(BFlaig{at}gmail.com) writes:
> "Good for you, how about being a non self preserving sexist and share
> the manload?"
>
> I really don't understand what you mean by this, I have been self
> supporting for the last 30 years.

" The plural of 'anecdote' is NOT 'citation'. ".

> When women "always had men to lean on" was the time when women were
> also property.

Proof ? Uh huh.

Note that most *men* were just as much property, even into the 20th
century ( See " conscription " wrt WW1, WW2 ), with death being far
more likely...

> Women were bartered for economic reasons and the
> practice still goes on in many countries.

As are men. See " court ordered resource tranfers to women ".

> And the manload wouldn't have had the energy to go off hunting for meat
> if the womanload hadn't met the larger share of the foodstuffs in
> hunter gatherer times.

No proof offered ? Claim fails.

Take a walk out to your local downtoen. Then, try to point at any
device with at least one moving part not invented by a man/men,
not built by mostly men, and supported by men.

> My post was not about who is best at what but that there is a bias
> towards some skills and away from others. You do not create device
> drivers in a vacuum. If you see yourself as only giving support and
> gaining nothing in return and seeing women as leeches off of men, don't
> forget that you too were once much like a parasite of one of those who
> you admonish to carry half the manload.

Thank you for pointing out that *you* view women as being equivalents
of... *children*.

Its true, indeed, that anti Feminists could never view women as
debased as Feminists see them...

Andre




--
" I'm a man... But, I can change... If I have to... I guess. "
                                    The Man Prayer, Red Green.


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