexes, NOT JUST FOR WOMEN, then I might not have a problem with the chivalrous act of having to go to war as a male.
But modern women not only SPIT in the face of men and their traditional roles, but they offer men not only no alternative solution BUT they also want to deny men the right to have social freedom to pursue their own desires and dreams. They want to demonize us men and make us out to be senseless evil robots, of the feminists' frankenstein creation (my thesis for a long time has been that most negative male behavior is men's reaction to men feeling like they are being treated unfairly by the women).
Men exist today as an extra limb in society, a stray umbilicus. Something needs to change, I prefer to let women do as they please (with some limits), AS LONG AS THEY LET MEN ALSO DO AS THEY PLEASE, including ALL of the freedoms and rights women currently DO enjoy that men do NOT.
I am flexible, I just want some resolution and closure. But feminism keeps sticking wrenches in the works and spreading that difference ever wider, only exacerbating the situation (thus, this is why I consider modern feminism EVIL at core).
How else are women and men naturally different? As a man, what else do u notice that my female eyes may have overlooked?
To answer this is not quick and easy. I tend to see things a bit differently than many. I consider men's and women's natural aptitudes to be like intertwined [medical-- cadecus?] snakes or DNA strands, with men being better at some role or task just a bit over from an aptitude women naturally possess. Like a ladder, men then possess a natural aptitude one more step over, back and forth between the sexes. Which is why it is so exciting to be in love, everything is familiar in the other person but slightly fresh and different too.
Men seek to find more of this in life and in love, in the women they are with. Women seem to (slightly) naturally repel themselves from men, so they seem to want to break from this pattern, unless driven by the dream men weave, portraying the romance of love in a way women can understand and appreciate.
Feminism is the dismantling of that DNA style ladder, of the women breaking the connections and telling men to go fly a kite.
I'll thrash you with more tidbits of [possible] wisdom in the future...
who the president is or will be.
They just want their next fix. Any guy smart enough to want to bother would be doing something other than assaulting fatties.
The story stinks to high heaven. I am glad it backfired on the Repulsicans, though I am STILL sad to see this country going down the road of electing Obama.
New World Order Communism, here we come.
unless she was unconscious when he would have been scraping (?) the letter in, it would have been nearly impossible to make those curves in the letter 'B' in the first place. She would have been moving her head around.
To me she looks like some of the low lifes I have rented rooms to in my house in the past, all of them, useless as dirt skanks.
And she is 23? She looks 43! Quit eating the processed foods, people.