extermination or enslavement ? Not really an agenda that history has shown women to have.
I give you the Amazons...
I'm posting about YOU, Dr.Paul. And the fact that I am sick and tired of your bullying attitude towards me, and your off handed comments that I feel are incredibly hurtful.
Now wait just a minute here Miss Pot-Calling-The-Kettle-Black. I posted not one word directed at you until YOU posted a very unkind comment personally toward me.
To use your words, I am really fed up with the manner in which you treat me. You want to bully me and everybody else into a fantasy world in which it is illegal to even suggest that any woman at any time could ever have any fault or shortcoming. This is not realistic nor practical.
There exist both men and women who possess character flaws in this world. That, by no means implies that all men or all women share those flaws. To use your words again, Anyone well informed in the cultures of the world and history knows what I'm talking about.
I single-handedly raised a wonderfully caring and thoughtful son, and have relationships with men that I deeply treasure to this VERY day.
Ok. If this is some kind of qualification test, I, DrPaul, have raised a wonderfully caring, thoughtful and multi-talented daughter, not single-handedly, but along with and by remaining true to my wife for 36 years and I also enjoy many close relationships with other women. In fact, when my daughter was born, I quit a promising carreer to be a stay-at-home Dad and was the only guy participating in a New-Mom's Group which was sponsored by our hospital. Although I have resumed my carreer, I still remain close with the other moms 16 years later. Oh, and even my dog, Daisy, is a female.
So perhaps we are more alike than you would like to think. The big difference between us is that, although I am a guy, I do not dogmatically defend every other guy in the world, nor do I take it as a personal afront if someone is so bold as to suggest that there are some flawed men in the world. But when someone choses to stereotype ALL men, then I may say something in their defense. But I would not attempt to silence the offender. I would engage him/her in a logical debate.
Absolutely NONE of my comments regarding women were ever directed at all women.
I think if women lost their fertility or if technology could take over their role.....
This last comment smacks dangerously close to your fembot discussion.
No. This last comment is an obvious extrapolation by anyone familiar with the historical trends of technology and modern culture. It appeared in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" 80 years ago. As a scientist, I think it is much more likely than spontaneous asexual reproduction in humans. I also think that, if it comes to pass, it will have a chilling and dangerous affect on society in general and on women in particular. It would first be presented as a technology to free women from the bonds of childbirth. But the ultimate and unintended consequences of such a technology would be to eventually topple women from the pedestal that men have kept them on for millennia. This would be a very bad thing for women.
But you see, you don't care to discuss these things amicably. You want to silence any discussion that doesn't paint a rosy picture (of women.) Believe me, if you don't engage in the discussion, these things will bite you in the back. If you don't agree with somebody, take issue. But indicate *why* you don't agree. Don't just say "I don't like that. Stop talking."
I don't know why we can't be friends or discuss anything that has to do with women. For some reason, you think I have animosity toward women.
This reminds me of a quote, I don't know who it's by, but it goes,
"You like someone because. You love someone although."
In this context, although I recognize that women have flaws, I love them. You seem to think that if women aren't flawless, they are unlovable. Between those two perspectives, which shows more love?
DrPaul out, for now.
*Insert crossed line here* 