I would hope as much as you have talked to Jeffery Shipman about his situation that if you have heard from or know where Jeffery is that you would volunteer such information to the F.B.I. for we are talking about the well being of a child now. Unless you approve of him kidnapping his daughter and taking her away from the rest of her family. How do you feel about her mother never seeing her at all. No visits every other weekend or I evening a week. There are legal ways to handle things and we may not agree with them , but without them this world would be chaos. Find ways to change things yes, but don’t rob someone else of there rights because you think you are being treated unfair.

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In Lethal Weapon, Danny Glover moans, “God hates me.”
Gibson’s character replies (in true aussie glib), “Hate ‘im back. It works for me.”

Now, Mel Gibson is a product of a nation where a candidate for Prime Minister in the last election announced that religious people were “just loopy” on national TV – and almost no one noticed.
So go figure.

Amor

You know, grizzlie, I am so naive I thought we got passed this stuff decades ago. When I ran into the modern gender war, it really surprised me. The prejudice towards men has gotten deeply ingrained into law and politics – not just in America, but around the world.
It’s disgusting.

Everyone plays off the old gender roles. I think mostly because it’s all we know.
No one has figured out how to surrender to their passions and instincts without doing the mating dance game. Strange as it may sound, it makes us all so very primitive and tribal while we act so sophisticated.

And then one side or the other decides they’ve had enough of putting on the pretense, and from the confusion comes misplaced anger and resentment.
What a bad joke we all are.
And I have to admit I’m as hypocritical as anyone. I still enjoy opening doors for women, and the best date is still a long intense conversation over dinner fascinated at a woman’s unique take on things – without any overt mention of sex, it’s intensely erotic.
Yet at the same time I respect responsible women in positions of authority. I even go so far as to expect a woman to be responsible for her actions; not like the childish, self-centered Brittany character in the cartoon. To my mind, Brittany is a woman who’s looking to take advantage of her sex, simply – and not worth treating with any more respect than an errant child.
She doesn’t realize it, but she’s setting herself up to be treated like a thing, not a person. In the popular parlance, she’s objectifying herself.

And you, grizzlie, are just doing the same thing. In fact, you’re reactionary thinking is surrendering control to the Brittany’s of this world. She treats “you” like fecal matter, and you say that’s just the way it is.
Well, it’s not. And that’s the message – to my mind – of Teri’s blog.

I think it’s long past time we told the Brittany’s to grow up; and did a little of the same ourselves.
Brittany has no right to transfer her discomfort and frustrations to the guy who greets her. He, – nor any other man – is in the world to take her abuse just because she’s female.

That cartoon implies that the guy on the floor would approve of Brittany’s reasons. Now, that is crazy. What’s sad is that it’s an attitude that is widely pervasive from individuals to the lawmakers and courts.

Hint: Letting a woman crack your skull is not chivalrous. It’s just plain stupid.
I’m not going to say the guy on the floor should stand up and knock her down because that’s not something I would do. However, it is a common personal choice, I know.
What he should do, in our sophisticated non-discriminating society, is to call the police and have her arrested for assault.
Unfortunately, we all know what would happen there: He’d be laughed at by the police, and everyone around him.
It does sorta put the man in a lose-lose situation, which is intolerable.

It’s intolerable for the simple reason it denies him a sense of self-respect.

The man doesn’t stand up and knock Brittany down. He does what most decent men would do: He simply leaves the picture silently.
Where he may ultimately lose his self-respect is if he were to continue to express any interest in Brittany. Some may call this “Love”, but it’s just enabling abuse.
It is, in the final analysis, his choice though.

The sickest part in this cartoon is not Brittany, or the guy who disappears from the picture, but her friend who condones and supports Brittany. She is enabling abuse, too.

The very human kicker is this: Brittany and the guy may someday date – the abuser and her enabler may form a relationship.
Thing is, Brittany has already introduced violence into the relationship, along with selfishness and abuse.
It’s not hard to see what sort of relationship they’ll have; or the course it will take.
He’ll be obsequious towards her for a while, enduring her abuse as just “Brittany being herself”, and then one day he’ll grow tired of being spit on day after day.
All that rage comes flowing back, and … He goes to jail for assault and abuse.

There’s a kicker here too, in our contemporary social attitude: He doesn’t ever have to do anything. He may never strike her. He may, in time, try to get her to change her actions – to become responsible for her actions.
But she is addicted to abuse. Not only will she not change, but she’ll accuse him of the abuse!
And thanks to the male-bashing in cartoons like the one above, most people will believe her; including the police, social services, and the courts.
He can lose everything along with his self respect to simple prejudice.

But again, he made his own choices, didn’t he?

The empowerment Teri is talking about here is responsibility for one’s actions – otherwise known as the basis for self-respect.
Brittany made her choices, too.

Amor

What is clear is your inability to read! Teri clearly states that bashing guys is “unacceptable”. While I’m not sure how you came up with the sow reference, perhaps you can improve your reading AND comprehension skills by starting over with the Cat in the Hat. That appears to be closer to your education level and is closer to the barnyard animals you appear to prefer…

Congress is full of those with similar ideology such as yours, but they use bigger words such as Pelosi, and even immigrants instead of illegal aliens. Trying putting your anger aside long enough to recognize when a women is admitting that there is a problem in her gender world AND she is attempting to educate and recruit other women to assist in correcting the matter at hand. Did you really pass first grade?

It’s a megabuck industry, Ranger, and now there’s another sow lining up at the trough.

And if you hadn’t run out of aliases, you’d have received a lot more.

***** I’m humbled.*****

You have a great deal to be “humbled” about.

***** Yes, some women dislike me when they first read my stuff. *****

Right now, at least one man despises you, having read your stuff.

You have a great deal to be humbled about.

Yes, some women dislike me when they first read my stuff.

No, it’s not. If the shoe fits, wear it.

***** When I wrote this article and used the word “empowerment” I meant the kind of empowerment that brings people up to their potential, that’s all.*****

That’s “all”? As if that weren’t bad enough?

***** Many people, male and female, have issues keeping them back. Showing them how to overcome these things empowers them. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with the opposite gender. *****

Yes, it does. You have many different ways of saying that you hate men.

Yes, some women dislike me when they first read my stuff. I own a single parent group online and many of the single moms think I hate women. But after they get to know me, and see why I do this, many come to our side. Now I can always count on agreement on our issues when I post there.

Her hard consistent work and the stuff that comes out of my a—–e bear a suspicious resemblance to one another and both of them are in your mouth.

***** It may be a zero-sum game to you but its you that doesn’t add up.*****

And it’s you that doesn’t measure up.

A woman who wants to empower women is a woman who hates men. A man who wants to empower women is a man that hates himself.

Think of a desert island with two men and one gun. The gun can only be in possession of one man. How do you empower one man without disempowering the other? Relations between men and women work the same way.