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In reply to the discussion: "Women are life support systems for pussy." [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)"women's place was to serve men"
I am not sure that was ever true. Most of the service was for children, far more than it was for men.
"Her value was in her attractiveness and her service."
And perhaps after the age of 30 it is more about service than anything else. But what is the value of a man in this society?
If the woman supposedly gets her personal self worth and social esteem through service to her family (which often loves and honors her in return) does not the man get his personal self worth and social esteem through service to his employer?
"I was smart. Smarter than many of the boys, who didn't like that."
And as a male geek, couldn't I write the same thing?
And couldn't I also write that most of the girls didn't seem to desire me because of my smart-ness?
"I watch my female students being groomed by their mothers to be the flower attracting the bees; I watch my girls obsessing over fashion and hair and makeup and I worry about them."
I had three sisters and don't remember my mother doing any such grooming. My sisters probably did spend lots of time on fashion, hair and makeup, but they all seem to have done "well" in life, however that is measured. They did better than I did. I worry more about my nephews than I do about my nieces. Although even my niece turned down two free years of college to instead take on $30,000 worth of student loans