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Don't underestimate yourself.

I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't last a day in an average Aspie's shoes without going completely bonkers...

I think circumcision is a horrible, disgusting thing and shouldn't be allowed.

Censorship is also terrible.

I also don't understand the whole radical feminist movement going on. Am I a bad person for being male?

According to them? Yes!

Apparently, being a "White Cis male" is all it takes to be considered a privileged @$$hole and rapist, worthy of only their hatred and disgust.

Disagree with their insane ramblings, and you're also a "racist", "homophobe", "transphobe" or whatever Orwellian label they've come up with to silence voices of reason.

A bumper sticker I liked:
Why do we trust the government with automatic weapons?

Related - we seriously need to ban killer robots.

Of course not! Please don't take it personally.

No, what feminism is about is that there is an unjust, institutionalized, impersonal, social system that enforces gender roles and is oppressive to both men and women. This system is called patriarchy. To quote wikipedia, "It often includes any social mechanism that evokes male dominance over women. Feminist theory typically characterizes patriarchy as a social construction, which can be overcome by revealing and critically analyzing its manifestations."

As a male, you benefit from institutionalized male privilege. You didn't do anything to deserve or earn this, you didn't ask for this but you do have it. Don't think of it as a bad thing. Instead, use it. Use your voice to advocate for women in male dominated spaces.

Some women do prefer to have spaces free from men, not all the time, just sometimes. There are some behaviors that men tend to engage, like mansplaining, objectification, talking over you, in that are irritating to women that are manifestations of patriarchy, rape culture, or male privilege. This is not an attack on you, rather many of us just want a break from dealing with patriarchy and having to explain things. Even if you don't engage in those behaviors, there is still a context of male privilege that can creep in, it can make it difficult for some women to open up.

Sometimes on social media you might also see people being a little too over eager to make blanket attacks on all men and such. The important thing is to not take it personally. It is not about you. It is a backlash against patriarchy, a cry of the oppressed creature.

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Women have already surpassed men with respect to level of education :



Most people in jail are men :



Social security benefits by type :



Medicare :



Chronically homeless people :



Homicides :



American combat deaths and casualties since the Gulf War :



Suicides in the US :

Society isn't a machine, so there's no such thing as a social mechanism.

Society isn't a structure. Structuralism wasn't enough of a structure to say that it has collapsed, but it is taking a long time to die.

I think the US should become a hereditary constitutional monarchy.

The presidency is too powerful.

The head of state and head of government should not be the same person.

Wonder how you'd go about selecting the Royal Family?

Oh, and you don't want to fit everyone with heartplugs?

mebbe we couldn't do any worse with a parliamentary system similar to England? with a severe "question time" for the american PM.

Some countries have BOTH a president AND a prime minister. I believe that the Russian Republic is an example. Always seemed redundant to me, until I researched it a little. Countries that do that are the ones that got rid of their royal families long ago (like Russia) so the President does what the Royals do in England - act as the ceremonial head of state.

bullies oughta be weeded out and segregated onto a deserted island someplace.

I figure it would be best to pick some foreign royal who has no chance of becoming king/queen of their own country, and then have them renounce any right to the throne of their home country.

If we have heart plugs installed, then we'd need obese madmen floating around on anti-gravitational devices ready to pull the said heart plugs out.

Ready whenever you are.

Okay Baron.