America & Sexism

Originally posted by Bardock42
I can see how that argument can be made on an individual level, especially when you disregard socialization and advantages/disadvantages from birth as well as luck. However I don't think it can be extended to genders on a whole. There are many women much smarter and stronger (though we should remember that women have been raised to be weak and meek for a long time) than men and they have the same disadvantages based on their gender.

Additionally the emphasis of strength and intelligence (whatever that vague thing is) is somewhat arbitrary, why not agility or instinct...or as social animals that we are why not empathy?

A consequence of patriarchy is the attribution of certain desired traits to the male gender, and undesirable ones to the female gender. Of course it's not as black and white as that, but something to start thinking about.

ahhh. people are to smart for their own good. too many fluffy feeling and words. the bottom line is, we are still animals. when things truly turn to shit, the strongest is at the handle end of the sword. the ruling class is a representation of this, just changed throughout the years.

Originally posted by Raisen
doesn't it seem natural that the one in charge is there because he was smarter or stronger or had some kind of quality that exceeded everyone else's?

Not remotely, not. Why? Do you think that?

People who say they have power or authority that is being denied to them are deluded about what power or authority is.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Not remotely, not. Why? Do you think that?

People who say they have power or authority that is being denied to them are deluded about what power or authority is.

was there a fourth musketeer?

Originally posted by Raisen
unnecessary

They were the whitest, richest, most masculine people I could think of 🙁

Originally posted by Raisen
i'm suggesting you know nothing of los angeles ghettos, or anything resembling such. I

and you don't know shit about Winnipeg... what's your point?

Originally posted by Raisen
ahhh. people are to smart for their own good. too many fluffy feeling and words. the bottom line is, we are still animals. when things truly turn to shit, the strongest is at the handle end of the sword. the ruling class is a representation of this, just changed throughout the years.

I disagree, the system we have created (as well as technological advances, guns for example) have changed this equation, and it has been changed for many millennia now. Strength is of little matter in society now at all socioeconomic steps, and it has been unimportant at the ruling level in most societies since before Hammurabi.

Originally posted by Raisen
was there a fourth musketeer?

man, what does Digi have to do to get recognition here?

i'll be back in a bit. Need to cash my welfare check before they turn the damn lights out

Originally posted by Oliver North
man, what does Digi have to do to get recognition here?

I forgot how many of you guys there were. symmetric is definitely part of your team tho

Originally posted by Raisen
i'll be back in a bit. Need to cash my welfare check before they turn the damn lights out

because you are the only person who has been late on bills... 🙄

Originally posted by Raisen
was there a fourth musketeer?

There were hundreds of musketeers. And the book itself does indeed deal with four musketeers (D'Artagnan as the protagonist being excluded from the title)

Originally posted by Raisen
was there a fourth musketeer?

There was a whole legion of musketeers, both in Dumas' novels and in real life. Of the four main characters in the series their status as musketeer varies through the course of the story but by the end all have spent some time as members of the Royal Musketeers.

Why?

Originally posted by Bardock42
There were hundreds of musketeers. And the book itself does indeed deal with four musketeers (D'Artagnan as the protagonist being excluded from the title)

you must remember that i'm a conservative according to oliver. the only thing I know about musketeers is what I read on the wrapper. apparently they were from mars................

Originally posted by Raisen
you must remember that i'm a conservative according to oliver. the only thing I know about musketeers is what I read on the wrapper. apparently they were from mars................

I think Oliver said he himself is a conservative. You may have misread his post.

Also, I think there's a US Conservatives love the second amendment joke somewhere in there, but I can't find it (perhaps being in love with their muskets?)

Originally posted by Bardock42
I think Oliver said he himself is a conservative. You may have misread his post.

he certainly doesn't come off as a conservative.

anyway, got to go cash my check

I looked at the poll results of the mysandry poll.

http://poll.pollhost.com/a2dhZGEJMTM0MTEyMzQxNglFRUVFRUUJMDAwMDAwCUFyaWFsCUFzc29ydGVkCTA/

Originally posted by Oliver North
also, I'm just going to go ahead and point out the blatant hypocrisy in what you are claiming:

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the first point suggests things are equal, while the second suggests they can't be.

good thing your mouth has two sides to talk out of, no?

No, the first does not suggest anything and, instead, suggests gender inequality where men are the lesser and the women the superior. The second states that gender equality is never going to be equal because it's either too much one way or too much another. I said this because he obviously did poorly countering your post, here.

More on topic, I greatly welcome a matriarchal society.

I can then manipulate other women, at work, with my good looks and exposing the top portion of my pecs. And they will have to pay for my meals and hold the doors for me. Whoo hooo! (This is a joke...it needs to be clear that this is a joke because my "good looks" frighten children and scare away vermin).

What you are Misogynists worried about? 313

Poll link doesn't work for me.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Poll link doesn't work for me.

damn. Answer the poll. It will show you the results.

Originally posted by Raisen
he certainly doesn't come off as a conservative.

Define conservative?

I'm pretty liberal but my views on gun laws are beyond ultra-right wing.

Originally posted by dadudemon
damn. Answer the poll. It will show you the results.

I would do so...but the poll link doesn't work for me.

Redirects to http://www.pollhost.com/