If you are a man wanting to post here, please read this first

[DeviTheGaelet]

www.inquisitr.com/3508199/mens-rights-activism-and-the-mad-rush-to-victimhood/

This is what male posters often do and this is why we might get short with you.
Don't do this and you will be fine.

I threw out my woman card some years ago.

A male friend sat in my kitchen table and told me pretty girls are the ones who really rule the world by manipulating men's desires. I told him he was wrong, but he persisted.

So I played my woman card. I stood up, pointed to my groin and loudly commanded, "MY PUSSY POWER COMPELS YOU TO CONCEDE THAT I AM RIGHT"!

He didn't, so I threw my woman card away. If all the pussy power men imagine attractive women wield couldn't even win me an argument at my kitchen table about pretty girls not secretly operating a global "femme-illuminati", then it was obviously useless.

I found one

And i have a laminator...

sillage

You should have had a proper card...that would have learned him

A laminated proper card

Was it laminated?

Bet it wasnt

Men like lamination

Its a thing

mmm...laminated

See told you

Wasn't The Laminator that film with Arnold Schwarzenegger in?

Gosh i think you are right cruella

I'll be back...with more laminating pouches

Isn't lamination something to do with GBBO and pastry?

tchah!< Thanks Helen. Just when I was getting over my craving for flapjacks, along you come giving me visions of filo-based treats... >shakes pudgy fist<

I was reading about the "surplus male theory". The author was stating that armies and navies existed in order to keep masses of young males from causing problems. But I was thinking that as soon as you build an army you may feel the need to invade something.

Well, yes. That is my theory on why societies that practice polygyny (men owning multiple wives) are more aggressive than societies that have monogamy or where the sexes are equal.
If every man feels entitled to several women, then some men do not get any women. And that will make them very unhappy, as after all, they feel entitled. You then have to get rid of them.
The problem also exists in patriarchal societies with a high rate of death in childbirth, I suppose.
Men feel entitled to own a woman as compensation to the shit they have to put up with in patriarchy. If the patriarchy doesn't pay up, they get angry.

Well I was reading another study that posited that "raiding parties" were a common feature of almost all early tribal societies. If there was a shortage of females, you raided some other tribe and took theirs.

I got interested in it reading an interview with the guy who wrote The Wire, the television programme about gang culture in Baltimore, USA. He was asked his opinion on what could be done about the situation. He said something along the lines that social programmes helped, but that there also just seemed to be an awful lot of surplus men. Prima facie.

I just scanned these things, but it got me thinking of things like cowboys, explorers, Vikings.... that perhaps up until recently there was an "over flow" for the excess men. I am sure these aren't original thoughts. And it seems like all the examples I could think of had a thread of violence running through them.

Please don't quote me on these bits and bobs.

This isn't. .temple of feminism.

It's just another board on MN, a big chat site.

No-one died and made you the thread police.

MN has make and female posters.

They can post in any topic, and post what they like.

MNHQ will delete if it breaks talk guidelines.

Just as they will in any topic.

And yes, all topics attract GFs and trolls, even the more sensitive ones. And the more reaction they get, the more they do it.

I think this thread is unnecessarily bossy and wholly counterproductive.

Ooooh "bossy" eh?

make your post is very thought provoking

viking

Why do you think it is counter-productive?

Well it is of interest. I think, as was mentioned above, that this feeling of deserving things, of measuring ourselves against these culturally constructed ideas of success is more fundamental.

Wait a minute

I thought devi WAS the thread police

Is viking saying she's not

Is Temple of Feminism an upcoming Indiana Jones film?

Devi is the thread please. It's her thread. She can do what she likes with it.

The reason why I, personally like the idea of this thread is that when men do come on and dispute the most basic tenets of feminism (that even I am aware of), it instantly derails - like that chap who was banned who kept wanting to talk about himself.

I'm more than happy to chat to any chap, as long as he's got past the basics.

*police.

saskia

datun oh thank goodness you said, i will go back to brownnosing

Hey devi ...how you doing

Bossy

Goodness.

Do you think we could also manage abrasive, shrill and and hysterical before the 1000?

And Indiana Jones and the Temple of Feminism is a film that needs to be made.

I am now imagining Indiana Jones and the Temple of Feminism.

It would have HF in his prime in his mid thirties, and a bevvy of beautiful feminists only waiting for him to show them the error of his ways (think Pussy Galore's flying circus, only hopefully we could leave out the rape scene this time round ...) It would be deeply unfeminist. It would do for feminism what Temple of Doom did for challenging racial and cultural stereotypes.