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Men have and get all of those things already. (Troonery excepted, but I'm not going to defend that.)Men’s clubs. Men’s locker rooms. Men requesting same sex personal care in hospitals and nursing homes. Women need those as well. We can’t argue that we need troons out of the women’s loos when we are forcing men to accept us in their spaces. There needs to be balance and respect and boundaries. Women also need a space to just be around other women, the dynamic is different. Men need that too.
Are women (who are not pooners) actually trying to use the men's locker room? Which "male space"(s) are being invaded by women? Can you provide me a specific example that doesn't involve pooners and their urinal fetish?
P.S. There's also a stronger argument for keeping TiFs out of the women's lockers because of the possibility of sexual assault. On the balance it is probably more likely that a girl or woman is assaulted by a man in a dress than it is for a man to get assaulted by a 5'1" doodlet. Not that I want the doodlets to go bugging men in the bathroom, ofc.
Look, I asked you to explain the "natural relationship between men and women" and you went off the rails with this ranting about affirmative action and NGOs, saying what you want changed instead of describing what you say is the 'natural' relationship between the sexes.You know very well already that attempts to derail and mockingly dismiss the actual subject of the discussion do not work with me.
Youse guys' biggest problem is that you don't have a gentlemen's club where you can sip brandy and read the paper without any women around?Like a real life gentlemen club, for example. Also, we get to exclude males we dislike, like trannies.
??? This is why MRAism is ridiculous. Women want equal protection under the law, and the men whine about 'divorce rape' and the absence of appropriate places to cosplay Sherlock Holmes.
Repeating your credo in Latin doesn't make it correct. It is not an objective fact that a healthy body = a healthy mind. There are plenty of horribly mentally ill people who are (or were) physically normal, or even good-looking. (See: Troons. Incels.) There are plenty of horribly disabled people whose minds are still sharp. (See: Stephen Hawking.) Your truism that the inside matches the outside, doesn't hold. You're still repackaging a Stoic idea and presenting it as objective truth.The dismantling of Mens Sana in Corpore Sano genuine masculinity has hurt several male generations who have been endlessly been taught empathy and other feminine attributes are more desirable than strength and assertiveness.
I'm not sure why you think empathy and manliness are mutually exclusive traits. I just visited a male doctor today who exhibited empathy. Homicide detectives solving a murder have empathy for the victim's family. Jesus is a man, and he preached empathy. Many priests are men, and I don't think they can do their job without empathy either.
There's a balance to be had here, and I'm skeptical that you would agree to anything less than abolishing feminism entirely.
OK here's the reason to dismantle affirmative action: Bamboo ceiling. Asians face significant headwinds in higher ed because their achievements in math and STEM are less impressive to admissions committees and professors than the same SAT score would have been for a white applicant, to say nothing of a black one. Ceterus paribus, an Asian student has to perform better than a white one for the same academic recognition; and this is because (mostly white) people in positions of power here have a racial bias thatYou want affirmative action dismantled? Say it loudly, cause I don't care what your reason is as long as we improve meritocracy some increments.
I know you will refuse to say it though. Being against affirmative action is a HUGE no-no for a progressive like you, and can be life-ruining if found out.
that Asians are "naturally" better at math, or playing musical instruments, or chemistry or engineering or whatever. That's bollocks, they just practice a lot more, and often as not have their parents actively jockeying them to study more due to class anxiety (i.e. Tiger parenting.)
Affirmative action was supposed to make admissions to higher education more fair, but it's not achieving that goal. It gave woke, white admissions committees the power to promote black and Hispanic applicants at the expense of Asian ones, while white students were mostly spared (that is, no particular edge, nor disadvantage in admissions.)
And I haven't even gotten into the warren of perfidy that is legacy admissions. That's some real rich white people skullduggery; where a college accepts your layabout child because you're an alumni and a donor.
Tl;dr: Some people have to work hard to get into Harvard, and some people cruise in there without even really trying, and it's nothing to do with merit.
Have you even watched "It's a Wonderful Life"?The number of writers who can make that claim is vanishingly small across all of human history. Do you work in medical research? Do you build rockets?
It's about an average guy (George Bailey) who had big aspirations to go to college, travel the world, and become a titan of industry; but circumstances conspire so that he never leaves his hometown and has to keep working at his Dad's old Building & Loan company out of a feeling of social obligation. Bailey is so trapped in his hometown that he doesn't even get to leave for his own honeymoon. After a mix-up involving a lost bank deposit, among other frustrations, George Bailey decides to kill himself.
An angel intervenes and George tells him he wished he had never been born, so the angel takes him to an alternate timeline where George never was born, where he learns that numerous small acts of righteousness and charity in his life made a huge difference in the lives of those around him. Basically, if not for George the town would have become a slum and his loved ones all lead stunted, sad lives. George wishes he could live again, and the angel takes him back to reality. George returns home to find that everyone in the town has chipped in to replace the lost bank deposit, and George is thankful for his wonderful life.
An angel intervenes and George tells him he wished he had never been born, so the angel takes him to an alternate timeline where George never was born, where he learns that numerous small acts of righteousness and charity in his life made a huge difference in the lives of those around him. Basically, if not for George the town would have become a slum and his loved ones all lead stunted, sad lives. George wishes he could live again, and the angel takes him back to reality. George returns home to find that everyone in the town has chipped in to replace the lost bank deposit, and George is thankful for his wonderful life.
My desire in life has always been to help and make things better; to tikkun olam, to borrow a heeb word for it. That does not necessarily mean I need to win the Nobel Prize, or become a bitter old slumlord who steals other people's bank deposits, or conquer half the world. That is Caesar's stuff and it only lasts for this one lifetime.
Here is another heeb story to illustrate what I mean:
Perhaps you’ve heard the story of the Hasidic Rabbi Zusya who, as he lay crying on his deathbed, was queried by his disciples: “Why do you fear God’s judgement? You have lived life with the faith of Abraham. You have been as nurturing as Rachel. You have feared the Divine as Moses himself. Why do fear judgement?”
To which he responds: “In the coming world, they will not ask me ‘why were you not Moses?’ They will ask me: ‘Why were you not Zusya?”
Are you seriously hanging all of this resolute conviction on something you read in the Daily Mail? The British tabloid so famous that even disinterested Amerikans like me know it's a tabloid?It’s more to do with how the school system has changed from final exam focused to coursework focused.
https://archive.is/vgTon
This article is excusing the gap shutting duo g Covid lockdowns. Couple of choice quotes;
He said: 'It was down to teacher assessment favouring girls and also allocating lots of top grades to subjective subjects such as the performing and expressive arts and media studies, where excellence is more a matter of opinion.
'In exams, high marks earn top grades, so subjects where there are right answers such as maths and physics award the highest numbers.
'These are also subjects where boys greatly outnumber girls. Hence with exams, boys get more A*s. With teacher assessment, it is the girls.'
And;
Girls outperform boys in all nearly areas of educational attainment. This is especially the case when assessment is by teachers rather than by external examiners.
'The closing of the gender attainment gap was to be expected with the return of external marking of exams.
Saying the quiet part out loud there. Girls outperform boys but when it’s onjective marking the gap goes away. I’ve seen this happen over my lifetime: it suited me to do final exams, and I always loathed group work, but I saw how the system changed even over my time at school. During Covid there was no or very little subjective marking and it was all remote and the boys pulled level/ahead in objective subjects. If we really cared about educational achievement we’d be looking at ways to combine both learning styles to give high quality outcomes.