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You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
There’s no one way to be a man.
Men who get their periods are men.
Men who get pregnant and give birth are men.
Trans and non-binary men belong. #InternationalMensDay
— ACLU (@ACLU) November 19, 2019
Ladies, remember the Women’s Movement from the 1970s? Remember how we were all supposed to be just like men? Have the same jobs, the same pay, the same ability to have free love, free sex with no consequences? Breaking taboos, such as going shirtless, burning bras, not being a ‘housewife’ but a ‘contributing member of society?’ As if having and raising children and keeping a pleasant home were equal to slavery. So some decided to be just like men, while denigrating others who did not agree.
Now women are beginning to disappear from societies such as ours. I suppose we are needed as much as a fish needs a bicycle. Men participate (and win) in women’s sports because, after all, we are all equal. ‘Men’ can have periods and babies. Men can raise a family just as well without a female influence. Being and acting as a woman — feminine, modest, and nurturing, but strong and solid for herself and others — is no longer a viable definition. The old admonition to ‘act like a lady’ (which I heard quite often growing up) could be considered hate speech today.
I guess we have come a long way.
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Why men would want to have periods is beyond me. But, hey, we’re all for diversity, right?!
Being drenched in testosterone is no panacea either. It’s like putting a NO2 blower on every other vehicle regardless of type, size, condition; hard on the throttle, crashing, blowing up and no one knows why. Looking for something, but not really love. I’m a racing machine! Vroom, vroom. Wanna race? Wanna ride?
It’s a wonder I’m still here.
The tweet says, “Trans and non-binary men belong.#InternationalMensDay“
OK, so I know that a Trans man is a women pretending (or whatever) to be a man so we should accept her as fully man. But if you are non-binary are you a man? I thought that non-binary meant you aren’t really one or the other so should we call a non-binary person “man” or “woman”? don’t those terms negate the whole non-binary thing? This is too hard.
Awhile back a friend sent me a clip of why women live longer than men. I don’t have time to try to find it but it was hilarious . Basically it was a clip of all the dumb things young men do to impress. Have to say I did a few myself.
If anyone needed further proof, this is strong evidence of the overwhelming radicalism of the ACLU.
There has to be some upside to having a ready-made excuse for being in a lousy mood.
The mood swings from that mixed with the aggression of testosterone? We’d be on like World War XII by now if it worked that way.
Note that they never define what a man actually is. What does being a man actually mean, then? If a man can get pregnant, what makes him a him?
I’m starting to imagine a completely traditional marriage which becomes suddenly homosexual just because the wife identifies as a husband. Nothing actually needs to change?
It’s not hard at all if you just make up the definitions and the “rules” as you go along.
If I ever get a period, I’m going to worry like heck. :-P
The worry is if you don’t get your period. You may be pregnant.
A Man Yer age, it’s the colon You gotta worry about.
Or menopause
[I was going for a play on punctuation]
Oh my God – I’m pregnant!
How will I tell my wife?
“So, the entire world is suppose to ‘accept’ You for what You are not, when You, Yerself, will not ‘accept’ Yerself for what You are.”
Toxic leftism.
I hope it’s hers.
Schrodinger’s men
I would blame the patriarchy, but leftist women did this to themselves.
Sigh…most of the women I knew as a child in a rural community did all the same work that the men did–drive tractors, feed animals, milk cows. Then they went inside and made supper and did the laundry and put the kids to bed. I really didn’t understand the feminist movement growing up in the 1950-1960s because I didn’t know many women who seemed oppressed. My dad held my mom in high esteem. She could do all the jobs he did, and half the time she was pregnant.
I get a headache over the trans-men thing. Seriously??
from public school draft policy (https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Draft-Transgender-Students-in-Schools-Guidelines-English-4.pdf)
This policy doesn’t include definitions of male or female, since obviously that would undermine the whole exercise. The language about “a person’s sex assigned at birth” is becoming common usage when discussing transgender issues. I used to be pretty sure that the nurse or doctor proclaimed “it’s a boy” or “it’s a girl” based on actual physical traits observed at birth. When did hospitals start assigning sex?
Anyway, we have to laugh or we’ll cry.
All those that replied to this, very good. You made me laugh. :-)
Just repeating this because it bears repeating. I regret that I only have one like . . . etc.
I believe there is a strong contingent that would insist that this would be a variety of true.
Put a person a pair of pants; that person is in a quantum male/female state until the fly is unzipped.
Don’t forget octal and hexadecimal men!
Women wanted to get different jobs so they became men. That didn’t work as well as hoped, so they and others decided to make men into women. That works much better. Will it all end by going back to two sexes or will we continue to the next phase forever, which is infinite range of sexes. It’s insane of course, so the real question is can we return to normal, after all we have learned a little about fairness and sexual identity.
I have a bit of sympathy for homely men who see how many doors are opened for beautiful women and would like that same experience. (There’s a great Dilbert strip where Wally is asked to imagine that he’s a woman. “People acknowledge my presence. They smile at me! I’m never going back!”)
The sad part is that they don’t realize that putting on a dress or using female pronouns doesn’t give you the status of a beautiful woman. After all, most women don’t have the status that comes with being a beautiful woman.
Or, a better way to say it.
The leftist matriarchy has inflicted an impossibly obscene patriarchy upon the women of our society.
Boys winning all the girl’s sports
Boys in girl’s locker rooms.
Boys winning glamour awards meant for women.
Boys demanding women wax their balls.