Can we turn this around, please? I'm getting very depressed, and thinking of abandoning this thread, even though I know I shouldn't.
Maybe we can have some comebacks to these things, smart-mouthed, angry, or funny - doesn't matter, as long as it is more empowering than all the disempowering things being repeated here. (Yes, I know I said something, but I didn;t conside the effect of a full thread of these things).
By all means, keep posting "anti-feminist bingo" calls, but a few counter-calls would be welcome, too.
I'll start with :
"'they should think more about their children" - and the sort of world those children should grow up in
- "it's just a bit of harmless fun" - all fun and games till someone loses an eye, eh?
-"men are the ones being discriminated against." Tricky, because it implies an unwillingness to see others' points of view, but what about raising the "helpmeet" ghost (sharing burden of Man), or pointing out the brutal reality of any kind of rape of females (stranger or marital): men are generally stronger, and what is better, sex or death?