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Topic: Clinton's "reservation"
Check out this article from USA TODAY:
Trump hits Clinton for ‘off the reservation’ remark
This criminal c~~~ might as well have said “off the plantation” !!
Have a good week my brothers!
Hi guys,
Been a while since I logged in, been pretty busy.
I recently went to a Philosophy in Pubs meeting, the title of which was “Is there a Crisis in Masculinity?”
I was naturally interested, and decided to attend, thinking that it would be almost exclusively men. How wrong I was! About 40 people, evenly split amongst men and women. The compere introduced the topic, and gave his anecdote about having asked all his associates this title question, to gauge their response. He said that almost all of them said yes, there was a crisis, but no one was talking about it. So he gave a few intro leads as to why this might be, some of which stuck in my throat (feminism not reaching men, etc.), and then asked us to group around tables to discuss for 45 mins. He did a quick straw-poll of the participants to see how many agreed (with no discussion or definition) that there was a crisis in masculinity. This blew me away –
less than 50% of the men thought there was.
more than 90% of the women thought there was.I found myself on a table where I was the only man, with 2 lesbians, and 3 hetero women. It was fun to hear their opinions about patriarchy and feminism, and then gently remind them that the studies and evidence actually showed that women were just as bad as men, and then hear them agree with me! HAHA!
Specifically – in the introduction, another anecdote from the compere was his observations of men’s competitive behaviour, in his domain in the swimming lanes. He observed lots of Alpha tricks going on, and when a woman entered the lane, she quickly left again, as she couldn’t stand the games. The women around my table latched onto this as evidence that men couldn’t just be nice to each other. I reminded them that women compete every Saturday night, to which they all nodded sagely, and told me (as if in secret) that every single one of them competes to get the most compliments, but whoever wins is hated by everyone else. One of the women openly stated that “getting dressed up and going out” was all about HER, and no one else. The others nodded. Without a hint of shame, they told me that dressing up was an entirely self-centred event, designed to extract compliments out of friends and strangers. The women went on to say that they had had personal experiences of being in female-only workplaces, and how bitchy that was, but when a man entered, they all completely changed and fawned over him, competing for attention.
Point proven.
Next we discussed Domestic Violence, which of course they had particular views on. Unfortunately for them, being a man, and a DV survivor, I trumped all their inbuilt victim-status programming (due to the event being about MEN), and they had to listen to what I said (no victim-shaming, remember!). When I pointed out that research had showed that if women were given excess estrogen, the same proportion of them got violent, as men given excess testosterone, and how that explained why DV rates were identical, and also explained why a proportion of women found the estrogen-only contraceptive pill problematic, they all nodded sagely again!
Another point proven.
The two lesbians had decided that the reason that there was a crisis in masculinity was that women had been “liberated” by feminism, and could show “masculine” traits, but men had not been liberated, and did not feel free to show “feminine” traits. I carefully countered their argument, by showing that although women say that they want men to show their feelings, what men have found is that women are instantly turned off when they do! So men know that they don’t get laid if they show their feelings, and thus are never going to be “touched by feminism”. There was general nodding of agreement.
45 minutes is not enough time to discuss all issues we face, and even though there were at least 6 different groups within the room, collectively we still missed stuff. Other tables covered suicides, homelessness, education, lack of support centres, and many other things.
We concluded that there most definitely is a Crisis in Masculinity, but no one knows how to deal with it. The general population seem to know it’s there (women especially), but no one is talking about it, and no one knows what to do.
Currently it is dangerous to be a man.
Stay safe, my brothers!
Quietly.





