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-puts on serious face- Alright, this is a bit long article from the Men's Daily News site and it speaks of very pressing issues many people are quick to ignore. Quote:
While this article doesn't really say anything new for those who have learned this much, it puts together the awe-struck surprise me and others have found when understanding what is happening throughout the world. This kind of hatred from the worse people calling themselves leaders for these movements has only worsened with each passing days as they continue to push their ideology while attacking anything that opposes it. I post this article to see your reactions to it. I would like to discuss how such things make you feel, agree or disagree, and what you think should be done?
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| Gingersnap | Haha... now let me make myself clear: I support equal rights for everyone, and I don't think getting revenge on those who have been in power (straight white males) for thousands of years is the answer. In fact, most of the straight white males I know are very kind and have never treated me with disrespect. However, I do see the humor in this, even if it's a little dark. Everyone else gets oppressed for generations, from being someone's property to someone's slave, and now... "They make guys look like doofuses on TV! I hate it!" Anyway. The humor only goes so far and then it becomes personal. Yeah, there are some shitty ****ing people out there and it would be easy for me to convince myself that men are evil and I need to take revenge on them. But when I imagine my younger brother or my father, or any of the other men in my life that I love being called stupid rapist pigs incapable of compassion, understanding, and love... shit sucks. I don't want that. It's frustrating. What's also frustrating, though, is super defensive white dudes pointing the finger at gay people and accusing them of an agenda. Don't get me wrong, the hate against heterosexuals going on is pretty much bullshit and totally hypocritical. Why would you add more hate and violence to the equation? Certainly not to gain sympathy, I hope. It makes people like my mother and her partner look bad, when they have no agenda, they just want to love each other and be safe in the knowledge that if one of them ends up in the hospital, the other can be there. I just don't see why we all have to be in each other's business. You can't force a church to preform a marriage ceremony, fine. I agree with that, it would infringe on their right to practice their own religion. But why stand in the way of two people putting more love into the world? There are gay people AND straight people who are big ol' sluts, yeah, but we're not talking about those people. We're talking about the ones who want to try and love someone for the rest of their lives. But no one pays attention to those people because the homosexuals more concerned with hate and revenge than love are making it really difficult to sympathize with a gay cause. Same with Christians more concerned with revenge than love. Ugh. People always have to be fighting about something, it's the stupidest damn thing.
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Inventory | The quotes in your article are a bit dated - Firestone's been quiet lately. Anyway, all those retard 'If you're not a lesbian, you're not a feminist' voices were basically ignored in the 70's and 80's by people like my mother (working as a programmer, paid a lot less than her peers and bullied for not doing favours/work for men of a lower rank (she worked for the Ministry of Defence) and constantly passed over for promotion), who were/are the majority of feminists - women out for equality and nothing more. My grandmother and my mother were both feminists so that I don't have to be. I could never imagine being paid less for my work than a man, or having anything about my career decided for me on the basis of my gender. These days, feminists don't really need to exist as such - women still need to be aware of issues concerning womens' rights, but that's it. There are female presidents, prime ministers, lawyers, engineers and computer programmers all over the world now, with equal pay and rights. Equality is ours, apart from a few outstanding issues (like women in high-powered jobs going on maternity leave and returing to their jobs to find they've been demoted). So, all in all, nobody rational ever really listened to Tahlulah Firestone and her cronies, because they obcured what feminism was about. They harped on about marriage like it was as bad as it was in 40's and before that: where the woman had no job/property/etc, and the rape within marriage laws weren't properly established. But by the time the Radical Feminist crew started harping on, marriage was a choice for women and would not hamper their freedoms or lives. Like it or lump it, marriages sometimes get violent or unhappy (can be caused by either side. Reported cases of domestic violence against men rose by something like 400% last year - it's good that men aren't scared to speak out about living with bunnyboilers anymore, should they end up there), and it would be unfair for people to have to stay - so what your article says about the 'divorce revolution' or whatever it was is faulted. Divorce is a necessary freedom. I admit that fathers need to be given better access to kids, and am a wholehearted supporter of Fathers For Justice in line with that. So, then, to the article's fundamental flaw: same sex marriage will not be something created by radical feminists and used by them as a means of socioeconomic control because A) They are a distinct minority, as are their beliefs on same sex marriage (as proven by the democratic vote of California); and B) There simply are not enough gay people in the world for them to 'take over' the institution of marriage. Gay people are, and probably always will be, a minority. I've always hated Firestone et al. They give women a bad name. But believe me, they are a minority. Like the Neo-Marxist-Feminists and the millions of other convoluted branches of feminism who managed to completely remove themselves from achieving the task at hand at the same time as making women look like harpies. It's kind of funny how freaked out the writer is by feminists, though. He writes like they're coming over the hill brandishing wedding rings. And he's a bit fond of jargon for my tastes; one can only handle the word 'diaspora' so many times in an article. | ||||||||||||
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Inventory | Citing extremists and insinuating that they are the majority is just a way to stir up trouble. Obviously there are many, many people who will be angry with the passing of this proposition, but if every gay person out there was on the streets bashing up cars and smashing heads I'm sure there'd be just a bit more of an outcry. Many extremist Christian groups exist. Whenever one of these groups commits some horrible act the more moderate Christian majority will attempt to distance themselves from that group (and with good reason). They had nothing to do with it and they certainly don't want to be labeled wrongly. If Christians, whose beliefs are a reflection of their religious writings, can distance themselves from one another then I think it's only fair that people who have only sexual orientation in common can do the same. It should be common sense, right?
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Inventory | The good old "blame the oppressed" approach. I saw enough of it during the election. Blame the black guy for threatening our whiteness. This is not an issue. Homosexual couples should have every right straight couples have. There is no debate, there are no multiple ways to look at it. Citing any poor leadership in a movement does not help answer the question. It comes down to the cause, not the players in the game.
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