Baroana
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl You are young... not a dig at your age or your experience or your ability to hold a discussion... just a statement of fact. I am not young at 47. I remember the laughs men would have at the expense of women they raped, abused, tortured, stalked. These were open and vocal... at the house, at the work place... everywhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurman_v._City_of_Torrington To get a full understanding of what I grew up with, you should go to that link. That in no way excuses the laughter in the show. Sharon was being an ass... thats what people were laughing about. Its shock theater... no different than Rush. http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/03/02/has_rush_limbaugh_finally_gone_too_far_in_slut_shaming_sandra_fluke_.html Its still prevalent... now its on both sides of the sexual equation. Its not funny from either side. Osborn, to me, is just as vile as Rush.... and, just like Rush, in no way speaks for the majority of women. Difference is that violence against women is challenged much more than violence against men, as well as misogyny being challenged much more than misandry is. Show me where. It's all over the place. Recently I've seen a few adverts on TV about stopping violence against women, but nothing to do with stopping violence against men. A personal story would be one of my brother being attacked by a girl a few months ago. She kneed him in the balls "for a laugh". Apparently a girl kneeing a guy in the balls is funny. Anyway he instinctively reacted with a punch in the face. She posted the picture of her black eye on Facebook "this is what ____ did to me". There were hundreds of comments calling him scum, telling him to kill himself, loads of guys threatening to kick the shit out of him. He's a bad guy for defending himself because the person who kneed him in the bollocks had a vagina. That's the kind of mentality many people in our society have towards violence between men and women. I've seen this kind of thing happen many times. So, when you speak of this widespread problem in society, what you really mean is that your brother had an incident. Let's pick apart this transaction, and we will assume that it happened the way you say (i.e. the way your brother told you it happened). A girl kneed your brother in the balls for a laugh. How do we know it was for a laugh? Is that what she said? If so, then she's a sadist and a criminal, and your brother should have immediately reported her to the appropriate authorities. Did he do so, or did he react in kind with violence? He chose the latter. Are you starting to see then why the "epidemic" of violence against men by women, if there is one, might not be coming to light?* Your brother then instinctively reacted with a punch in the face??? If those are your brother's instincts, then he had better get some fucking new ones quick before he finds himself in prison for a long time. This is a good time to remember that we are discussing an isolated case here, and these events do not necessarily reflect the nature of men in general or women in general. In this specific case, though, your brother got thoroughly outsmarted by this girl. First, your brother made the completely dumb mistake of retaliating when he should have promptly reported the attack on him. Secondly, he picked the stupidest possible way to retaliate when he chose to punch the girl in the face (you see, she - unlike your less shrewd brother - chose to inflict an injury that wouldn't leave a huge fucking black and blue mark as evidence for the world to see). Now what was your point again? Also, how old were these two parties at the time? ---- * As for an epidemic of violence against men by men, which is something I think you mentioned earlier ... well gee, kid, I know you are quite young and just joining us, but the fact that men are violent - to each other and to women - is hardly fucking news in this world. If you don't like it, then start an annual parade or 5k or whatever the hell you want to do. No one's stopping you.
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