Men putting their arm around their girlfriend’s shoulders looks like ‘ownership’

Tunney said:
Yes...

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Haha :D:D
 
FoxEye said:
Across all walks of life we are being conditioned, probably more today than at any other time.

We're supposed to see strong women as brave, determined, creative, smart. We're supposed to look at men in positions of power and wonder why there isn't a woman doing his job (or if a woman couldn't do it better).

We're supposed to look at households where the man works and the women looks after the kids as "old-fashioned" and "backwards".

We're supposed to look at immigrants as brave, hard-working, educated, motivated, go-getters. We're supposed to look at our own unemployed as lazy, entitled, a drain on society.

You could go on and on. There are a set of "groupthink" stereotypes that we're supposed to believe in, and there's something wrong with you if you disagree.
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I just shed a tiny little tear. It's a tough life, what with all the conditioning and that.
 
I put my arm around my wife's shoulder not to show ownership but because she is shorter than me. Mostly though we hold hands if we are out, because we like to.
 
Dicehunter said:
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It's like we're going back in time.
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Not really.

Fashionable sexism in the past was two-way to some extent. Fashionable modern sexism is strictly anti-male only (though of course it also adversely affects women who don't conform to it, since any group identity ideology is harsh on non-conformists). It's an important and deliberate difference.
 
Aod said:
Remember the way it works in modern society;

If you compliment a woman, and she's attracted to you, she'll appreciate the compliment and be happy.

If you compliment a woman and she isn't attracted to you, you're a creep and what you said was inappropriate and possibly sexual harassment.



If nobody's saying it, why is society changing so dramatically?
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I will say it is one of the reasons I left the company - I didn't like peoples attitudes or the people who were 'working' their way up. Especially when same woman shouted out "you're a 'nasty ladybits word'!" to a manager....

The manager above them was quite surprised when I said "I'm leaving because I can't work around hypocrite's with attitude problems..."

I don't take offence when I get told by women "we really miss having you around, you are the life and soul of the office, I really miss you". I've been told that multiple times by a lot of people but they know I don't take offence at any of it. I take it as a compliment and it warms me knowing I am well thought of. :)
 
No1newts said:
Is there a a male alternative to feminism movement we can all sign up to?
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Yes. It's exactly the same as feminism, of course, since it's exactly the same ideology. One version advocates for one sex only and the other version advocates for one sex only. The only difference is the amount of power the two versions of the same ideology have. That makes a huge difference in how much harm each does to society in general and sexual equality in particular, but it doesn't change the fact that they're equally bad because they're the same thing.

Life is really pathetic these days.
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It'll probably get worse. Bigotry has always been commonplace, but it's only recently that bigots have been successful in corrupting the very idea of equality.

What doesn't exist is a movement for sexual equality, an idea so odd it doesn't even have a name.
 
Angilion said:
It'll probably get worse. Bigotry has always been commonplace, but it's only recently that bigots have been successful in corrupting the very idea of equality.

What doesn't exist is a movement for sexual equality, an idea so odd it doesn't even have a name.
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Too many platforms on the world stage now. :/
 
Angilion said:
What doesn't exist is a movement for sexual equality, an idea so odd it doesn't even have a name.
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Well, there's Gender-egalitarianism, but that doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

In my experience, most Mens Rights activists are more for true equality than male-superiority.
 
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