Posted on 11/20/2006 8:56:18 AM PST by SirLinksalot
Hardly.
We'd be up to our ears in colored ribbons and protest marches if women suffered the same institutionalized prejudice men tolerate, for the most part, stoically.
But note this is the second time you've replied to me by changing the subject to something demeaning, rather that asking for explaination or elaboration of my original assertion.
Hiding under the bed.
When I was in the Army, the NCO's said the surest way to tell that the soldiers were all right was to hear them gripe endlessly about the Army. I think it was true then and it's true for Americans.
Difference between "...our legal system is designed..." in reference to family law and "...our legal system was designed..." in reference to general criminality noted.
Agreed on the women's suffrage issue. Tilted the political playing field in favor of a huge voting bloc that responds emotionally rather than rationally.
You sound unhappy.
This "institutionalized prejudice" against men might not be the real cause of your unhappiness.
There's a book called, "The Power of Positive Thinking" that will give you a different perspective.
I have to leave for a while to go beat up on my husband. LOL
Penis-envy is as old as Eve and just as productive.
Actually I am happy to see the adulation given Obama. It shows just how desperate the Party of Treason is for a candidate not named Hillary.
Ahh, if only that book had been around during the fight for women's suffrage...or even the late colonial period...just think how much happier we'd all be!
;o)
But I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps more and more people are becoming unhappy these days because they sense somehow that we've peaked and they believe that it's downhill from here with dark days ahead?
"An Oprah nation to be sure.
With liberal women in charge of "news", "education", culture, and now electing our reps, it will only get worse.
Where are our men? "
The feminized Western male has been nagged into submission by over-bearing media, lackluster (pubic) education, and narc'ed up on malignant narcissism. We have become the cocaine monkey, trembling in our own feces, hoping the lever will bring the blow instead of the shock.
We have a winner!
Where are the men? Are you serious? I don't know. I can't see them because all the 30 year-old, video game playing, slouchy-dressing, pitty-partying, skate-boardin', little chumps are in the way.
Most of the guys who were guys when I was growing up who didn't take on the yoke of responsible father decided to lay around mom and dad's house and sponge off them. Those same guys give me a silly-*ss smirk every time my child gets a runny nose and roll their eyes at the **looooserrrr!** This represents all the single guys I know. ALL OF THEM!
Men, huh? Take a time machine and go back a couple of decades!
I may get flamed now, but I really don't care.
There was a time when Americans understood that freedom meant nobody out there whose job it was to please them. being "tough to please" is a personal problem, not a virtue.
I was thinking yesterday. I do that sometimes and most of the time it gets me in trouble.
The U.S. hasn't been attacked in five years but we know the goal of our enemies is to do so as soon as possible.
If the next attack on the U.S. should happen to be a nuclear one what will this country be like and how will the citizenry react. How will our Government react?
Do to a major attack electricity, water and communications may be cut off over a large area. Food and other necessities may not be delivered.
After such an attack lawlessness would be a hundred times worse that what happened after Katrina. Criminals and desperate people would become like wild animals. The police would be overwhelmed and unable to protect us. I am afraid that we would be completely on our own. How many of us would be able to cope with protecting our families, secure enough food, water, etc to survive?
Far too many have become dependent on others to furnish them what they need. Those of us that have the ability to take care of ourselves will be much to busy to provide any help to those outside our own families. Far more will die, because they have never learned to be self dependent, than will occur in the initial attack.
Right on. Better still, to have had a taste of the depression, or depression like conditions.
I saw a film just before I emigrated to North America. It was called "Rebel Without A Cause". A rich kid (James Dean) money, a car, wonderful house etc. A pleading considerate Dad.
I still think that rebellion in his case, proved him stark staring raving mad- well stupid anyway. Fiction it was true, but true to some peoples lives.
Where I came from, his life pictured in California was a dream. A wonderful dream. I still cannot understand the reasoning. America. People die to get there.
Boy, I must have missed that benefit concert.
*snrk*
I couldn't agree more with that statement. I've had to deal with the public for most of my working life.
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