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and that a lot of the ideological posturing and rigidity doesn't reflect how poeple really behave; but like victorian attitudes towards sex and current right wing attitudes towards homosexuality the ideological insistence that there is one right way for everyone does real damage to the public discussion
any attempt to challenge the ideology of gender sameness/female supremacy unleashes a torrent of bitchiness.
in this situation are being sacrificed to politics. It is unacceptable to treat boys and girls differently and unacceptable to allow this for everyone so females can be jailed and boys subjected to reeducation, I mean therapy, when no one harmed anyone, solely to create social conditions supposedly beneficial to completely uninvolved third parties. This sort of thing should be carefully scrutinized, not casually tossed off to satify prudery or the desire of some women to keep men in line.
i hate black people vs i hate white people
and
i hate gay people vs I hate straight people
life to tolerate any transplant, so cosmetics will never be an issue. By the time we know enough to engineer a foregin transplant which won't be rejected we will likely know enough to create replacement tissue from the persons own dna
who don't REALLY care about sex, i.e. those who are capable of being "happily" single from those who do so time is not pointlessly wasted?
residents of them who are doing this to make sure there are no accusations of "fraudulent" marriage
has been made? It's true the US had a right (unlike the case in Iraq) to invade Afghanistan for reasons other than helping the Afghans but the situation has been allowed to go completely to hell.
as a current gay being hetero. I guess the gender-identity-and-sexual-orientation-are-all-social-constructs crowd finally found somebody to buy their load, I think they both agree that Howard Stern is Satan too.
"knows" she's a virgin. I guess she would know whether it was her first time or not, regardless of the state of her hymen, unless she "can't remember" in which case the state of her hymen, from her point of view anyway, would seem beside the point.
"abstinincers" here are willing to talk a line of shit and tell others what to do but they're not interested in putting themselves on the line.
a shit about it, unlike all the women who start foaming at the mouth any time men show interest in young(er) women. Are you so obsessed with your my way or the highway viewpoint that you are mentally blocked from even recognizing when it is being questioned?
their emotions to try and take the real facts into account and try and create a system that works for everyone. I see no sign that significant numbers of EITHER those who identify with "tradtional values" OR women who identify themselves as "feminists,liberals" etc are interested in anything other than using any means at their disposal to impose on everyone an ideology and a system that gratifies their own pre-existing beliefs, prejudices and resentments.
eachs performs on measured tasks and what the consequences are for the job market. If all jobs are equally divided will we then have achieved uptopia? There is the question of how and why men and women interact with each other. That is where the real conficts are and until women are willing to restrain themselves and compromise in THIS area, as men do, there can never be mutual happiness. It borders on disingenuousness to say it's only about jobs.
specifically out of the hymen breaking aspect of losing their virginity?
If nothing anyone did made any difference there would be no point in doing anything. The trick is to figure out how to help effectively, which is difficult on all levels, individual and collective. One thing we know with ABSOLUTE certainty: If allowing people to suffer without doing anything solved problems all problems would have been solved long long ago.
would want to have sex (at least not with a male). Those crazed fundies come up with the wierdest shit don't they.
be taken seriously by himslf or anyone else, is seen or heard in public in a manner in any way displeasing to women, women are being horribly victimized and can and should see themselves as the abused victims of a male dominated culture. It's true that men don't particularly like looking at ugly women, but women certainly can and do look and listen to them often enought in public AND on TV.
if they had they would have been denounced by the huge majority of women whose devotion to a society where everyone is valued for only the right reasons and by standards which apply equally to all is total and beyond question.
Do you think that any commerically tainted interaction between men and attractive women should be illegal? Do you think that with proper reeducation and training men will be uninterested in interacting with the kind of women who are in Playboy? Do you think that in a properly organized society no man would have the opportunity to engage in this sort of thing without being seen and punished socially and thus deterred? What? I suppose if all women boycotted any business engaging in this that it might be slightly less visible, but so what.
but since you bring it up this is an area where a compromise between men and women is needed. To say men shouldn't be interested in hot women, I'm not saying they should act on it, would be the equivalent of men telling women, oh I don't know, maybe that they are required to stifle all expression of complaint about men to anyone ever.
Glad we cleared that up, thank God the wingers will be out some day and the sane people in charge.
for men because it's all just skin. I don't know how they get away with it for women either really
This is news?
Who could ask for more?
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