Unseen

@ Simon

Her point, since you missed it, is that there are no gold standard statistics and yet these 1 in 4 or 1 in 6 “statistics” are bandied about as if they are true.

Also, what is a rape is a matter for definition. In the movies of the past, men often grabbed a woman and kissed her. Some advocates today would call that at least a sexual…[Read more]

Your statistics are bogus:

She is a conservative feminist (not an oxymoron). Don’t pull a poisoning the well on me by rejecting the source out of hand. Instead, tell me how she’s wrong.

Simon Paynton wrote:
But the patriarchy isn’t voted in. It’s actually a fundamental orientation of males, given the male-female reproductive differences where the male gives up millions of cheap sperm while the female carries a few costly babies. So, the male reproduces by finding as many females as possible, and the female by finding as much res…

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Belle Rose wrote:
My biological Mom died today 😢

So sorry. Staying active and interested is always the best way to keep from going off the rails.

Simon Paynton wrote:
@unseen – you seem to be thrashing around somewhat in your efforts to say that patriarchy doesn’t exist, or that women like being oppressed, or something.

“…or something.” So, you admit at the start that you are arguing strenuously against something you don’t really understand.

The patriarchy we have, such as it is, is thr…[Read more]

Davis wrote:
You are indirectly victim blaming. Zheesh. We get ride of crime by stopping criminals and not enabling them. Again, people can do everything any other reasonable person would, and still be a victim. Your attitude simply enables things to go on the way they always have and makes it hard to change things.

Blame? You blame someone for…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
Because men hold onto their power by force, and by more insidious, manipulative means.  Women go along with it because they’ve been told it’s right / don’t want to be slut-shamed etc.

So, men are engaged in a sinister conspiracy, fearful of out of control women (I guess). Meanwhile, you depict women in a way that almost…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
All the women I know have been raped and/or spiked and/or had domestic violence.  None of the men have, although a couple were abused as children.

I reiterate that either your choice of circles you move in is pretty poor or you’re the butt of a cosmic randomness joke.

Thinking back, I only know of three women who I know…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
Anecdotal. I heard about it happening to actual people, and also the feminists were complaining about it.

Come on Simon. Even you has to know that such evidence only prove you have questionable taste in whom you choose as friends and associates and the wife-beating circles they move in. Either that or The Gods of Randomness…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
Wife-beating used to be the norm in left-wing circles, long before they got into feminism.

If I express a huge degree of skepticism, what proof or even evidence tending to support that assertion do you have?

@ Simon

But the domination of women’s sexuality in the U.S. is not done by men per se but by one political party, pretty much with the assent of its female members.

I don’t see liberal democratic/Democrat males playing much of a role, so I don’t see it as a gender thing.

@ Simon

So, you’re saying that males treat women like a resource and compete for that resource and that is how patriarchy comes about(?).

@ Simon

Males as a group don’t gang up against females as if we are in a competition with them for some kind of resource or advantage. That’s patent nonsense.

I think it goes back to the days when if you wanted meat, you had to go out and fight for the bigger critters that could sustain the group for a while. You can snare a rabbit or shoot a…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Old fashioned parenting would go a long, long way. In fact, there is not much wrong with society that great parenting can’t help to make much better. We could use parenting schools, IMHO. I’m sure that government can spend and do more to help raise poor kids. Is that what we really want and does it even work?

Every ethnic gro…[Read more]

Question for y’all who claim not to be Islamophobic, if you’re not Islamophobic, what does an Islamophobe look like? How do you define it?

_Robert_ wrote:
Actually, I’m OK with that concept. But I know the far left isn’t. Black Americans do need to take a hard look at why black on black murder is the leading cause of death for young black males. Oh, but that’s racist! Remember, feelings are the most important thing, more important than murder.

So, if it’s not the much higher rate…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
They don’t need your creepy patriarchy camera anymore with millions of young girls essentially doing porn in their bedrooms. They will have their fatherless children who will get to see mom in action. Just imagine how proud they will be!

Channeling Jerry Falwell’s ghost, I see. LOL

So, you’re seriously alleging that men w…[Read more]