Is this the era on hating on men? hear all the time people hating on men. I feel bad for men in...

Is this the era on hating on men?

hear all the time people hating on men. I feel bad for men in this day and age, they can't say or do much of anything without being judged and labeled for it..

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IvanKaramazov

Really, the man-hating thing has been around for a while, even in socially-sanctioned forms. What's new is the lack of appreciation for men. Go back to the Victorian Era or Medieval times and you see that while it was common enough for either sex to disparage men and male mores in favor of more "virtuous" womanhood/femininity, men were still respected for keeping people safe, for ensuring that society continued running, and so on and so forth. Today, men still perform most of the critical tasks for these functions (most cops are men; most soldiers are men; most of the people who keep the sanitation department running, program traffic lights, engineer trains, and so on are men, etc.) but they get no recognition for it. That's what's really new. That's the truly original legacy of feminism, which otherwise just looks like old bullshit in new clothes.

sheepinarowboat · 51-55, F

Well ya, you all are more physically suited for that. You can pat yourselves on the back for that, just so long as you understand....you would look like a bunch of babies if you didn't. 40% more muscle mass, designed for heavy lift far more than females. Men work hard, but most have the backs for it and derive great satisfaction from that kind of thing. I myself....do not and I'm more than happy to let my strong husband and strong son lift and carry things I can't.

IvanKaramazov

Every so often, I actually do check the comments on my posts. Things like this are why I almost never, ever respond to them. They're always one of the following: ignorant/misinformed, incoherent, or simply (as in this case) off-point. What exactly does the fact that men have greater muscle mass and bone density have to do with the running of modern society, which men still overwhelmingly do? Are you saying muscle mass has something to do with programming traffic lights? Being a train engineer? Directing flight schedules? Operating drones?

Granted, men are always going to be the grunts and footsoldiers. You don't want a bunch of women, howsoever dyke-y, unloading all the produce each morning at Wal-Mart. That's just going to cause the total number of muscle sprains and back injuries to go up.

Or are you making the stupider claim that no one ought to be rewarded for their contributions to society because those contributions were enabled by factors over which the individual had no control, e.g. being born male? Because if you want to go that route, then shut the fuck up about your periods and labor pains, because you're just baby-factories, born and bred.

I mean, Jesus fucking Christ, I make the simple point society no longer values male contributions - which it doesn't, and which is, again, in large thanks to the so-called "women's movement" (really, a "movement" of bored, rich, useless white women who can't get over their own sense of inadequacy and make it everyone else's problem) - and you somehow go to muscle mass? What the shit? What kind of leap in reasoning is this? Do you even know what the fuck a logical relation or inference is?