Re: Humanity fail.
@MNGrrl
"Generally, the same thing a woman needs to do, only with a lot less work, prejudice, judging, and they get paid more doing it."
The only place that that might have been true for me was when raises were calculated by a formula set by overseas management that was purely based on customer feedback. The formula was not permitted to be changed and I eventually priced myself out of the job I loved because I got "perfect" ratings from my customer base (50/50 male/female) and was eventually fired because I earnt more than the (male) manager. Mostly I have been paid the same or less than the females around me. My first wife earned more than I did. I married my manager (different job). The mother of my children earned more than I did (specialty nurse paid more than some doctors). Both had more freedom and respect than I did. Mostly I was the "man that fixes things" when IT department have fucked up or don't have the skills. I have always been a worker. The glass ceiling is too tough for me to break. Only sociopaths get through that ceiling in my opinion.
"I didn't say it was a good idea. I'm saying a lot of men are willing to do that, or at least consider it an honorable choice. These same men don't consider standing up for abused women honorable, and purchase their abuse with silence."
And I call bullshit on that. No killing is honourable and most men know that. For a start, if you want to live you do not fight with honour, you fight with every bit of crafty, deceptive nastiness you can. Cowards live through wars, heroes do not. If you want to live, shoot them in the back before they know you are there. You come back and you don't talk about it except with others who were there. But then you have never been there so how would you know?
I have never, ever, in my life personally observed a circumstances where a woman needed protection and men ignored it. Personal experience for me was three six foot wide and seven feet tall Maoris who could not understand why I was not a quivering blob on the floor (nor could I but I _had_ to stand up [as you requested]). They thought I might not be frightened enough and came back with shotguns. I had my ass saved by every other man in the pub standing up one after the other like a mexican wave. I and the whole pub (all unarmed) faced three men armed with shotguns over one of the Maoris demanding a girl who did not want to leave with them. That has been my experience. And you tell me to police my community. I have been proven to put my life on the line against impossible odds to preserve the dignity of a woman. Just how much of my blood do you want? But then, you were not there, so how would you know?
"Are you saying you'd like to be a woman instead? Obamacare covers that. I don't know of very many men who think they'd be better off as women. Not many at all."
I am sure you are smugly smiling inside thing "I got him now" but you are wrong. I am not a transsexual and have no desire to be. But I would not care if I was. There is "male privilege" and there is "female privilege". I see both. Most people only see one. Theoretically I am told that I cannot see male privilege because I am a man. In my case that turns out to be false. But if males cannot see male privilege because they are men, women cannot see female privilege because they are women. Except for the few exceptions for which it will be false. Interesting that you think being a woman is a lesser being. Maybe that is the source of your issues.
That was what I meant by "the grass is always greener". I mean you seem to think the grass is greener for a male. Do you want to become one? I guess not. Yet you put that on me. Sorry, I am an equalitarian and in the society that I live in I don't think I care that much about being male or female. No pride would attach to either. Now I would hate to be a female in the Middle East and I truely would not live long. But that is situation. When the situation is equal or close to equal I really don't care.
"I give it consideration every time I step outside the door. You, obviously, do not. This is just another case of blaming the victim. You try to turn it around, blame women. This is exactly what it looks like, people, so look closely. It's a charade of trying to look rational and logical. Well, here's the thing: We can and do rationalize our behavior all the time. And this is what it looks like."
You don't think I have to be concerned about my safety when I walk out the door? What world do you live in? Not the one I inhabit. I may live in the one of the safer places in the world but no place is entirely safe. I am an _old_ man and mostly alone. I do not feel safe home alone and am very careful about locking up. What makes you think I am safe on the streets? And if you say I won't get raped, well I might if I still used the public toilets outside the central post office. (Never go there!).
And no I am not blaming women. I am not blaming women for anything. It does not seem to me that you can say the same thing. You have insulted and abused, you have to be blaming me for something. I think it is you that is rationalising. When will _you_ respect men?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
