How's that patronising? Most women I know are proud of being mothers.
How's that patronising? Most women I know are proud of being mothers. I am unashamedly proud of my mother.
Plenty of mothers would prefer to define themselves in other ways - by their career achievements, by their academic achievement or by their sporting achievements.
It reinforces the stereotype that women's defining role in life is to have children. Plenty of mothers would prefer to define themselves in other ways - by their career achievements, by their academic achievement or by their sporting achievements.
But it had already mentioned their professional/sporting achievements. That was the whole point of the tweet.
Since when are daughters or partners subordinate?! Or mothers for that matter?
We have an entire day devoted to mothers. Is that sexist?
The whole point of those three descriptions is that you are defining the women purely in terms of their relationship to a man. You are saying that their position as defined in how they relate to man is more important than any other thing that they might do when not playing football. Like their day jobs, for example.
Heres a little example, After she breaks up with you (or you with her) she goes to the club she just has to stand around to get guys begging at her feet to buy her drinks/take her out and talk to her.
I'm tired of hearing how bad woman apparently have it, boo hoo it just gets old.
Like why are so many women being beaten up in their own homes? Clearly some blokes out there are thinking this is OK, how did that happen?
Women not running around saying this is OK so maybe the only people left making excuses for this are men.
Same for rape, how often do we assume he was led on or she asked for it or being drunk makes this OK. Or more often that we just get defensive and refuse to talk about it.
How often are women trolled online or get death threats when they talk about this. Does society really need to react so aggressively?
I don't get any of this stuff because I don't experience it and they might as well be talking Latin, but I can at least recognise that something about society bothers women and we should at least consider our part in this.
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I don't get any of this stuff because I don't experience it and they might as well be talking Latin, but I can at least recognise that something about society bothers women and we should at least consider our part in this.
And what is your first reaction if a girl approaches you, maybe that she is easy? Who came up with that rule... yep, men.
That is why they let you do the running around, then everyone knows where they stand. We can't complain about the game if we made up all the rules.
Yep, but that doesn't stop me from considering that the issues they face are perhaps created by men, and that as a man maybe I should be talking about this a little more.
Like why are so many women being beaten up in their own homes? Clearly some blokes out there are thinking this is OK, how did that happen?
Women not running around saying this is OK so maybe the only people left making excuses for this are men.
Same for rape, how often do we assume he was led on or she asked for it or being drunk makes this OK. Or more often that we just get defensive and refuse to talk about it.
How often are women trolled online or get death threats when they talk about this. Does society really need to react so aggressively?
I don't get any of this stuff because I don't experience it and they might as well be talking Latin, but I can at least recognise that something about society bothers women and we should at least consider our part in this.
They let men do the approaching because that is considered the norm, it's also the easier position to be in as you don't have to be the one getting rejected. I happen to lurk a lot of different threads in these forums and I can tell you more than a few people have been discouraged from internet dating because of constant rejections, it's not easy putting yourself out there and getting shot down again and again. I'd like to think that any guy who got hit on by a female would probably consider it a refreshing change, but I like that you're trying to assert exactly the opposite.
Have you seen the domestic violence video on youtube(heres one in case you cant be bothered)? I suggest it's worth a watch, a male and a female switch roles being the abusers in a public area. Guess who gets laughed at? Guess which scenario people intervene? That was one small experiment but I have a very hard time believing that could not be applied to anywhere in the western world, what with the general consensus being women are the victims in domestic violence incidents. I can't remember the actual statistics off the top of my head but its a lot closer to 50/50 than you would like to think. There was a study on the male victims of domestic violence(I think it was done somewhere in NA), they found that upon reporting the incident the males were often the ones hauled off to jail even if the women were being the violent ones. They found the same trends with domestic abuse support lines, males reporting domestic abuse were often told they either couldn't be helped or were forwarded to phone lines for ABUSERS. Imagine the feminist hysteria if this was reversed. Believe it or not, women in a same sex relationship are the group most likely to have problems with domestic violence. And nobody is saying domestic violence is ok so I don't know why you are trying to assert the opposite.
Sometimes I wonder why many women let these disrespectful chauvinists anywhere near them.
Have you seen the domestic violence video on youtube(heres one in case you cant be bothered)? I suggest it's worth a watch, a male and a female switch roles being the abusers in a public area. Guess who gets laughed at? Guess which scenario people intervene? That was one small experiment but I have a very hard time believing that could not be applied to anywhere in the western world, what with the general consensus being women are the victims in domestic violence incidents. I can't remember the actual statistics off the top of my head but its a lot closer to 50/50 than you would like to think. There was a study on the male victims of domestic violence(I think it was done somewhere in NA), they found that upon reporting the incident the males were often the ones hauled off to jail even if the women were being the violent ones. They found the same trends with domestic abuse support lines, males reporting domestic abuse were often told they either couldn't be helped or were forwarded to phone lines for ABUSERS. Imagine the feminist hysteria if this was reversed. Believe it or not, women in a same sex relationship are the group most likely to have problems with domestic violence. And nobody is saying domestic violence is ok so I don't know why you are trying to assert the opposite.