Posted on 05/21/2005 12:11:00 AM PDT by Eurotwit
NOT IN MY NAME!!!!! I love men. I loved my late husband. My daughters grew up in that environment. They love their husbands. We all have marriages in which we have been equal partners. We have all had good marriages. Their children, boys and girls, are growing up to respect members of both sexes.
I don't even know any die hard feminists. My middle daughter was a feminist for a brief time while a student at Randolph Macon Women's College and right after graduation, but she is a reformed woman now and a very staunch Republican.
Sweden is lost, at least for the present time and foreseeable future. It is a pity. At one time, they had a lot to contribute to the planet.
Without loking it up, can you name any of the mothers of the people on my list? By the way, most of the people on my list were compromised in some way. daVinci was probably gay. Beethoven was deaf for part of his composing career, Einstein had to flee anti-semitism etc. They all flourished against the odds and didn't let their societies keep them down.
I was just opining (that's still legal here, right?) that I hate threads (like these) that end up pitting the sexes against each other instead of promoting conservative philosophy. Every time I object to girls vs. boys threads some rockhead jumps to the wrong conclusion.
This is my opinion--there are conservative men and conservative women, (smart people); and there are liberal men and liberal women, (stupid people). Can we leave the lines drawn there and leave the sex out? Militant feminists are first and foremost liberals, and therefore stupid. That they are women is secondary, and certainly gives them nothing more in common with conservative women than gender. Hilter was a man, and Saddam is a man, but I don't think all men are bad. That would be stupid.
If I don't know their names, could one assume that they didn't exsist? Odds are, I couldn't find that infomation, even if I took the time to try to look it up. It's not the kind of thing where any kind of credit is given.
They all flourished against the odds and didn't let their societies keep them down.
That speaks to their true greatness. It argues against the "level the playing field", multicultural, diversity & affirmative action BS pushed by the left. Meanwhile, it does not argue in favor of recreation of the old standard of women being chatel or maybe it does... What do you think?
There is? How so?
I didn't charge you with sexual harrassment or make ad hominem attacks on you.
I never said you did, especially because you didn't.
Lighten up.
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I was making an observation about Schopenhauer. He was a social loser, disliked women and his philosophy shows it.
His life & how it has interjected itself into his philosophy is irrelevant. It's no different than shooting down anything a woman says on the basis of her looks, without even looking into the merit of what she has had to say. Men who have found social success could embrace some of the close minded bigotry that Schopenhauer expressed, so arguing against his philosophy by citing his own lack of social success does nothing to dispel anything he says.
I did find the essay to be one of the most hilarious things I've ever read. I mean, come on, a crotchety old man on a rant about how much he hates girls.
The part I read didn't say how he felt about girls. Instead, it put out his theory about why we (women) are all bubble brained airheads. I know plenty of women that *have* more hair than wit, but I never felt any kind of need to come up with any theory about what makes them that way. I don't spend any time trying to figure out why some guys act like knuckle draggers either, but maybe that's just me.
Maybe it might seem off base to some, but if a woman made a similiar rant about men(actually, many have) I'd probably find it equally amusing.
It's been quite a few years since I searched out a copy of the SCUM Manifesto & read it. If you're ever looking for some er, light reading...
Can we leave the lines drawn there and leave the sex out?
Here's your very last post before you started posting in this thread: tsk, men.
Why do you need Schopenhauer when you have Pissant? :-P
Cheers.
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