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Conservative Male Privilege Be Like... (Original Post)
Soph0571
May 2019
OP
No you don't get it. The phrase "she got herslf pregnant" was invented for a reason.
Hekate
May 2019
#13
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)1. How true.
The male involved gets away free as a bird, while the female has a lifetime of guilt and child rearing. Why not expose the fathers to make this equal?
Baitball Blogger
(46,682 posts)2. Another way of looking at it:
She is going to have to live with HIS mistake.
bullwinkle428
(20,628 posts)4. Thank you- I was just about to raise my objection to the idea
of "her mistake".
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)9. You are not wrong of course BUT
Conservatives would never couch it in those terms!
Hekate
(90,552 posts)13. No you don't get it. The phrase "she got herslf pregnant" was invented for a reason.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)5. That's it right there. Boys shouldn't have to suffer.
Rich white ones, anyway.
oldsoftie
(12,489 posts)7. Um, pretty much ALL irresponsible men get away with abandoning the woman. Not just rich white ones.
proven daily.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)8. You're right....
After I typed that I thought of the other daily waivers dudes get over women and girls.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)10. Of course
But they don't actively legislate on it...
calimary
(81,107 posts)6. BOOM!
Sounds like maybe theyve reaped the whirlwind. wind.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)11. Grrrr!
meow2u3
(24,759 posts)12. And CONSERVATIVE male privilege is right!
Liberal, or even moderate, men would be charged with crimes for the exact same behavior conservatives get away with routinely.