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Friday, May 16, 2008 11:28 AM
Original article: Quote of the Day

That's stupid

So, you say that women earn 98 cents to the dollar. You'd think companies would be hiring women over men, because women are cheaper, but they're not doing this.* Which is it, are women cheaper (98 to the dollar, as you yourself said) or not? You're contradicting yourself.

98 cents ON AVERAGE.

In the vast majority of industries, women and men earn the same amount-- likely by corporate decree. In a few industries there may be a disparity (which may account for much of the remaining disparity), and they may indeed be hiring women over men because women will work for less.

Without the data broken down by numerous factors, it is difficult to analyze, so these are only educated guesses.

Friday, May 16, 2008 10:34 AM

Full equality for EVERYONE?

Polygamists too?

COOL!

Friday, May 16, 2008 10:31 AM

did you make even ONE good point?

He apologized, most likely thinking in the back of his mind, that this woman is WHACKED and that any woman who agrees with her is also whacked. His move was politically expedient.

So you have a direct line to Barry's brain? Was his apology sincere or not?

For you to say this, as if you women do not constantly assert that you know what we men are thinking, is absurd.

But most men and many women laugh at feminists like you. Deep down they only have disdain that this word is even an issue.

You're probably right. Most men and many women also laugh at people who spend their lives designing haute couture, writing poetry and lit crit, painting contemporary art, being ballerins. Most people are mediocre, half-conscious drones who don't want to think too deeply about anything, and have a powerful disdain for anyone who does.

If you are saying feminists are artists, I would agree. Bullshit artists, really.

One can say rubes laugh at feminists, or one can look around and see that feminism is stuck and rotting on the vine and being mocked even AMONG the more prosperous and educated classes. That some smidgeon of far left faux intellectuals still think feminism is the cats pyjamas is irrelevant. Consign them to the scrap heap, they are toast anyway.

And you DO hate men because your arrogance asserts that what you, a select group of particularly man hating women, decides is what the rest of society needs to adhere to.

sorry, but some women still LIKE men.

So, by your logic, the women who still like men do what? Don't try to change society?

So, "liking men" = "shut up and put up"

This is some talent you have. You can make shit up wholesale quite well.

Dictating and strongarming society is quite different from engaging society and discussing issues among all groups then enacting change according to what works best for EVERYONE, not just for assholish arrogant women (at the expense of men).

So far, feminism adheres to the fascistic model, "do as I say, or else suffer social wrath". PEOPLE ARE SICK TO DEATH OF THIS CRAP. The media simps who admire such models are being exposed everyday as tools of the elites.

REAL WOMEN, who can be respected by men and by society, begin healthy DIALOGUES, not threatening monologues (as feminism does).

Friday, May 16, 2008 10:21 AM
Original article: Skirt-chasing as sport

Right Schrier

You give YOUR real self away.

The typical female personal attacks angle. No use actually arguing what the person says on its merit. One has to try to chop down and destroy the messenger.

This must be why feminism is so successful at making headway into society lately, the vaunted female talent of listening to what people actually have to say, regardless of gender, color, or class status. har har

It is why I no longer listen to women, they are poison to actual intellectual discussion, preferring ad homeinems.

Friday, May 16, 2008 10:18 AM
Original article: Skirt-chasing as sport

I could roll

You said: I think it would be EQUALLY AS FUNNY if they were ravenous, sexstarved FEMALE convicts chasing sissy, liberal men (with or without their skirts).

Save that I am not a sissy, am centrist libertarian, and hate to run and risk ruining my knees, I could roll with that.

But a nice, airy skirt would have to be de rigeur, hardly the stuff of jogging.

Friday, May 16, 2008 10:16 AM
Original article: Skirt-chasing as sport

Oh, panask

and that is ONE REASON why women get so little respect from men.

Friday, May 16, 2008 10:15 AM
Original article: Skirt-chasing as sport

Panask

I exaggerate.

In the same way women exaggerate when they say ALL MEN ARE TESTOSTERONE POISONED.

But the truth cannot be denied. When pressed by men, MOST women NATURALLY fall back on the position that what they think and do does not have to follow logic and can change at anytime. Really, kind of what spoiled kids do.

Friday, May 16, 2008 10:12 AM
Original article: Skirt-chasing as sport

Cataract

By your stupid post, I am beginning to believe it when men say women are mentally ill.

Women have the curling irons and men the weapons? Women RULE the roost! Most men cower within their marriage and PRETEND they are not cowering. Women rule the social sphere of society. They tell us men what to THINK, what to DO, and how to ACT-- the media being the cudgel, the force acting on us all to tell us men what we are supposed to be so you women ACCEPT us. Mothers raise boys from zero to five, then other women take over and train boys from 5 to 18.

IS THIS OVERWHELMING INFLUENCE STILL NOT ENOUGH? No, of course not, despite all this, men still refuse to act like women with PENISES.

That you continue to REFUSE to square this absolute and comprehensive REALITY with your fantasy tells me and other men more about your delusional wishful 'thinking' than anything.

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