Ask MensRights: Is VAWA Benevolent sexism? Can sexism be truly benevolent?

cuteman · 2008-08-28T05:24:16+00:00

any time you seperate a group you are saying they are unequal.

people must be protected, yes, but ALL people, you cannot have group specific rules.

If a straight white guy, kills a gay black guy why should it be a hate crime? Why cant a crime be charged as if it was one human hurting another human. Why do the rules change if a person is in on category or another.

for the record I am a white male, and white males as a group face losing the most power ever in history however I strongly believe in equality--- you can have stupid men, stupid women, stupid blacks, stupid whites-- You must earn respect and honor through honesty, loyalty and respect.

To add insult to injury 95% of all legislation is either a PR move or paying hommage to corporate lobbying

We need a Ron Paul vision of rights because only when you have liberty and rights protected for all peoples can you truly be free.

Those that would give up freedom for security deserve neither-- Ben Franklin

2008-08-28T13:12:55+00:00

You're asking two questions.

First yes, sexism is just a word we use to define the act, the act itself can be selfless, we can be sexist all the time without ever resorting to discrimination. Why, well sexism assumes a lot of things about people, like for example, equality. Now in the abstract sure we're all some greater or lesser example of equal but in reality we're nothing even close to this. It's fair to say that no two people on earth are equal, a tiny fraction come close and the rest of us are about as different as we can be.

Is the VAWA benevolent, well that's obvious, no. Not even close, if anything game theory tells us that eventaully every rule will be twisted to support a play style, eventually we become reliant on laws being there in order to just get on with our everyday things.

Women will eventually become reliant on such thigns being there to protect them from reality and as such will eventually have to wake up to the reality, it dosn't protect them, it just favours them heavily ater the fact and that isn't enough. This law will never prevent violence or help reduce violence or even come close to supporting women. Except ofcourse to give them a nice nest egg and almost garantee that a good player can use these laws to win the game (shit I JUST LOST THE GAME).

2008-08-29T02:56:50+00:00

I think the argument is being hammered out here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/6yhi5/women_have_sex_with_teenagers_and_walk_free_man/

Title	Ask MensRights: Is VAWA Benevolent sexism? Can sexism be truly benevolent?
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Upvotes	6
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Date	August 28, 2008 3:20 AM UTC (17 years ago)
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