Aggy wrote:
> greg1199{at}yahoo.com wrote:

[...]

> > You know, it's really funny to watch all you battle-hardened old
> > broads have hissy fits because I've said I wouldn't yeild a bus
seat.

> No, dear. All us battle-hardened old broads have hissy fits because
you
> wouldn't give up your bus seat to a HEAVILY PREGNANT woman unlike us
> battle-hardened old broads who would not only give up our seat for a
HEAVILY
> PREGNANT women but for a man with a gammy leg, in fact anyone who
needs a
> seat more than we do, dear.

Note how the wimminfirster turns the passive into the active.  If I'm
sitting on a bus, and a HEAVILY PREGNANT woman gets on, and I continue
sitting, I'm not hurting anyone.  In fact, I'm not doing anything at
all.  I am passive.  But to hear Agly describe it, you'd think I was
actively pursuing and hurting the preggo.  She characterizes the
passive as the active, because she feeeeyuls like it is active.  She
feeyuls like a man should act under this or that circumstance, and his
not acting is a sinister act.  Such an idea is absurd on its face, but
wimminfirsters rarely shy away from absurdities, especially if they can
benefit from them.

This is the lot of a man in the west.  They won't just villify you for
what you do.  They'll villify you for what you _don't_ do.

Like sections of a prefabricated hen house, they assemble their vapid,
overbearing, sexist expectations into a gigantic checklist.  They hover
over you, tap their tiny feet, and compare you to their list.  If any
box is left unchecked, out comes the inept derision.

As for the man with the gammy leg, he's demanding nothing from you, and
if you give him nothing, he'll think nothing of it. He's not asking YOU
for any favors, and he won't care if you give him none.  Unlike the
feminist who loudly tells you that she's self-reliant, he really is
self-relaint.  Contrast this with the mouth-bellowing preggo, who
throws a tantrum if men don't give her what she wants.



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