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hizgeorgiapeach -> RE: "Men Are Better Than Women" (5/25/2008 11:47:48 AM)
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Personally, I find the boy laughable. He did, however, very pointedly remind me of why I Quit dating.
I'm a business owner - of a business that is Growing rather than hitting the skids. Something he claims women aren't capable of or are no good at. If we're no good at it, then why is a Woman's business thriving and growing, while all around me in the community I see Male owned businesses going under every day?
I'm a pilot. That is a traditionally Male hobby/occupation, which is still vastly male dominated - a woman who flies has to be twice as good to be considered half as good, and even after more than 15 years certificated I frequently find male pilots at the airport I fly from to be condesending. (Though that's more of a problem with the ones that are over the age of 50 - who seem to view it as "cute" that I have a serious appreciation for old war byrds.) If you look at news stories about crashes - it's not women who are flying and crashing, it's guys. While males make up the majority of pilots, if women were so bad at doing things that are traditionally male as this guy seems to think, it would only follow that it would be the women who are having at least a higher Percentage of accidents Proportionally. Funny though, when you hear about a crash on the 6o'clock news, the pilot was male.
I'm a parent. I raised my oldest child by myself - because the father considered that child to be an Embarassment and therefore abandoned us. His genetics were as guilty as mine in contributing to the birth defects that were present - so if he had Anything to be 'embarassed' about, it was his own family background and his own lack of honor and self worth in thinking that abandonment of a genetic responcibility was somehow "ok". (Not surprisingly, ex hubby was a chauvenist, and raised by a chauvenist father.)
All in all, I honestly think the real Problem with the guy is his own poor self image. He lacks confidence in himself and his place in the world and the scheme of things, and feels intimidated by women. The only means he subconsciously feels he has at his disposal to level the playing field are the rather juvenile tactics of dehumanization, denegration, and ridicule - in the rather vain hope that by Consciously considering everyone female to be somehow 'less' than himself, they will believe it as well, and give him a bit of ego stroking to boost his flagging self esteem.
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