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Originally Posted by kramus
I object to being marginalized because I am a male. I object to being categorized because I said hello, or even just smiled in a friendly way. I object to being automatically put in the rapist column because men have been rapists. That is nastier and far less discriminating than finding hygiene challenged people a bother to be next to on a hot day.
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Really?? Oh, poor you. I think you need to spend some time doing some research on how women are marginalized around the world. In another thread on this forum, someone posted an article about the gang rape of an 11 year old girl by a group of adult men in Texas. 1 in 6 American women are raped; in 2003, 9 out of 10 rape victims were women; 17.7
million American women have been the victims of attempted or completed rape. And the numbers are even greater in other countries that are more male-centric than ours. Consider the war crimes done to women in Africa. It's estimated that a woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped than learning how to read. In a survey conducted among 1,500 schoolchildren in the Soweto township, a quarter of all the boys interviewed said that "jackrolling," a term for gang rape, was fun. And that's just South Africa. Consider Latin America, Cambodia, India, the middle east, other areas where women are often viewed as "property," as "less than" men, and deserving of being treated like shit. You still want to claim you're being marginalized because you're male?
Your behavior in this thread reminds me too much of
this guy, with the insistence that I'm "some freaky social misfit snarling and lashing at people," that I "go around pissing on every little wave that has the ill fortune to brush against your sacrosanct shores," and your poor attempt at sarcasm, "Every single guy who makes the mistake of saying 'nice day' on a nice day is actually planning on ramming you deep and hard while you shriek in horror. Every fellow who hasn't been graced by your personal dispensation allowing him the rare privilege of smiling at you is a foul beast who should be caged."
Rather than taking my words at face value and accepting that it's ok for women to tell you to step off and leave us alone if we don't want to talk to you, you're engaging in personal attacks and 'humor' in poor taste to insist
you're really the marginalized one, being male and all, and that women should just stop their damn complaining so much. To quote again from Ms. Starling, whose words you seem more willing to accept than mine, "a man who ignores a woman’s NO in a non-sexual setting is more likely to ignore NO in a sexual setting, as well." You're behaving an awful lot like that guy.
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Originally Posted by MSD
I don't disagree with anything in that article, but I'm a bit confused since you previously said this
in response to this post of mine
Which sounds to me a lot closer to what Ms Starling is saying than your post.
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That's why I used the personal pronoun "me," because I was speaking for myself, not anyone else,
n'est pas?
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Originally Posted by MSD
And on a side note, I ask on behalf of everyone using the TFP Green color scheme that you switch your blue text to a quote box.
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Sorry. Fixed. I don't use the green scheme myself. Green background with small white type is hard on my eyes.