Gregg R Thomas

@ Simon

Is it any wonder that men are preferring their male friends and “Rosey Palm” to getting involved with women.

A little more common sense from Tom Leykis:

TheEncogitationer wrote:
As with so many others, you use the word “traansactional” as if it is a bad thing.

What would be the opposite of “transactional”? One party giving all to the other party with nothing in return?

Surely a close relationship is the place for generosity rather than cynical bargaining.  Some things are sacred or priceles…[Read more]

@ Simon

Men have a responsibility to support their children ethically and legally. Children need a man in the house because women tend to want to be friends with and not alienate their children. Men, by contrast and ideally, are authoritarian and are more likely to set and enforce rules even if their kids hate them for it. Kids (and women, often)…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
No, the problem women have nowadays is that men are walking away from female reproductive abilities. We men are putting a negative value on having children. So are women, for that matter, until it’s too late for them to find a mate and bear a child.

I’m laying out the fundamental background game plan for the sex differences that w…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
The sperm are plentiful and cheap, yet reproduction is of the highest value.

No, the problem women have nowadays is that men are walking away from female reproductive abilities. We men are putting a negative value on having children. So are women, for that matter, until it’s too late for them to find a mate and bear a…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
I have never thought about the low value of my sperm.

The sperm are plentiful and cheap, yet reproduction is of the highest value.  Females produce a few costly eggs (because they take a lot of growing into a baby).  The reproductive dynamic is different for each sex.  This gives rise to the social differences we se…[Read more]

@ Simon, you may have the gender power dynamic backwards:

Simon Paynton wrote:
The sex differences aren’t so much “men enjoy things, women enjoy people”, than the deep social differences we see in society that encourage men to be kept in charge and women to be kept powerless.

Women are not powerless. Certainly not in the courts. Where does this purported powerlessness manifest itself?

Males and femal…

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Simon Paynton wrote:
Just because something is “natural” – i.e., it exists in nature – doesn’t mean it is good.The alternative to hierarchies of any kind is egalitarianism.

When anything rises to the top in nature, it’s because it’s the most workable (best) of the alternatives.

Why can’t egalitarians settle on a distribution of duties wherein m…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Do you think there’s something unnatural or sinister about these gender divides? Does Vonnegut’s Handicapper General need to step in.

Or maybe, just maybe, we should cherish that women are women and men are men in ways that go fairly deep?

The sex differences aren’t so much “men enjoy things, women enjoy people”, than the deep soc…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
That’s the feminist parody of the relation between the sexes.

It’s the basic social game plan of patriarchy.

Just because something is “natural” – i.e., it exists in nature – doesn’t mean it is good.

The alternative to hierarchies of any kind is egalitarianism.

Pau at age 13 (I think) singing an original song from their Escape The Mind EP for an audience of schoolmates I assume, since they are wearing school uniforms. All I can say is Wow, Just Wow!!!

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen and Simon, “Designed”? “Bestowed”? Am I on the right Forum? 🤔

You don’t think you’re being a little overly literal, perhaps?

Feminist delusions. “Men don’t like me because I’m too pretty and too smart.” Might it be the tattoos? the online posting of photos of your ass? the wacky wardrobe choices? the cigarette smoking?

@ Enco

Cool! Give them weapons and let them eliminate Hamas. By killing a number of noncombatants for every Hamas killed, Israel is simply creating the Hamas soldiers of tomorrow.

Mgtow st the gym.

@ Simon

Men and women have been bestowed disparate talent sets which is a major reason why there’s a gender divide.

Think about why are there no (or at least so few) great woman painters whereas women, at least nowadays, are fully equal to men in the letters? Why no major conductors (the top 10 symphonic orchestras all have male conductors)…[Read more]