Letters to the Editor
brightstar65
Published Letters: 3526 Editor's Choice: 16
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Is a boy allowed
[Read the article: Fishing for boys, pedicures for girls]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to join the girls to paint his toenails and sting beads and then grow up to be a productive hetero man who is not punished by women for having been a girlish boy?
Call me when that happens.
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Reediculous
[Read the article: Working women's wife envy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]create a generous enough system of social benefits that women WILL voluntarily reproduce at replacement levels or at least fairly close to it.
So patently ridiculous it is nearly not worth commenting over. Europe is dying out and their social programs are far greater than in the US.
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Beer
[Read the article: Working women's wife envy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]counter to your accusations, my politics (which range all over the map) have never entered in to my ability to get into women's pants.
Something I would totally agree with. While many women like to disparage men for their opinions by telling them no woman will like them for what they think, we both know women sleep with whomever is good looking to them and who says what they want to hear. It is too easy really.
The point is, I don't think women really do anything as a monolithic group. That's one of the reasons why I find your posts disturbing is that you seem to imply that all "women" operate one way and that all "men" should feel another way about women (or else, in your view, they're not real men).
But you can not deny that there is a dominant meme in a society, a common thread of thinking. Or else you should be accusing women of fomenting hatred against men for the men supposedlly all having similar opinions (in the women's minds). Certainly, I have discovered recently that I and EVERY MAN hold the burden of being judged before we are even KNOWN by many women simply because a few bastards go around breaking women's hearts, and, since we are men also, the women do not have a problem painting EVERY MAN with the same gender wide brush.
Another reason I don't like your tone is that you sound kind of like a whiner. That's unmanly, if I can use that term. There are always losers out there who like to hold other people responsible for their failures. I guess my feeling has always been, don't become one while you fight their rhetoric.
You are probably relatively new to this board. I have mentioned several times that I hit back in the same style as I perceive women attacking men. Meaning I whine and moan. If it bothers you, think how much it grinds on my nerves when women whine about their problems to me.
But the real reason why your attitude bothers me is that I have four daughters. When I think about a guy looking at these beautiful women and resenting them for laughing, just because they're women, it makes me see red.
A woman's laugh and voice is one of the most beautiful sounds to me. I also like happy women who are happy to be female and to be alive (not like most feminists seem to be by their constant pissing and moaning). Cackling is not laughing but the stereotypical hyena like sounds associated with witches. There is a WORLD OF difference between laughing and cackling. Sorry I failed to make this clear.
Listen, you may be a decent guy I could have a beer or 12 with. I don't know. The internet makes everyone sound more extreme than they really are. But I'm just cautioning you that women and men are both human beings, with views that diverge based not only on gender (what we used to call "sex", heh), but also on race, economic status, and so forth.
Agreed.
I think the feminists you resent represent a very tiny slice of women's political presence and views. Broadsheet pretty much focuses only on white upper middle class issues. So it makes me mad when you make judgments about "women" and snide and silly criticisms of the whole group based on that.
I guess I am guilty of liking self-actualized women. I get bored with housewife types who do not have an education or an active mind. Unfortunatley, in the states, this means many if not most of these educated women have been exposed greatly to feminist ideology and either accepted or rejected it or somewhere in between. But all of them ABSORBED the basic tenets. Now, many women may claim to disagree with the common accepted feminist ideology, but there is no doubt many women are more than glad to take advantage these days of the opportunities the current legal and social system grants to them, even if they claim not to be feminists. The legal system is a zero sum game in many ways, with women punishing the men with the laws they have pushed on men. I do think times have changed greatly. In the sixties there was not so much vehement hatred towards men, there was not so many laws pitted against men. Men I might add who all suffer under laws designed to stop the few bad men out there, but under which WE ALL SUFFER. Times have definitely changed.
As for your comment about 'being a man', I always despised that line, even in middle school. I do not think women are held to such strict standards, so I do not see why I or any man should either.
You are a generation older, be happy. Men today have it much tougher, as evidenced by numerous statistical studies and polls showing men crumbling under the current regime.
But that is how it is, when men make laws it is designed to help everyone, to greater or lesser success. Women force laws that help only women. Hence, to me, men have far more compassion and value to a society than do women.