I've written a blog.

[MementoMori]

One that may feel to you as though it's a personal attack. Some of you will think it's stupid to post on here but imo, I think this is the best place as you're the audience its intended for.

It needs a good clean up though and I want you to tell me if it's too abusive, if it generalises, if it is colloquial, and whether it made you think or not.

With an article of this nature and the variety of views expressed by the different personality types, it'll help a lot.

It's quite intensive though. Perhaps too much? Is it condescending? Tell me what you think.

Thanks.

:: deep breath :: aaaaaand... clicky.
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[numark1]

Blogs are for tards, no one reads them and no one cares.

not actually aimed at you in particular

[Mister James]

Not so much a blog as a rant, but an interesting read.

Nothing that's really new to me, but pretty well presented and might make some think.

Mark does have a point, most people don't take the time to read blogs unless it's someone they know well - in which case they are probably aware of your views already.

Still, you've obviously put some time into it, and it reads like it's something pretty important to you, so keep it up!

My only question would be "What do you hope to achieve?" - is it to make (male) readers think about the points, get it off your chest, or something else?
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[daz|n00by]

The way that you seem to mention men makes it look like a after thought
and what your really doing is shouting for women against men, the fact that you mention men now and then looks like your trying to do it to make it look like your also thinking about men when infact your really trying to put men down.

Make it one way or another but dont try to make it look like your considering both sides when infact your not.

does this make any sense to you? its hard to put into words how it reads really.
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[Mister James]

I'd go along with Daz there - it's obvious where your sympathies lie, and you have some powerful arguments that are undermined by your token mentions of a couple of male issues.
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[sickpup]

Ranting generalisations.

What are YOU doing to change things?

[ram_doom]

No offence but, blah blah stale, blah.
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[colin1]

A lot of the perceived injustices(opinions) you speak of, have been developed by our societies for practical reasons.

Although I am tempted to address each point and say why i disagree, that would be too long.

Men and women are not mentally the same. Men do not get pmt.

men dont do housework because they dont mind living in a messy house

Dont think its street harassment if a guy compliments you in a way you think is inappropriate. Its still a compliment.

women will never be equal in the workplace unless men get just as much paternity leave as women get maternity leave, and both are forced to take it. Even then, in general women arent as career oriented and arent as ambitious as men to earn top salaries. If they dont individually fight to get a top job they wont get one.

Id quite like it if a female builder wolf whistled me. If I fancied her, I might even ask for her number.

Why on earth do women object to that kind of attention ?
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[Sparks!]

Oi stop writing blogs and go make me some dinner

[ncrn]

[carvell]

I wasn't surprised to read the same old, boring, predictable "women give birth" argument.

Where do you work, MementoMori? If you're not a miner or a car mechanic or doing some sort of other 'man' job I hope you've got a damned good excuse! When you start a job, can you guarantee the company that you're not going to go and have babies for a year? Men are paid more because they're not going to do this. Oh yeah, what age do you plan to retire?

[Ork12]

Whinge whinge moan moan, would add some more points, but most of em have already been covered, especially the whole maternity leave issue regarding pay etc.
Alex

Forgot to add, IRON MY SHIRT NOW! :p

[MementoMori]

Thanks for the replies so far.

I must stress that half the points on there are my own opinons as stated at the top of that bit.

Are you all largely disagreeing with the FACTS bit or my opinions?

Also Carvell, you seem very angry in your post. You make sweeping statements. You ask me if I've ever had children. I ask you the same question as you seem to know quite a lot about this. Could you further your argument and tell me why you are so upset by my blog?

Thanks.
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[carvell]

Nah - feminist rantings and ravings like that just annoy me, not sure why, just really get to me. You'd be the first one to complain if you broke down with your bike on the motorway and you weren't assigned a "priority callout" because you're a lone woman, yet when you're treated differently anywhere else you'll kick off.

You hardly presented a balanced argument.

[MementoMori]

Well, this is what I'm interested in. I wanna know why 'feminist rantings' annoy men and arouse defense when the movement seeks to achieve equality for all people.

You said, "You'd be the first one to complain if you broke down with your bike on the motorway and you weren't assigned a "priority callout" because you're a lone woman, yet when you're treated differently anywhere else you'll kick off."

I wouldn't. I don't see myself as a female first, I see myself as an individual and I know that the likelihood of me getting attacked isn't that high. The risk's there for men and women.

I can understand why you think a feminist viewpoint wouldn't be balanced but in the end, isn't that the point?

I put my hands up to the mistake I made in the last post.

However, you claim that I've either not had sex or my b/f has a small penis.

Yet you seem to believe all women have very large vaginas (at least half the size of a baby with reference to your band and ball argument) in which case you've never had sex or been with some very rare people.
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[Mister James]

[MementoMori]

Thanks Mister James, I see where you're coming from. Perhaps that's my problem as some men might believe I'm one of the women who take adavantage of the past and play it to their advantage.

I never considered I might be coming across like that so thanks.

In order to develop a balanced view, could you lads do me a favour then and tell me in what ways you think men are discriminated against in favour of women? Try and keep them fact-based!

Thanks.
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[Mister James]

Just a little thing, and not really applicable, but at my place of work, men are discriminated against.

Most of our little cherubs are basically free-range scrotes, keys to their rooms, not locked down etc, but the nasty ones are kept in Secure or the Segregation cells.

Only male officers work these areas, with the nastiest and most dangerous scrotes in them. The argument goes that some of them are sex offenders and thus women shouldn't be exposed to them. However, even more of them are violent, or hate whites/blacks/asians, so the men are more likely to have someone take a pop at them than females are to get some sexual harrassment.

Female officers are paid exactly the same as men, and there are no unpleasant duties that only they undertake. Basically, I believe it's the misguided chivalry that I referred to in my earlier post overriding our supposedly equal society.

When it comes down to the crunch, the female officers effectively hide behind their gender, and let us carry the can. That the company enshrines it in policy is even worse.

As I said, not applicable to 99% of the population, or even me, (as a senior, I don't do menial jobs like that ) but it's something that is tangible and discriminatory.
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[phantomtek]

I think that 10cm (The size of a fully dilated cervix when the baby is pushed out) is slightly larger than a pencil head?

Or have I been going to the wrong stationary shops?

[MementoMori]

Lol no I meant that it starts off as around that pensil size but dilates (obviously) to get the baby out, and the process is fairly painful because it's quite a tight fight going from little hole to baby sized one.
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[phantomtek]

[MementoMori]

The penis doesn't go through the cervix you numpties!

It goes in the vagina. The sperm goes through the cervix. Have a butchers:

https://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a312/ilikeforks/vagi2.jpg
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[phantomtek]

[daz|n00by]

Just a small example that has popped up over the last 2 weeks.

Women Tennis players are campaigning to have the same prize money as the men at Wimbledon ok fair enough, but they dont expect to play the same amount of time as the men and dont expect to play the same amount of matches as the men.

Is that a case of women expecting to be treated like the men or just a case of wanting their cake and eating it?
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"I`m a tool, one with just enough intelligence to know it, just enough spirit to resent it...but not enough backbone to do anything about it. " Siggi 2006 pure class.

[MementoMori]

Yeah Daz, I agree with you on this one, though I didn't know they were definately saying "we want the same amount of money but we're only gonna play 3 sets."

If the women were to play the full 5 then I'd agree, and since I know nothing much about it, I assumed that they wanted to play the full 5 as to claim the same amount of money for less work is rediculous whatever gender you are.
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