What *is* wrong with women, anyway?
In a recent conversation on this community, someone made the claim that nearly 50% of rape claims were found to be false.
"Oh yeah", says I, "can you show me where you got that figure from - cos I have not seen it anywhere?"
So our resident expert on statistics comes back and tells me to stop whining, he tells me that, as a woman, I need to stop looking for help from men.
So I point out that I don't need his help, I just want to see if his claim has any solid facts to support it, or is it pure bullshit. When he proudly tells me that, because he owns a dick, he is virtually infallibe, I point out to him that I own a dick as well, and that as a fellow 'infallible' dick owner, I reckon that he is talking bullshit.
Well, actually, I said that Google informed me that 50% of statistics were made up on the spot by some arsehole who is just trying to sound clever.
At which point, this Alpha Male accused me of lying. Well, am I bovvered? Who is whining to whom here?
More to the point, why is "you are behaving like a woman" even *supposed* to be an insult? Like, as soon as I asked the first question, he assumes I am female. When he realises he is wrong, he is telling me how much I behave like a woman and need to make lots of changes.
Personally I am not so sure. It is not like I am leaping to any wrong conclusions, or making claims about things I cannot substantiate. I think I am fine as I am, thanks. I just want to know what is wrong with a person being 'like a woman' anyway? Anything wrong with a guy being 'in touch with his feminine side'?
I mean, lets talk about some women in the public eye. Judge Judy Sheindler, for instance. I have seen her on TV. She is a judge in the American legal system, someone who is factual and logical in her approach to problems. a woman who has brought up kids of her own and tries hard to make some of the folks she has to deal with grow up and take responsibility for themselves. She is also an author in her own right, and a wealthy woman. Why would any man feel insulted or put down if he was compared to her?
Any politician who can lead their party to victory in three consecutive elections, any sailor who can singlehandedly circle the globe, and chemist who discovers a new element and wins a nobel prize has every reason to be proud of their achievement. but if you know your history, you will know that women have accoplished all this and more.
No, I don't think that women are somehow special. They are not the answer to all the world's problems, or somehow imbued with any superior mystical qualities that I somehow lack because I am a bloke. But they are not some sort of second class human either.
I have to say that there are elements in some branches of 'feminist theory' that I disagree with. however, I hope to refute those claims and arguments with the use of facts, logic and and civil debate with my opponents, rather than appealing to the supposed superiority of my own gender.
Paradoxically, if adult women *are* in fact less than adult men, just 'children of a larger growth', as some medieval theologians surmised, then males do have a moral obligation to look after them and be responsible for them. On the other hand, if we *really* want women to stand on their own two feet, we have to accept that they are our equals in their own right.
Yeah, I will go head to head with anyone here in a debate. Just using facts and logic, not bringing my gender or their gender into it. Sadly, it seems there are some guys here, and out there in the world off line who can't or won't. And that is truly pathetic.
"Oh yeah", says I, "can you show me where you got that figure from - cos I have not seen it anywhere?"
So our resident expert on statistics comes back and tells me to stop whining, he tells me that, as a woman, I need to stop looking for help from men.
So I point out that I don't need his help, I just want to see if his claim has any solid facts to support it, or is it pure bullshit. When he proudly tells me that, because he owns a dick, he is virtually infallibe, I point out to him that I own a dick as well, and that as a fellow 'infallible' dick owner, I reckon that he is talking bullshit.
Well, actually, I said that Google informed me that 50% of statistics were made up on the spot by some arsehole who is just trying to sound clever.
At which point, this Alpha Male accused me of lying. Well, am I bovvered? Who is whining to whom here?
More to the point, why is "you are behaving like a woman" even *supposed* to be an insult? Like, as soon as I asked the first question, he assumes I am female. When he realises he is wrong, he is telling me how much I behave like a woman and need to make lots of changes.
Personally I am not so sure. It is not like I am leaping to any wrong conclusions, or making claims about things I cannot substantiate. I think I am fine as I am, thanks. I just want to know what is wrong with a person being 'like a woman' anyway? Anything wrong with a guy being 'in touch with his feminine side'?
I mean, lets talk about some women in the public eye. Judge Judy Sheindler, for instance. I have seen her on TV. She is a judge in the American legal system, someone who is factual and logical in her approach to problems. a woman who has brought up kids of her own and tries hard to make some of the folks she has to deal with grow up and take responsibility for themselves. She is also an author in her own right, and a wealthy woman. Why would any man feel insulted or put down if he was compared to her?
Any politician who can lead their party to victory in three consecutive elections, any sailor who can singlehandedly circle the globe, and chemist who discovers a new element and wins a nobel prize has every reason to be proud of their achievement. but if you know your history, you will know that women have accoplished all this and more.
No, I don't think that women are somehow special. They are not the answer to all the world's problems, or somehow imbued with any superior mystical qualities that I somehow lack because I am a bloke. But they are not some sort of second class human either.
I have to say that there are elements in some branches of 'feminist theory' that I disagree with. however, I hope to refute those claims and arguments with the use of facts, logic and and civil debate with my opponents, rather than appealing to the supposed superiority of my own gender.
Paradoxically, if adult women *are* in fact less than adult men, just 'children of a larger growth', as some medieval theologians surmised, then males do have a moral obligation to look after them and be responsible for them. On the other hand, if we *really* want women to stand on their own two feet, we have to accept that they are our equals in their own right.
Yeah, I will go head to head with anyone here in a debate. Just using facts and logic, not bringing my gender or their gender into it. Sadly, it seems there are some guys here, and out there in the world off line who can't or won't. And that is truly pathetic.