The Disposable Woman.

P4-FSH · 2011-03-07T04:22:49+00:00

Can we just agree that we shouldn't be hitting anybody, and that it's marginally worse to hit people who are much smaller and weaker than you?

WhatATwist · 2011-03-07T02:23:07+00:00

Those poor innocent women, all they wanted to do was take Charlie's money and abuse him emotionally and physically!

Offensive_Brute · 2011-03-07T09:57:12+00:00

I can't help but notice that Charlie Sheen is getting a consistantly better quality of woman, in spite of hookers and drugs and DV charges...

zyk0s · 2011-03-07T02:19:51+00:00

Login required. That fact alone is enough to hate the NY Times.

2011-03-07T06:51:31+00:00

What really confuses me about all of this is why actions towards women are considered to be so sacrosanct. "Have you ever hit a man?" If asked, nobody would consider the occasional shove, or a heated argument with a roommate to qualify as 'hitting' - they'd reserve that for instances of extreme closed-fist violence.

But this writer lists a number of messy details which - quite frankly - are too far out of the norm for anyone's love life. When a muckracker looks hard enough, they can find evidence that everyone's an asshole.

This cherry-picked narrow view is then used to argue that he's a (OMG) wifebeater! Because where there's smoke, there's fire!

Sorry, but from the sounds of things he never Assaulted anyone; and I doubt those arguments where he 'shoved' a woman were because she burned a sandwich. Just as likely that she was shouting back, and pushing him around, too.

Stop pretending that women are innocent, naive little flowers. They're people. With all the strengths and weaknesses endemic to human beings everywhere.

rogersmith25 · 2011-03-07T15:12:38+00:00

Please tell me how it is still okay to generalize sexes and races together as long as it's "white men" being criticized.

We live in a contradictory time -- where opposite biases exist at the same time. Young boys are brought up believing in female superiority while our elders believe male dominance is the status quo.

Middle-aged people sit in the middle; they remember the biases of their parents and fight viciously against them. The Orwellian "double-think" possessed by a middle aged person is amazing. They believe that there is a society that has overwhelming anti-female bias while simultaneously creating a world with overwhelming anti-male bias.

How else do you explain an overwhelming female majority at colleges which still have extra scholarships and support programs for women only.

eyeofthestorm · 2011-03-07T01:30:07+00:00

The disposable man.{regendered}

fondueguy · 2011-03-07T16:23:42+00:00

Does anybody think this the author chose to use "disposable" women in connection to disposable men (the cannon fodder) of our society?

2011-03-07T06:57:25+00:00

I sent their op/ed desk a polite email explaining that they're better than Jezebel writers.

Title	The Disposable Woman.
Author	thetrollking
Upvotes	13
Comments	59
Date	March 7, 2011 12:47 AM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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