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Men and women, men vs. women, a theme time immortal and often shoved off.

People say we are equal. People say we are the same. They say this of course to avoid the problem at hand, which is reasonable from both perspectives. To a patriarch who wants nothing more than to rule a subservient class of women, questioning can only cause problems. And for a woman just trying to make it underneath the rules of man, making waves is likely a bad idea.

Unfortunately though there are many things that need to be taken into account.

The fact that jobs require math and science for better pay and status, and that these subjects are pushed through schools; that women still make less than men; that people actively make fun of any woman that takes office, or that the jobs women take key roles in are all service jobs such as clerks, attendants, secretaries, teachers, nurses, ect ect ect, only shows that they are being funneled into this so that men can have better jobs and status.

Then, after social equality, there is sexual equality. This of course is ridiculous. Women have been sheltered and enslaved in this department so long that we no longer have any ability to truly consent. We have no ideas that are intrinsically ours on the matter. All our ideas on sex have mutated from the garbage about romanticism that the old patriarchs have given us. Since we cannot comprehend and form our own ideals about sex, we cannot be equal, nor can we give informed consent; thus all sex is by default rape.
Welcome back Hash.
Well then shouldn't your thread be titled something like "Sexual Inequality"?

It exists, but nothing can be done as long as the corporations that are causing the inequality are in power.
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hashed browns sounds good right now....
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Where's the argument?
Men and Women ARE equal.

Equally stupid. stare
Gerazzi
Well then shouldn't your thread be titled something like "Sexual Inequality"?

It exists, but nothing can be done as long as the corporations that are causing the inequality are in power.

Lolz. I guess thats why taking a long break is good. People wont recognize you. But then theres those of us thats be around forever.
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Hashed browns
...Women have been sheltered and enslaved in this department so long that we no longer have any ability to truly consent. We have no ideas that are intrinsically ours on the matter. All our ideas on sex have mutated from the garbage about romanticism that the old patriarchs have given us.


Question: If the above is true, then the above is an idea given to you by the patriarchs, the men in charge. Now, earlier, you said the following:

Hashed browns
...To a patriarch who wants nothing more than to rule a subservient class of women...


It seems to me that these don't work together. The first idea is one that tries to give women more control over their situation, and the second implies that the patriarchs who gave you the first idea simply don't want women to think for themselves.

So, as far as I can tell, either the first idea didn't come from the patriarchs, but rather, some other contending force, or that your idea of what a patriarch wants is rather off.

By the way, welcome back, Hashed browns.
The Great Heat Miser
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Hashed browns
...Women have been sheltered and enslaved in this department so long that we no longer have any ability to truly consent. We have no ideas that are intrinsically ours on the matter. All our ideas on sex have mutated from the garbage about romanticism that the old patriarchs have given us.


Question: If the above is true, then the above is an idea given to you by the patriarchs, the men in charge. Now, earlier, you said the following:

Hashed browns
...To a patriarch who wants nothing more than to rule a subservient class of women...


It seems to me that these don't work together. The first idea is one that tries to give women more control over their situation, and the second implies that the patriarchs who gave you the first idea simply don't want women to think for themselves.

So, as far as I can tell, either the first idea didn't come from the patriarchs, but rather, some other contending force, or that your idea of what a patriarch wants is rather off.

By the way, welcome back, Hashed browns.


Man...this chick just wants her cake and eat it too.
For the record, I would have made fun of Hillary Clinton whether she was male of female. The way she laughs and claps at everything is something I find humorous.
Kerist
This study I saw on the news recently stated that women were less happy now that they've achieved more equal rights. I thought it was interesting, to turn things around and say that women were happier before. Anyway, I thought women worked in more high profile jobs now and had more comparable incomes, but I could be wrong.

As to consent, I don't think the lines of gender are any more incapacitated by the brainwashing of the media or antiquated ideals... I mean I HATE seeing some couples in their pajamas and the way they interact with each other in so many movies... Just recently walked out of one.

There's just something really unsettling to me, not as a man or as a woman, but as a person, about thinking about how we're supposed to live our lives and how I am living my life. Facebook statuses, Twitter tweets, and the longer-reigning life imitates art standards in our media make me sickeningly self conscious..about something as simple as being me.


so get away from your computer.

stay away for a month or 2.

see what changes come of it.
If all men are rapists then all women are prostitutes.
This thread sort of screws you op MORE than help....

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