ShadowHM,Mar 11 2006, 12:50 AM Wrote:Quit whining, Doc!
The shoe is on the other foot, after centuries of it being the other way around, and you damn well resent it, right?
Get away from the 'poor men' thing, and start worrying about the children!
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Well, at least Susan B Anthony had the class to demand to be sent to jail like any other man would have for breaking the law.
It's not about poor men or poor women. It's about the removal of a double standard. I am entirely neutral on my positions about the sexes. If I see something that shouldn't be, I'll say something about it. I am all for women's rights and making sure they are treated as equals. However, in the process, I don't believe they should be elevated to a higher status than the menfolk. And if a woman demands to have a certain right than by damn, she had better have the class to make sure that the same is offered in return. Fair is fair after all. If they can't offer the same in return, then they shouldn't have it at all. And THAT GOES FOR MEN TOO. So don't nobody get no bright ideas. Everybody should have rights. Voting, handguns, property, the right to speak their mind. And so on. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. With these rights should come a little thing called personal responsibility.
And yes, children should be the real concern. I don't agree with abortion at all... And most of the current child custody dispute methods these days. It's all wrong. I had to go through some nasty wrangling and some damn dirty underhanded stuff just to make sure my Goddaughter was kept happy, healthy, and safe from harm. Namely, state foster care. It is absolutely vile the sort of hoops one is expected to jump through concerning a child's welfare. It's no fookin wonder that so many children slip through the cracks when mommy and daddy wind up fighting and a feuding.
Edit. To directly reply to the shoe being on the other foot... If we followed this line of reasoning that Shadow has presented, it should be perfectly ok for black folks to take white folks in to slavery. For just a little while. It would allow the shoe to sit on the other foot for a while. Sure, white folks would resent it... But it would be the right thing to do... Right? No harm, no foul. Somehow, they deserve to break the law and twist it around to their advantage because of what happened to them. But they should learn to just shut up and not say anything and let the black folks have their moment in the sun, because the shoe is now on the other foot. And that's ok.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Probably something I need to pay more attention to my self. Overcompensating the situation solves nothing, but breeds further resentment which will only hurt women even more in the long run. Women hurt their own cause by demanding special circumstances and priviledge, and to be protected in the long dark shadow of double standards.
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."