Eve Ensler: men should live by their girl cells

2010-03-24T15:29:03+00:00

I'd rather live by reason. I'd say that I hope nobody minds, but I don't feel like being polite any longer.

FreddyDeus · 2010-03-25T12:23:56+00:00

Any reasonably thoughtful and observant guy who's been round the block a few times with the ladies will have observed the phenomenon of 'female intuition'.

What in practice this means is that whatever a woman thinks must be true. Even when she is talking bollocks.

This is why for example, even though I've never been unfaithful to a woman, I have been accused on a fairly regular basis of screwing around. Even when I have been able to present irrefutable evidence of my innocence, I know that she just isn't convinced and will still continue to indulge in veiled accusations or contrived arguments.

After all, how can empirical evidence be a match for a woman's instinct? They are, as Eve Ensler points out, emotional rather than rational creatures. Therefor whatever they think, however baseless and misguided, must be true.

And here we see the real difference between men and women. Men are not unemotional creatures, it's just that we know that to live in a civilised society, one must temper one's emotions with reason.

Women on the other hand, well, they're just fucking mental.

stemgang · 2010-03-25T14:11:05+00:00

I'm just saddened that we have to hear from people like Eve Ensler. But whether I like it or not, she is influential...

melb22 · 2010-03-24T15:34:46+00:00

Maybe we should all be less preoccupied by what is masculine and what is feminine and just do what we want without feeling pressured. The concepts of masculinity and femininity only have as much power as one conceptually gives them. Neither masculinity or femininity is necessarily good nor bad, and most people are a pretty equal mix of (traditionally) "masculine" and "feminine" traits anyway. It's pretty arbitrary to separate the two. Not to say that there isn't great social meaning placed on masculinity and femininity, but i think alot of problems and pressure being felt in the world about gender and gender relations would be decreased if we cared less about gender. Crazy, huh?

melb22 · 2010-03-24T20:10:09+00:00

Egad, what a terrible read.

First, feminists usually accept the liberal idea that autonomy is what matters. This means that feminists are committed to rejecting whatever is predetermined in favour of what is self-determined.

No, fucking RATIONAL, thinking people are in favor of what is self-determined.

The sign of a mental midget is usually blind faith in institutions - whether they are institutions of religion, society, government etc.

Rational people regard their lives as their own, and use that freedom to live as they determine.

"predetermined" is just another word for "tradition"

Title	Eve Ensler: men should live by their girl cells
Author	melb22
Upvotes	7
Comments	17
Date	March 24, 2010 11:29 AM UTC (16 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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