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• Saturday, March 31, 2007 07:15 AM

  They attack women because they don't agree with them

  Sometimes answers are obvious if you step away from your personal feelings.

  Are there men who hate women? Yes.

  Are there women who hate men? Yes.

  Are there white people who hate blacks, Yes.

  Are there black people who hate white people? Yes.

  Jews, Arabs, fat people, thin people, Wasps? Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes. Yes.

  But these facts mislead us to the real problem. .

  When some people disagree with what you've said, they attack whatever they can "target" about you.

  Tom Cruise, the most successful actor of this generation is attacked for being short.

  Rosie for being gay.

  Janet Reno, the brilliant Attorney General, for not being attractive.

  In most societies, the way to attack a woman is her appearance... or her sexual behavior...or her intelligence or simply by spewing hate.

  The way to attack man is to claim he is weak... or his appearance... or his intelligence or simply by spewing hate.

  Everyone who stands up will be attacked. This is reality.

  But historical prejudice blinds the individual. It makes you think "they" are attacking you because you are a woman, or black, or gay, or Jewish, or whatever. No, they are attacking you because they don't agree with you and they target you in any way they can, and being a woman, gay, etc. simply provides them with the target.

  But being attacked is hurtful. So you can't see beyond the hurt to the reality. The same people who attack a woman on the web would defend her if she wrote things they agreed with.

  Now wasn't that obvious?

  —PoliticalRealist Read PoliticalRealist's other letters
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