>Real men know how to treat real women. With a self-assured respect.
There’s an assumption there, that the woman is a lady; what if she is acting in a disreputable, disrespectful, or dangerous manner?
If someone is a fool, do you coddle them? Say if someone got pulled over for DUI? Is it so sad that it happened? (Sure it could be, but it’s definitely stupid.) Or do you say, “You know, you shouldn’t do that.”? {How hard is it to designate a driver?}
My point is, that treating semi-honorable men like dogs is the one thing that women can do to make them into dogs. (The other thing is that if men are dogs, why don’t women try to be nice and friendly and encourage our protective sides instead of kicking us around?)
Respect is a two way street; society gives precious little respect to men; is it any wonder that males aren’t “wanting” to me men?
It’s the same as watching the corruption in Congress and politics, and ACORN (do you think they’ll be convicted?), like the vote “recounting”... people who think that justice should be done are realizing just how sickening it all is; I’ve seen more cynicism toward that part of government [justice being valued] than ANY other.
“There’s an assumption there, that the woman is a lady; what if she is acting in a disreputable, disrespectful, or dangerous manner?”
That is what I meant be a ‘real’ woman.
I was not behaving in any of those manners and raptor decided to disrespect me. And frankly, I’m a bit disappointed that some of our great conservative gentlemen here did not correct his behavior.
Women just love men with the chutzpa to stand up for them. We love that protective nature of you all. Especially when one of your own is being rude and immature. That’s why I mentioned my father. Army, WW2 vet, and defender of ladies. *sigh*
You are absolutely correct. But then you blow it:
society gives precious little respect to men; is it any wonder that males aren’t “wanting” to me men?
Only those who fall hook line and sinker of the BS that is promulgated by those who wish to ignore the reality of real men fall into that category.
Unfortunately those types do not frequent FR. Unfortunately FR does attract its share of misogynists who are loudly applauded by some. Thankfully, the majority of the FR men are real men who actually appreciate real women.