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The overwhelming majority of people are ignorant about the variety of human behavior--including self-expression--that is considered normal. If we are ...
October 11, 2017 at 02:50
If the science gods convene tomorrow and then emerge from a room and say in front of a waiting press corps, "Beginning now, psychology is officially a...
October 11, 2017 at 00:30
Speculation. At least until conclusive scientific evidence of a causal relationship is presented. And "why they are happening" refers to the underlyin...
October 09, 2017 at 04:40
I have, and will continue to, stuck to the issue that you made the topic of this thread: public mass murders. Things like individual suicides, acciden...
October 09, 2017 at 04:31
No specific statement. What science is there that supports your thesis that violence and murder are inherent features of firearms? People kill other p...
October 09, 2017 at 04:03
Stop wasting time and energy in uncivil discussions (see 70% of the posts in this thread if you don't know what I mean by that) over guns, violence, t...
October 09, 2017 at 03:49
What scientific evidence is there that supports your thesis? I would take a close look at any reliable scientific evidence--any research paper, journa...
October 07, 2017 at 03:35
The way that I remember the book, that is correct. Yes.
October 07, 2017 at 03:26
, If a woman lies to a man about using birth control; conceives, gives birth to, and raises a child and does not tell him; 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, etc...
October 07, 2017 at 03:20
It is not about civility, or the lack thereof, in the war between the sexes. I have already covered how uncivil and irrational gender politics inevita...
October 05, 2017 at 04:44
After reading this response I will have to side with the MRAs. I can't comment on the 99% of "manosphere" elements that the Southern Poverty Law Cente...
October 05, 2017 at 04:31
Warren Farrell shows in The Myth of Male Power that men, among other differences, have longer commutes to work on average than women do. I guess that ...
October 05, 2017 at 01:09
If that is true, it basically reduces men to nothing more than sperm donors.
October 05, 2017 at 01:05
I should also add that the Southern Poverty Law Center has named men's rights activists as a hate group. I hope that that does not include Farrell, bu...
October 04, 2017 at 23:36
I should probably add that somebody who is reading this thread is probably saying that just by bringing the topic up I am being complicit to misogyny ...
October 04, 2017 at 23:31
Why can't we just be honest? We don't really know why these mass murders are happening. Every explanation I have heard amounts to speculation. One thi...
October 04, 2017 at 04:40
Traits. Masculinity is not a belief. Saying masculinity is a belief is like saying attached ear lobes are a belief.
October 04, 2017 at 04:02
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goleta_postal_facility_shootings
October 04, 2017 at 00:11
Since when are masculinity and femininity "beliefs"? Well, I have no idea what I "express" other than my personal thoughts, feelings, emotions, imagin...
October 03, 2017 at 02:34
What's the deal with publicly, loudly, defiantly expressing anything? Narcissists in need of attention and approval? Identify politics as a way to obt...
October 03, 2017 at 01:26
I have to catch myself every day and correct the thinking that men are horrible excuses for human beings. "Wow!", I will think. "That stranger--a male...
October 01, 2017 at 22:41
Men are not billiard balls in a physicist's experiment. Men are not mice in a psychologist's laboratory maze. Men are not Pavlovian dogs responding to...
September 27, 2017 at 02:52
I don't recall ever in my life blaming feminism for anything. Some people blame feminism for the failure of the family institution, the marriage insti...
September 23, 2017 at 04:19
I am sorry that you experienced all of that. I am glad that you have emerged from it as a stronger person.
September 23, 2017 at 04:06
I did not say anything about "people". I talked about the message that boys and men get every day in the culture that I am a part of. "They" are irrel...
September 23, 2017 at 02:38
A straw man. The message seems clear to me every day: men are horrible, rotten beings; men are a necessary evil at best; etc.
September 22, 2017 at 21:38
I've seen much worse ad hominems directed against me.
September 22, 2017 at 04:48
But then feminists say that a men's rights movement is not needed; men's rights activism is misogynistic; "There is no misandry"; etc. And if somebody...
September 20, 2017 at 21:32
Yet, it is insisted that negatively stereotyping males is not hate for males. The stereotype that seems to dominate is that males are morally inferior...
September 15, 2017 at 06:17
How do you know?
September 14, 2017 at 05:14
You start out talking about stereotypes. Then you conclude with misogyny and misandry. Misogyny is about hate, contempt, etc. I do not see how stereot...
September 14, 2017 at 05:11
“It’s a sign of the times,” Neal Pilson, a former president of CBS Sports who is an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Professiona...
September 14, 2017 at 03:36
The author here says that microaggressions are gendered violence and that an example of such violence is women being interrupted. And you think that b...
September 13, 2017 at 04:14
Every feminist source I encounter is oblivious to men suffering as men. That discussion has already been going on at least since the 1975 publication ...
September 13, 2017 at 03:54
I wish I had a particular book with me right now. It defined evolution as the distribution of alleles in a population, or something like that. I do no...
September 13, 2017 at 03:33
What is the connection between that and people in esteemed positions saying insensitive, stupid things and it turning into an uproar often ending in l...
September 13, 2017 at 03:00
In other words, things like a Denver, CO sports writer saying on social media that he was bothered by a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 o...
September 12, 2017 at 03:10
I have not heard anybody in the social sciences or humanities say it, but surely somebody other than me--especially someone who makes his/her living s...
September 12, 2017 at 02:54
The bottom line is that we are not living within our means. New technologies often are the result of the need to cope with problems created by previou...
September 10, 2017 at 21:33
I hope that "you" is being used generically there and does not refer to me.
September 10, 2017 at 20:19
I think that it is clear that she is saying that hate/contempt for men does not exist and that all gender-based problems/issues are the result of miso...
September 10, 2017 at 20:16
I don't know. What do you think?
September 10, 2017 at 20:12
It seems that we have people saying here that procedures and products to enhance physical attractiveness are an instrument of the dehumanization and o...
September 10, 2017 at 05:26
Everybody is stereotyped. "All men are jerks" seems to be a popular stereotype. If you want something from the media, there's all the men in advertise...
September 08, 2017 at 03:13
No, I have never been a libertarian. I simply objectively stated a self-evident fact as a reply to the assertion that residing in a place is some kind...
September 08, 2017 at 02:22
But some people argue that they have never consented to any act of any government and that everything, from contributing to national defense to sendin...
September 07, 2017 at 03:15
It was all that would fit in the thread title field. It had nothing to do with "emphasis". There was a lot more after "Period". There's a categorical ...
September 07, 2017 at 02:44
No. But any honest, objective evaluation of the epoch of the last several centuries in the West must consider everything in that epoch, not cherry-pic...
September 06, 2017 at 03:36
Therefore, science, technology and the Enlightenment are the creations of corrupt, stupid?, greedy, selfish, cruel, ruthless, ignorant, immoral people...
September 06, 2017 at 02:50
I suppose if a person is looking for entertainment, comfort, a distraction, an escape, etc. science is not one of the better options available. Pop mu...
September 04, 2017 at 06:52