Giddeshan Archive

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2	Who oppresses men? Do you think women are helpless or something? I never used the word simple; I said women could have demanded positions in the military, and with substantial effort they could have been granted them just as they have been granted the rights they have today. Substantial effort wasn't made by women collectively. You are looking at this from a modern perspective. Social change didn't happen because people stood up for it. That kind of thing didn't happen until the Enlightenment. People were massacre…	/r/MensRights	04/03/12 02:53 PM
2	Who oppresses men? You can't honestly believe that. That they simply elected not to fight. I bet you believe that they chose not to get an education or inherit property as well.	/r/MensRights	04/03/12 12:53 PM
2	Who oppresses men? That last paragraph makes little sense to me. Women had virtually no say in military matters and warrior cultures of the past have been extremely masculine institutions. I find the idea that male martial expectations stemmed from women's sexual selection to be ludicrous. I think you are giving far too much credit to the thought processes of ancient peoples. This wasn't some conspiracy to make men slaughter each other because women thought it was sexy. Their thought process was most likely: Men a…	/r/MensRights	04/03/12 11:18 AM