. . . even though no one is actually offended by the sight of guys' chests painted with school colors, the boys have to put their shirts on -- since the girls can't go around bare chested. See it here: "After a few girls grumbled about boys getting away with exposing their chests, the group arrived at this decision: Belly-baring T-shirts would be as far as anyone—girl or boy—would be allowed to go."
Why this inane bow to political correctness? Because, don't you know, equality means treating everybody exactly the same. Even though everybody is not exactly the same. We must pretend they are exactly the same to silence the bow wows of the self-anointed victims.
Get it? Neither do I.
What's next? Ban urinals because it's unfair to women that men can pee standing up? Oops -- that's already been proposed: "Young Swedish women now demand that their men use the lavatory in a strictly sedentary posture . . . because a man standing up to urinate is deemed to be triumphing in his masculinity and, by extension, degrading women."
And sometimes all one needs to do in order to expose the absurdity of an argument is repeat it.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
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oh lordy! how foolish, and what a waste of time.
we all would be better served if people like these channeled their energy into a good cause. there are tons of agencies that need volunteers and problems that could use the time and effort it took for these groups to make themselves look stupid!
i have always considered myself a feminist, but i have also always believed in making sense and that we should want to improve everyone's lot in life. this doesn't improve anyone nor ddoes it advance the cause of women.
For the record, I'm an unmarried guy who may have to tie the knot someday. If we're worried about inequality I propose a deal: I'll sit down when I pee AND not paint my chest if I can save the 3 months salary I'm supposed to spend on an engagement ring.
that 3 month salary thing is a con to make money for the jewelry industry that already enjoys something like a 300 percent mark up.
now, i LOVE jewelry, but i will say this and i mean it with all my heart.
if the woman you want to marry and make a life with cares more about what the ring costs (i would care that it was a style i liked, i admit)than the fact that you love each other enough to get married, then run, RUN in the opposite direction.
it's not a male female thing. it's a priority/common sense thing if you can not afford 3 months salary.
now, then again, if you can(like bill gates)afford it and don't, then she should RUN!
just my 2 cents worth.
Right on, Sherry. The protests strike me as the worst kind of whiny politics of resentment that engender disrepute of the entire feminist movement even though it doesn't represent the vast majority of feminists.
It's the same sort of nonsense that prompted some women to complain that all the medical testing in the mid-20th century was being done on males so women's medicine suffered. Yeah - it was done on males, alright: prisoners and conscripted soldiers who had no say in the matter, thank you very much. The result? Incredible over-funding of breast cancer research at the expense of heart disease, prostate cancer and many other diseases. Pandering to women's lobbies to buy votes is what it was.
Or the whiners who insist girls be permitted to play on boys' sports teams and take spots from some boys who want to play -- but that boys aren't allowed to play on the girls' teams. The result? Disproportionate numbers of girls get to play while boys are forced to sit out.
Burgher Jon is right. My ring cost a fraction of my wife's.
Um, talk about equality, how about giving young men the same social leeway to stay home and raise the kids while the wife works? You know, give men a chance to be the primary parent -- not just a wallet. Yeah, some couples do that, but it's still not widely accepted. Men are the ones who are expected to work, thus accounting for much of the gender wage gap.
Or do something about the fact that 93% of work fatalities are of males. Men are the ones who are expected to take dangerous or crappy jobs. Thus explaining the rest of the gender wage gap.
Or the sentencing disparity that gives women much shorter sentences for almost every crime across the board.
Or get rid of the law that says a teen male statutorily raped is liable for child support if his rapist decides to have the child.
The list goes on and on.
Fortunately, my future missus let me off with a tasteful 3/4 carat ring that was only about two weeks' net salary. But then I also traded in the nose ring from my previous marriage.
"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."
-Samuel Johnson
my daughter went back to work first after they adopted my beautiful little granddaughter.
my son-in-law could take more time off from his job than she could and she makes more money than he did so it worked out better that way. he is terrific with their daughter(she's now 4)
i raised my daughter to be independent and use good common sense(most times) ; )
i think every person should do whatever they do the best regardless of what little tacky boxes society tries to put them in.
and many good wishes kevin to you and yours.
hey 3/4s of a carat is a great size.
oh 1 thing judge.
women get much longer and harsher sentencing when it comes to killing their husbands.
other than that tho, yeah i think you are right about crime.
I would like to stand up and urinate on these Swedish women.
Oh, gee, Vern. That's hate speech. It's only acceptable if you sit down and urinate on them.
I tried that but no one downloaded any of my videos because they weren't empowering enough.
I would bet that Vern is one of these patriarchal dinosaurs who is so drunk on male privilege that he does whaever strikes his fancy to subjugate and oppress women. Like standing and urinating, or using his enhanced male strength to help a woman open a bottle, or using his enhanced male height to pull something from an upper shelf for a woman. You know, the kind of horrid male who luxuriates in his undeserved male privilege.
What is hilarious about this is I just received a picture of myself from a friend. He took it a few weeks ago at a UCF (U. of Central Florida) tailgate and I just had to piss like a rockstar, but didn't feel like finding a urinal and really, there is nowhere to hide and piss it out up there. So I put an empty gallon jug under my shorts and used that. It was awesome, and both men and women bowed in the presence of greatness.
Is something wrong in being proud of being male...while pride if being female is ok?
Girl Power shirts are everywhere afterall..Boy Power = Sexist
Sounds like socialization to ME!
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