Posted by: Kurosaki_Kun
I know, right?
Jay acts like she's better than everyone else simply because she's a chick.
I hope she chokes to death.
Christ. doctor woot is agreeing with me. Is the apocalypse nigh? :P
Posted by: Studnessyep
Because he has to pay for it. No matter the circumstances of her getting pregnant (lied about being on the pill, forgot, etc). It's still his responsiblity. It's a theme for an age where women have choices but men have responisiblies.
It's not his right to force her to get an abortion, but its not her right to force him to pay for a decision of having a child she alone made. Yet the law favors women.There's no law saying men are forced to pay for abortions. What?
Posted by: Baph117
Yeah, I recognize that a lot of problems face by men today are a result of the same social structures that have oppressed women. However, I don't think it is wise to ignore the historical impact women themselves have had on enabling those social structures, and the ways women had benefited up until the 20th century. The advent of the modern firearm in the early 1900's really did a lot for the advancement of women's rights as we understand them, I think.As I believe New Radical has pointed out, given that women were systematically marginalised for hundreds upon hundreds of years (not allowed to learn how to read, restricted from certain jobs, etc.), it wasn't so much a case of women enabling their own oppression (though there was some of that, definitely - women have been slut-shaming for centuries!) as that they lacked the tools to fight it.
Posted by: WhitestKidUKnow
Posted by: jaythenerdkid
Re: most of your post, see my reply to Baph. But in relation to birth control rights: why exactly would it be a man's right to decide whether or not a woman would terminate a pregnancy that she has to carry, exactly?Not really trying to get into this debate, however, it does seem unfair that the father has no say over whether the child lives or dies for a child he wants, however, the mother can force him into paying child support for a child he doesn't want.Well, the woman has to carry the child, so she gets to decide whether or not to abort because it's a decision about her body, not really about the child. Fathers have to pay child support because when a child is born, they were part of creating that child and have a responsibility towards its maintenance. Mostly, it's unfair to expect the state to support mothers with children whose fathers have decided to abandon them. It's more in the state's interest than anything else.
Posted by: Xplode441
I like how OP avoids answering the question that attempts to make the big rant on the first page void.
Where is the problem that the Flood has and why are you trying to fix a problem that no one can seem to determine exists?This thread has pretty conclusively proven that the problem exists.
Given that you admitted that you're sexist pages back, you're as much a part of it as anyone else.
Posted by: NewRadical12
Calling someone a "slut" is not the same as calling them "promiscuous." It's similar to the difference between calling someone physically attracted to the same sex a "(word that begins with a f)" and calling them "(word that begins with a g)." While their denotations are identical, their connotations are not. "Slut" has historically been used to shame female -blam!-ity and disempower women, and it is certainly a sexist term.
Using it does not make you a sexist, it just means that you did something sexist. It's okay, it happens, even to me. Just acknowledge it, apologize, move on, and try your best not to do it again.On the other hand, refusing to stop using it or insisting that it's not sexist of you to use it does make you sexist.
(general "you", not saying you do this)
Posted by: Co M4N
Also girls don't think about how males treat each other online. You voice is a little high? -blam!- do you get so much -blam!- from everyone else. [...]
Women only think it happens to them and all that, and really if someone saying "get back in the kitchen" offends you that much, get the hell off the internet.Yes, because if your voice is high people think you sound like a woman, which is supposedly bad.
And I'm sorry it makes you mad that people are offended by sexism, but that's your problem, not mine.