Kirra wrote:
DE, maybe I have missed the man bashing threads, but all I wanted to point out is that the words and generaliztion is offensive to me. There have been enough comments to catch my attention, and I have been wondering why. I have bashed my exhusband and that's it. I enjoy reading the Glade, there are some incredible people here and I love the laugh factor. Sure, everyone has some bad experiences, apparently Wwen has had quite a few, which has caused him to be like he is. That's unfortunate, but it just bothered me that it has been more lately in several areas.
Evidently you have missed the man-bashing threads, or more specifically, the snide comments that make their way into threads about other stuff, like I already said. There's been no shortage of those over the years and we have a few posters who think they're just oh-so-cute when they do this.
Moreover, no one is saying "all women are like this". Wwen evidently has had more than one experience like this, and he seems to think it's not coincidence that he has. You, on the other hand, have apparently been the victim of just one
really bad experience. Wwen is specifically directing it at women because he's not into men and therefore the fact that men do it also isn't relevant to him.
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Now..what can I do about it? Nothing, ignore it..or make a comment like I chose to do. I think a woman that lies about being married is wrong, just as a man who does this is wrong. But to lump all women and men into this catagory to really wrong. I just wanted to make a comment to this effect. I can choose not to read certain peoples threads and put them on ignore, maybe that is the answer, or I can choose to state my opinion.
*shrug*
It's just the Internet, but I don't feel that way about some of the people here. I respect them and enjoy their jokes and commentary on the many subjects here.
I don't see where anyone is lumping
all women into that category. Wwen might be saying it's all the women he meets, which would tend to indicate he needs to go about meeting different women somehow.
Like I said, however, this thread is about
women doing it. That doesn't mean it's somehow mysogenistic to not mention men doing it as well since they aren't relevant to the OP who isn't interested in men. This attitude of "cricticizing women in general is mysogeny, but cricticizing men is just good fun" has been around on a wide scale since the Cosby show first aired. After hearing this lecture for 30 years, I'm tired of the double standard.