[extropy-chat] Who is really the dominant gender?
Hara Ra
harara at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jan 28 07:39:14 UTC 2005
At last, we come to male liberation, been acutely aware of this for 2
decades....
>c) Men are penalized by the legal system, are rarely, if ever, given
>preference in child custody, and are given the burden of proof in
>disputes over conduct in marriage and child raising. Men are served
>with restraining orders, eviction orders, and other punishing orders
>based merely on the say-so of their spouse, but men must provide
>evidentiary support to obtain similar orders against their spouses.
>More than ten times as many men are incarcerated than women, despite
>women committing more than 10% of crime, while boys are persecuted in
>the school system for behaving like boys and not girls. Men are
>expected to pay child support in an overwhelming number of cases, are
>declared the father based merely on the say-so of the mother even in
>spite of DNA evidence to the contrary, and women rarely pay child
>support when the situation is reversed. A woman can kidnap a fetus to
>another state, declare the name of the father, get child support orders
>against him, and he is never allowed any visitation rights. A father
>who does the same thing is automatically a criminal.
>d) In every society on earth, men live significantly shorter lives than
>women, despite women having to deal with significant medical traumas
>such as childbirth.
>e) female humans wear the dominant coloration, with flamboyant
>clothing, jewelry, and makeup while men are encouraged to wear neutral
>colors so as to not distract attention from their female companion.
>f) in studies on domestic violence, not only do they find that nearly
>twice as many women as men believe it is okay to commit violence
>against their mate, a similar proportion actually do commit violence
>against their mate. Men are discouraged by society, by the legal
>systems, from complaining about or prosecuting such abuse.
>
>=====
>Mike Lorrey
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