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AlexEsq's avatar

you are making big assumptions about the role(s) that men play in other peoples' lives.

Maybe you are truly blessed and have a loving man or men in your life who protect your interests perfectly.

A lot of people do not have such perfect men in their lives. A lot of women have learned that they need to work for their own well being & the well being of their children regardless of whether men are doing that. Or even if men are doing the contrary.

So while you are anticipating a criticism of your political affiliation, I can only say that telling women that they should defer to strong men makes huge assumptions about the quality of various people and their actual circumstances in life. God helps those who help themselves, right? Well, a lot of women have learned they need to help themselves because a lot of men are in the business of oppressing and taking advantage of.

Just saying.

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onemoretime's avatar

I didn't demonstrate a political affiliation. That is your assumption. I don't have perfect relationships with men. Another assumption. But if I as a mother was hoping that the rainbow people of Inclusion Equity were going to be my village and help me raise a happy healthy and empowered daughter, I was dreadfully mistaken. What I got instead was a bid to desex all, and browbeat anyone who even questioned, much less. objected to, that agenda.

Who cares more about my daughter, a)her father, or b) the nonbinary grad student with cutoff breasts, who is telling her that she needs to share a bathroom with all the boys in the class, in order to make up for her racial sin, or c) the admin of that school who has written all the grants on DIE etc to get government funding so that she can buy a big building in a black neighborhood and make lots of money?

Anser is A. I didn't say defer. I said respect.

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