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Saturday, July 14, 2007 11:27 AM

I never claimed to speak for all men

I never know who to believe: brightstar, who claims to speak for all men when he says that guys just want to stay home and play mommy and get pregnant and whatnot, and Ben Dover, who claims to speak for all men when he says that guys detest children and only reproduce when forced or tricked by evil women. Hm.

I do think my view are roughly in line with a growing subset of men (that is far larger than women think) though.

Lots of men want to stay home and be the primary caregivers. Women claim to be fair to men about this, but scads of articles point out otherwise, that women resent the so called freeloader men, resent not being closer to the kids than the dad, resent having to do the HARDER LESS REWARDING JOB of being the primary breadearner (again, in contradictionn to feminists' earlier assertions that women's house work was harder than men's office work). So we know women are collectively a bunch of irresponsible vacillating liars. We know men are being dragged thru this muck at women's whims.

As for Dover's assertion, roughly speaking, I do think his view is representative of a large subset of men too. Lots of men feel disconnected from kids and childraising.

Hey, here is the REAL shocker, men come in varied forms.

But the one thing in common is that almost all men (except those invested in keeping their mouths shut for the sake of not losing what little they have to women) are becoming harsher and more unforgiving towards the women in their lives. This is getting better for men as more become divorced from women, fewer marry, and fewer bother to cultivate relationships with women, instead skipping from cow to cow as the milk runs out.

Saturday, July 14, 2007 11:41 AM

BACKLASH?!?

The so-called "backlash" was a preemptively rhetorical ruse to thwart real male resistance. It worked, at least for a while. Now, more and more men are speaking up, fighting back.. The end of vagina monologues nears. I doubt feminizm will survive the coming dialogue.

Are women really claiming there has been a backlash??

If so, they have not seen anything yet.

Just this past year, I have noticed an accelerating amount of material being written by men that MIRRORS the vehemence I have been using for years.

When I say men are waking up, this is not idle chatter, there is a coming storm which women will regret more and more until they are finally forced to admit they are full of shit.

A book I am reading called "Rantings of a Single Male" is one of the first books I've read where the guy is not acting like a pussified little apologist for his gender.

The playing field is slowly being leveled. Men are growing a spine. After all, so many men are now being categorically rejected by women, that they have NOTHING TO LOSE by criticizing modern man despising feminism and the women who worship it.

The following decades promise lots of great gains for men in this zero sum 'hall of mirrors' game.

Saturday, July 14, 2007 11:56 AM

To Dr. Necessimoron

Two soldiers come back from Iraq, injured. One has a broken finger, the other lost both legs. Would you say the first is not injured?

Mutilation of babies before they can consent to it is the box both categories fit into. I know the feminists have trained you otherwise, but please, stick to some logic for the sake of us men.

Another way to put it is the old joke. The guy asks the girl if she would have sex with him for a million dollars. She says yes, He then asks her if she'll do it for forty bucks, since they have already determined she is a whore, and now they are haggling over the price.

Saturday, July 14, 2007 02:04 PM

we agree then

but nonetheless, lets not contribute to belittling MGM even if it is less extreme, after all, lots of FGM is also of the milder kind, but you would find almost ZERO women who would think that milder form of FGM is OK either.

Women seem to stand up for each other's crises, I wish we men would get together to defend our gender more too, the politicians sure ain't doing it for us when they pander to feminists to the exclusion of men (THAT's something which is going to stop).

Saturday, July 14, 2007 02:06 PM

Actual journalism going on somewhere?

Lordy lordy, and I was thinking the media was merely a PR outlet for the powers that bellittle.

Saturday, July 14, 2007 07:54 PM
Original article: Opus

I dare say, old chap

AKASmith's comment to me about two weeks ago...

Here is an amazing what if: What if he [Brightstar] fell in love?

Does he dare to eat a peach? Or will he keep measuring out his life in coffee spoons?

-- AKA Smith

Coincidence???

I think not,

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