My take on sexism
if you are a man you and I have spent our entire life benefiting from the privilege society and culture has given us.
Never are we called into question or dismissed for our body shape or appearance.
Never are we called names for being strong,intelligent and assertive.
Never do we suffer for being paid less while expected to bear and raise children.
Stop fucking whining about the fact that women have been maligned simply for being a woman and work to make all equal.
So what if now and then it seems we get the short end of something,it pales in comparison to what patriocracy has done.
Centuries of war and killing is our male history,not something to be proud of.
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....thank you.
This guy gets it too:
His mom should straighten him out....
He needs some Androgel ...quick!!! Combat that wussy Lo-T Metro streak.
--they'll probably use the "no time, too much sex" defense. Then the Hoarders resident psychologist will straighten them out instead of Mom. Mom's off-duty.
And then the guy can get on with talking to men about sexism.
Good suggestion!
He wants to know if it meets with yur approval.
does it make a difference to hear this from a man's perspective?
Not the dude who gave him props for it?
I had that wrong...
Plenty of women would not like his message. It's for the open-minded of either sex IMO.
They would like that definition of chivalry in Urban Dictionary--"chivalry is when you want to rape her but you don't" Ha ha--
Yes I'm sure this is fine with his wife. OK didn't get the joke. Now I do.
until people come to think the object of their obsessive focus is the actual issue, and then the discussion starts being about something else entirely, with multiple threads like 'Why won't people shut up about looks?' or 'What do looks matter? We should judge each other based on our personality!' or other similar unrelated stuff like that... it's kinda what they do. Derailment. It's effective.
Anyway, nice OP.
While other get pissed off when someone opens a door for them. 
I can't believe people ever acted this way.
Maybe one day they'll say the same about my generation.
It takes some courage to speak out about sexism.
I have simply been blown away by all the hate expressed against women in recent times, and all the horrible, draconian laws that the Pukes and Tea Baggers are trying to get passed.
If men had to put up with this sh!t, there would be another civil war going on right now.
What many people forget is that ANY kind of oppression ultimately has a negative impact on us ALL.
The Ism brothers (class ism, sexism, racism, etc.), and the Phobia sisters (homophobia, hetero phobia, eros phobia, etc.) are long overdue for being starved out in the hearts and minds of us all, as well as death and burial with dishonor!
Injustice hurts ALL of us. It is way past time for it to all come to an end.
It is NOT right that the playing field is stacked most unfairly against everyone who is not: Wealthy; male; white; Christian. 
How many of us fit ALL of those criteria? We need to stick together and realize who the REAL enemies are: the 1% who are the ruling elite, the Robber Barons reincarnated (or their descendants...they never really went away).
The problem is that we tend to take whatever privileges that society gives us for granted, or worse, are not even aware that those privileges exist.
The other thing...whenever we hear a bigoted thought in our head (and sexism is a form of bigotry), we need to ask ourselves, "Who's voice is that?", because in most cases, we first learned to think like that from someone else. When we figure out who first spoke those words to us, we need to ask ourselves, "Is that true for me? Is that part of my reality? And, do I want to continue to think like that?". Bigotry has to be yanked out by the roots...and that means finding out what soil those roots grew from.
to you, for your post.
Let's see that point in BOLD:
"It is NOT right that the playing field is stacked most unfairly against everyone who is not: Wealthy; male; white; Christian.
How many of us fit ALL of those criteria? We need to stick together and realize who the REAL enemies are: the 1% who are the ruling elite, the Robber Barons reincarnated (or their descendants...they never really went away)."
How can we get bigotry and discrimination to go away, if we refuse to acknowledge that it exists?
Bless you, for your posts.
And, the current social standards and the ways that society's rewards are handed out perpetuates the discrimination and injustice.
If we want it to change...then we need to first acknowledge that unfair discrimination exists. Once it is acknowledged, then we can begin the work needed to change it.
The problem is that we are too often convinced (by those who actually benefit from the system continuing on unchanged) that we would lose anything worth having, by working towards justice for all.
The Robber Barons who benefit by the current system are not going to point out to us the lies and inaccuracies in what they pay the media to tell us. It is most unfortunate that we (unwittingly) cooperate in this process by being more concerned about what we think we might lose if there was justice for all, including making things right for groups that have been discriminated against.
It can help to look at what we might gain by working for justice for all.
And, yeah, that can take some time, a lot of introspection, some research, and the courage to face the truth, as well as a willingness to change.
I really believe that these issues, along with learning to live sustainably with the earth, are the most important survival issues that we face.
There won't be much chance at cooperation if we don't deal with eliminating unfair discrimination, and working together is desperately needed if humankind is to solve the many challenges facing us both now and in the near future.
I would love to see things change, where a woman can be valued for her talents and her basic self, instead of her value as an incubator for some man's sperm, or her looks, or any of the other sexist garbage which allows society to oppress us and treat us as disposable.
I would love to see things change, where everyone, men as well as women, had opportunities for good, satisfying jobs, instead of the military being one of the few options for training and schooling. I would like it if men could be accepted for their talents and basic selves, instead of for some Rambo-style blow-up doll kind of behavior and phony personality.
Bigotry hurts us all, social injustice hurts us all, and so does destruction of the environment and a refusal to share the earth fairly with the other beings who live here with us.
Denial does not fix any of that...and I am not referring to that river in Egypt. 
