I think we need a woman to give better examples than I can, I don’t know enough about it so I just went straight for the extreme examples.
Appreciate you’re not trying to be confrontational, neither am I.
I just think it’s pretty clear that in general men have more and better life opportunities than women, and I think feminism is an appropriate response to that.
And if thinking that women should have equality with men makes me a feminist, then I’m comfortable with that label. I mean, I dress badly and have hairy armpits so I’m already rocking the radical feminist look…
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That’s a funny cartoon considering the reality is that if either gender was totally fired, profits would fall.
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I referred to such a matter when discussing online conduct in a thread started by chaos. Real life equivalents of drive-by sarcasm has landed some men in hospital emergency rooms. What’s worse is some men don’t prefer retaliating one-on-one. A well-known 80s/90s gang from my part of Queens was known for swarm attacks.
A sort-of reverse misconception is “you’d never say that in real life”. Well, with enough strength and manpower a man can say what he wants. I know an older who back in his younger days used a racial slur to antagonize a guy he Had beef with. The friend of the provoked guy physically stepped up to the plate in defense and got beaten. I heard it was a close fight though.
I just made up a word with my cornball self: should-be-ism, the belief that the world should be a certain way when it just is, fair or unfair.
I’m not so fussed on that bit. I’m not really bothered if I like someone and they don’t like me and vice versa.
Yeah but Hitler and Stalin had some good ideas too.
The problem with BLM is that it is a far-left group that is driving a wedge between black and white people, when police brutality is something that affects all races. The main thing that Toronto BLM is fighting for is to keep the police away from the gay pride parade, which is kind of funny. But to top it off, most black people in Toronto are from the Caribbean where in most places sodomy is illegal and if people find out you are gay you will get killed, they aren’t exactly representing the views of the majority.
Now that I think about it, I’m not aware of any religious group in which the women are eager to fight down the patriarchy and embrace far left ideals.
You just need a thicker mustache
Strength in numbers is one thing, but they are going to have to walk around alone at some point. There was a few times in high school that a group of guys was messing with me and when I caught one of them walking down the hallway I beat his ass. I got in trouble for that once but after I told my side of the story they decided he deserved it.
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@EmilyQ
I’m sure there have been many single-mom households that wound up just fine, seriously. I’m sure with other right elements there, it works. But I take this info graphic I have saved on my phone seriously.
I guess this thread died down, and I’m the one who beat it to death. Sorry. Lol. I didn’t want to ignore your last tag though.
The conversation was good.
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Come to Thunder Bay. Free stabbings for everyone!
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You didn’t kill it, I was without power for part of the weekend and am busy today at work.
I’ll have more to say, tho!
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Or what about North Bay? I heard they say if you’re in North Bay and you have all your teeth you’re overdressed.
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People who are fighting against that are stupid. Her husband is working two jobs so that she can stay home and do housework and take care of the kids, would it be better if he quit one job and she started working instead and both did housework? Some people seem to have this idea that it is degrading for a woman to do housework but working for some company is “empowering”, I don’t get it. It sounds like they are living comfortably and she isn’t complaining, if she was doing this under duress then it would be a different story.
Getting up at 4:30 am and staying up until 9-12pm doing housework does sound like a bit too much, but you can be sure she isn’t under the same amount of pressure as she would be at work and working nonstop. For all you know she probably takes a break to watch TV and take a nap. As long as she is happy there is no reason to object to this.
I know a guy who has 5 kids with his wife and she stays home, it doesn’t sound like he does any housework but he has two full time jobs and works 80+ hours a week. He had a 3rd part time job (all fairly high paying healthcare jobs, $35-40/hour) but realized he was losing most of the extra money to taxes so he quit that. Is his wife taking advantage of him? Personally, I would never want to work that many hours, I would rather just have less money, but to each his own.
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No issue whatsoever with a woman who wants to raise a home instead, it’s thankless horrible work that I’d never do full time. Kudos to her.
That being said, it’ll be a cold day in hell before my wife is laying out my clothes at night.
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I would be extremely reluctant to take anything the Daily Mail has to say seriously.
But ignoring that, not entirely clear what your point is?
Disagree. You can’t be sure of this at all without being there.
You really think she is working 16-19 hours a day nonstop at a fast pace with a short break here and there? If she was I doubt she would be happy about it, and I don’t see how one house can have 16 hours of work to be done every day either.
Only she can tell you for sure, look her up on facebook if you really want to know.
Not really that interested to be honest. One anecdote, even if verified, doesn’t make a compelling argument.
My point was that running houses, particularly with small kids, could be extremely stressful, depending on the circumstances. Full time housewife doesn’t necessarily equal stress free or easy life
I agree, but nobody can argue that her husband isn’t pulling his weight seeing as he is working 2 jobs and is obviously able to provide for the family.
Honestly, I see nothing to argue about here. They are happy, let them be.
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While I’m at work, my wife works. Cleans, does laundry, does dishes, keeps the kid who’s not in school occupied by taking him to the park, playing games with him, organizes stuff, vacuums, etc. everything you could ask for. Then my work day whether it’s 8 or 12 hours is over and I’m home. It’s not like her job stops when I get home, so I help.
I have plenty of days where I’m beat after work and sit around for a little while, but at some point I have to clean something, occupy the kids, do laundry, cook, whatever it is. Not saying anyone is arguing against this mindset, just that being a stay at home mom is literally a 24/7 job, and sucks ass a lot of the time, so no matter how rough my job is it’s still part of my job to be a parent and a husband.
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Seems like most of it has to do with being alone with a kid all day, and living in a society where few people live like that. In some countries where it’s normal for women to stay at home with the kids (mostly 3rd world countries nowadays) you don’t really have that problem since they have people to keep them company.
An African lady was telling me how she had 5 kids back home but couldn’t imagine doing the same thing here due to the way the system is (daycare is expensive as fuck) and things are just different, she said one of her daughters recently had a baby and life was not easy for her. I suppose you could blame the feminists for that one…
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Uhh…that’s quite a reach.
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