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Lots of literate people have shitty jobs and might rather do porn or strip or whatever, the days when being able to read and write were a meal ticket are over in case no one has noticed. Pete, the reason people care is because anti-porn and anti-sex activists are trying to tell other people what to do. Nobody is trying to force anyone to watch porn or playboy bunnies, if they were it might make sense to equate the two positions in some way, but they aren't and it doesn't
culturally, etc. in order to be with them and will be attracted to any man with a penis and who isn't actively psychotic, as men are attracted to any women (the non psychotic part is optional) then men will stop seeing women as a reward. I don't think it's men who object to this change being made. Women need to get over their state of denial (I've never been able to tell if this is poliitically conveninet denial or genuine delusion) of the fact that men have to work for it and women don't if any kind of meaningfull discussion is ever to take place.
not a shortage of people willing to be trained to be nurses. Is there a real need for more male applicants now or is there another purpose.
and all the time I thought there was another motive. How sadly cynical can you get.
try again
How long before the whole world is like this, oh yeah, never IF men start behaving properly that is.
get it now?
trouble of organizing a boycott, besides which I am responding to a specific statement where someone, presumably a woman, complained about access to women being seen as a reward, implying there was a problem which should be addressed somehow. Which I did by stating the facts underlying the situation about which she was complaining.
interfering with the "drip guys"s attempt to get the girl. I guess it never occured to me that the drip meant anything until she did something with it. I see now though how there could be a different interpretation but I think it's possible it was intended only as I originally interpereted it.
sentiment, I think. I'm not disputing the existence of true classical homophobia, but the insistence that there is a gay subtext to everyting that happens with all men is pretty annoying to men who actually know that there is nothing there in many cases.
on making it more of what the people who like it want. I mean ask yourself: Is there ANYTHING they could do to make you approve of it and want to watch it?
or medical school requires some intelligence, but the average janitor or stripper isn't necessarily stupider than a "higher" class of person. This fantasy has always been used to justify the status quo. Look at our stupid, I mean that literally, president. Any man who goes on about how stupid strippers or porn stars or for that matter attractive women in general are will be rightly suspected of having an emotional agenda.
are the same thing as talking a girl into taking her top off. Gee why do men have a bad attitute towards the self proclaimed defenders of women.
if any polling or research has been done as to how prevalent this thinking is. Hiding it won't accomplish anything
but I thought the girl seemed really nice. :)
of fear to try and create a climate where people are more submissive to authority. Look at all the poeple who were called traitors for any criticizing Bush anytime after 911. It is disturbing how easy it is for these (semi)latent fascist attitudes to immeidiately acquire great influence anytime something goes wrong. We better make sure nothing ever does.
percentage of the population adherence to "gods law", most specifically no blowjobs, trumps everything, and I mean everything else. The totally illegal impeachment of Clinton proved that. After they got away with that they were willig to do, and believed themselves entitled to do, anything to win, as an examination of the record will show.
He was Clinton's lawyer
they would like to be with women who won't treat them as a total moron slave and if the woman thinks she is smarter that is what she will do. Men, unlike women, don't acquire "rights" in a relationship by anatomy alone, they have to "earn" it by being accomplished and if they can't and the woman lowers herself to be with him he has to compensate her somehow.
The fact is some women do think this way for real and proudly assert the correctness of doing so, I'm satisfied with anything less. Being a man I am of course pathetically tolerant of women behaving badly.
but as long as women are asking with ANY kind of seriouness "Are Men Necessary?" these discussions are going to happen somehow somewhere, and/or there will be other reactions. Unless all men become gay.
I guess someone doesn't think he's funny
wingers, at least the ones who function in a modern society, aren't stupid enough to believe their own bullshit.
only if the man(men) in question has a small(relatively) cock
for accomplishements, social skills, etc (or at least these things are more important to them) then it is logical that the most accomplished and therefore most attractive men(by female standards) would be less likely to be attracted to the accomplished but only average physically and therfore of only average attractivenes(on average) women then such women are to them.