Dear Men:

Ignorant sexists, racists, and xenophobes rarely care what other people think. Your problems are of your own making.

I like the straw man vacuum comment though. It was a nice touch to the overall rant.

Ignorant sexists, racists, and xenophobes rarely care what other people think. Your problems are of your own making.

I like the straw man vacuum comment though. It was a nice touch to the overall rant.

if you mean 'one's problems are of one's own making', obviously i disagree with that idea in its strong form; it's a question of degree, and i think it's a serious logical (and ethical) mistake to ignore context. if you are referring specifically to problems i personally am meant to have, i don't know what you mean (and again, don't care). i'm open to discussion with rational people who do not regularly resort to personal attacks.

Dear Women,

Please respect the personal space and humanness of men out in the world. If you are angry or frustrated about something search within yourself for the reason instead of taking it out on men. Figure out why you blame all men for the errors of a few and understand that this is unfair and sexist. I bet that you have experienced unpleasant encounters with some women but have refrained from generalizing that all women must be bad because you knew a few that were in your experience.

We, as women, need to understand that we are capable of harming men. It is not a one way street.
Just as we feel uncomfortable and threatened if an angry man were to invade our personal space, consider how uncomfortable a man may feel when we tar them all with the same brush or try to intimidate them aggressively.

Let's all learn to respect each other regardless of sex and understand that although it is unpleasant to be confronted with aggression, it is rarely personal. Learn the difference. Most men are not in the habit of hitting a women when they are angry. Lets not make assumptions. Stay calm.

oh right, because it's a level playing field everywhere. glass ceiling at work; reduced political participation at the highest levels; restricted mobility, voting and land rights; feticide of female fetuses; violence, spousal killings; sexual harassment and rape (including the institutionalized kind; in wars; even within military organizations, right here at home); massively disproportionate poverty, and access to education and health), it's sexist to suggest that might not just be down to a few bad apples here and there. please.

I love these responses. It's like sitting in a Philosophy 101 class all over again, and listening to the girl in combat boots during her daily rant while the rest of us are trying to discuss Plato's forms.

lol yeah it was a bit like that, fair enough.

(however comparing the OP to plato's forms, dunno)

The point is that not everything needs to be deconstructed ad nauseam via a feminist or Marxist approach. There are other viewpoints.

what you dismiss as vapid postmodern deconstruction, i call simple description of reality, counted in #s (of eg laws, senate seats, rates of mortality & morbidity, etc).

If I was allowed to participate in a race late, it would be silly to compare yourself to the people who started the race way ahead of you.

Which numbers of mortality & morbidity? You got to slice those in certain ways to help narratives.