DailyDirt: The End of Men?
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
The battle of the sexes has been a long-term skirmish for centuries, if not millennia. There's really no winning, but there have been some recent suggestions that women are gaining ground. It's time to fight back, men! Or not. It might be better to just nod and say, "Yes, dear..."- Japanese scientists have grown mice sperm cells in a test tube. Someday, this could either cure male infertility... or completely obviate the need for men, depending on how you look at it. [url]
- Dilbert-creator Scott Adams sparked a bit of debate over the men's rights movement. Adams should know better than to compare women to the mentally handicapped -- even if he wrote it in a tongue-in-cheek way. [url]
- The sense of touch can affect how people perceive gender. We'll leave it to the comments to come up with a joke about how squeezing a soft ball tends to get people to classify a face as female... [url]
- Men in the US are becoming less educated than their female peers, but they don't have to commit to long-term relationships as much. The laws of supply and demand affect relationships, too. [url]
- To discover more interesting gender-related issues, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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Honestly,he presented a number of points, backed them up in a logical manner, and then told mankind to shut the hell up because certain things are just easier.
Meanwhile, at least that first rebuttal tries to argue things like "Women actually subsidize the drunk driving of men" despite the fact that men pay much higher premiums on.
Oh, and Nicole Hollander, try making any point. Any point at all. Or maybe a comic that isn't terrible.
I like to consider myself to be an open minded man, but if you want me to disagree with what Scott Adams said and, further, be angry about it, then give me a damn good reason why it's wrong and BACK IT UP WITH EVIDENCE!
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"yes dear"
-- Ironically, this was essentially the same thing that Adams was trying to say (albeit, very poorly) that touched off the firestorm in the first place ...
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Bah
Ironically, the firestorm of indignation that resulted from his post proved his point; from the moment he started typing, there was a hand behind a keyboard getting ready to make a federal case out of every word. He literally couldn't win.
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Re: Bah
The "Al Sharpton" mentality ignores the obvious intent of the statement and twists the meaning to suit the more easily defensible and righteously condemnable meaning of, "you're a bigot".
Hence, that "firestorm of indignation" says much more about the indignant, than the perceived offender.
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Ok then...
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"Now I would like to speak directly to my male readers who feel unjustly treated by the widespread suppression of men�s rights:
Get over it, you bunch of pussies."
I almost spewed my coffee on computer screen.
We should do a study find all of the people outraged by his blog post, stick them in a very large cruise ship and sink it in the Pacific.
Get over it, you bunch of pussies.
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Battle of the sexes
With three super-achieving daughters (and a really fantastic wife), I wonder why this "battle" is still being fought?
Quoting Einstein again (praised be his name - wait, I am Christian - I think); "the only things that are infinite are the universe and human stupidity" (but he wasn't sure about the universe).
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Battle of the sexes again
Why not add "what's up, darkie?", or "the only good Indian is a dead Indian", or "no Irish need apply", or "frogs are forever, but luckily only in France", or - I give up.
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Re: Battle of the sexes again
I mean WTF is this shit? There is a battle of the sexes going on since forever? Women and men fighting on the streets and the like? Or is the OP an idiotic MRA? I think the latter is far more likely.
Yeah there's no winning this war for the men, because they only subjugated women completely until less than a 100 years ago. But now that women are finally becoming more equal, men are losing "the war". What war? The war for the right to dominate women one presumes.
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All the years of telling women to be strong and independent has left them intolerant of critique. Maybe we should just spend money or write some laws that make us all equal, then everyone would finally be happy, oh wait...
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