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If you are a man and you make poor choices in life, you are called a fuckup or a loser
Major Nikon
Mar 2013
#11
not from what i have seen, single fathers can leave their kids with their mother(kids grandmother)
JI7
Mar 2013
#24
Men are assumed to be bad parents whether they are or not. Women get the opposite expectation.
Major Nikon
Mar 2013
#38
That men can live in a prison of THEIR OWN making by adopting outdated stereotypes?
bettyellen
Mar 2013
#240
So you're not in the vast majority that reads this as pathetic flame bait? LOL
bettyellen
Mar 2013
#244
There are also women who sit at home and do virtually nothing while their husbands are wage slaves
Major Nikon
Mar 2013
#264
"not from what i have seen" When you are able to see things from other than your perspective...
cleanhippie
Mar 2013
#340
Absolutely not true at all. Single mothers are "irresponsible". Single fathers are "heroes."
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2013
#262
It's funny you say that, because just about every choice a woman makes is heavily scrutinized.
Dash87
Mar 2013
#27
no, women are viewed as property in those cases, you think that's a positive for us ?
JI7
Mar 2013
#54
Men view other men as expendable. It is primarily other men who send mostly men off to war.
Luminous Animal
Mar 2013
#57
Well, there is that pesky thing about reproductive rights. We all know that Republicans
Luminous Animal
Mar 2013
#123
Women cast 54% of the votes. The elected officials we have are the ones women chose. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Mar 2013
#147
As if we have an alternative choice between one war mongering man or another.
Luminous Animal
Mar 2013
#150
Good for you. I'd sure hate to think that you were criticizing the lack of women in office...
lumberjack_jeff
Mar 2013
#165
I don't need to detail my finger lifting to validate, to you, my political commitment.
Luminous Animal
Mar 2013
#193
You, like most DU'ers, find it easy to explain why men are in jail. They're criminals, duh.
lumberjack_jeff
Mar 2013
#220
If we're only counting stuff like county treasurer and congress, I guess I'm zero for zero.
lumberjack_jeff
Mar 2013
#222
Not only are we allowed to fuck up. We are allowed to blame it on women...
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2013
#260
He invented his own rule. Men fuck up all the time and often suffer very few
geek tragedy
Mar 2013
#73
I'm a man, for one. For another, the vast majority of households are dual income
geek tragedy
Mar 2013
#96
I, apparently, was an outlier as well. Nearly every relationship that went beyond a date or two
Luminous Animal
Mar 2013
#52
there have been many women who talk about their guy not being into sex when they want
JI7
Mar 2013
#45
If you haven't figured out by the 1,236th time how to give your woman an orgasm,
Luminous Animal
Mar 2013
#62
Every time you have sex with your husband you're jumping up and down with an orgasm?
UnrepentantLiberal
Mar 2013
#107
Nope. Sometimes neither of us do. Sometimes one or the other of us don't.
Luminous Animal
Mar 2013
#115
Obviously your hubby is more of a man the the OP. This is just what he's talking about. You know?
Ed Suspicious
Mar 2013
#138
Nope. And I think that if the OP met my husband, he would deem him less
Luminous Animal
Mar 2013
#149
Oh please. The husband who's lost interest in his wife sexually is one of the
geek tragedy
Mar 2013
#88
It was never that way. Women have always been able to let it be known to a man
geek tragedy
Mar 2013
#79
From what I see with my 23 year old daughter and her friends, this is just not the case anymore.
Luminous Animal
Mar 2013
#30
I've never for a moment thought it difficult to be a man. My wife and I discuss the challenges of..
NRaleighLiberal
Mar 2013
#16
Perfect. And all the male CEOs fucking up companies and getting their bonuses.
we can do it
Mar 2013
#317
being able to pee while standing up totally rocks, and it gets better from there on out...
KG
Mar 2013
#46
that's changing as new buildings are constructed with lots of women's stalls. Hollywood bowl has
Liberal_in_LA
Mar 2013
#64
I saw a show at an old theater in LA. During intermission, long line formed outside ladies room
Liberal_in_LA
Mar 2013
#72
If you define "cannot be discussed" as "does not agree with you," maybe. (nt)
Posteritatis
Mar 2013
#89
Everyone who listens to me in meat space for 5 minutes knows I'm a lifelong nerd
geek tragedy
Mar 2013
#112
I don't know about your world, but in mine manhood extends beyond tenth grade. (nt)
Posteritatis
Mar 2013
#86
Why does "it's not about being the toughest guy in the room" torment you?
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2013
#58
George W Bush and Dick Cheney are wealthy and free to travel the world. nt
geek tragedy
Mar 2013
#82
This reads like what a boy would imagine the troubles facing men would be.
geek tragedy
Mar 2013
#104
I don't think anyone really has any fucking clue what it's like to be anyone but themselves.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2013
#108
Or everyone is Jane March, having sex with Bruce Willis as he drives a r/c tank over our belly.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2013
#263
You haven't come across a situation that had you thinking about what you might have done differently
UnrepentantLiberal
Mar 2013
#151
You know what's funny? I'm a woman and sometimes I do what you just described.
justiceischeap
Mar 2013
#279
From my reading, most of the respondents who are disagreeing with you are men.
Squinch
Mar 2013
#141
oh please, this is a discussion forum certain threads will always attract more criticism
JI7
Mar 2013
#241
ironically, that assessment seems to be simply be another way of policing masculinity
fishwax
Mar 2013
#221
I think most guys have some experience with men who say one thing while among men...
lumberjack_jeff
Mar 2013
#225
No. Generally, the actors in question are consciously or subconsciously trying to get laid.
lumberjack_jeff
Mar 2013
#233
Torment, women just don't understand, men die early, men are losers, we're fuck ups,
trumad
Mar 2013
#122
Those of us with great brothers, fathers, husbands know it's a difficult job... and we appreciate
midnight
Mar 2013
#128
Empathy: putting yourself mentally in another's shoes. We need more of that. eom
Taverner
Mar 2013
#186
That is because long-standing American anti-intellectualism now differentially harms young men
eridani
Mar 2013
#314
I'm a man. And I've read enough feminist and queer theory to know this is bullshit.
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2013
#258
"The patriarchy punishes men for not living up to the masculinity standards which it sets."
UnrepentantLiberal
Mar 2013
#294
Women have contributed their share to keeping the patriarchy in place.
redgreenandblue
Mar 2013
#296
I'm sorry, UnrepentantLiberal, but you have a really skewed idea of how women
Th1onein
Mar 2013
#313
You know what? I can't stop thinking of things I want to say in response to your op
cali
Mar 2013
#318
You're right. The only thing harder than being a white male in today's society...
Orrex
Mar 2013
#329
yet so many men make such poor life choices and then go on to do great things or become imp people
La Lioness Priyanka
Mar 2013
#346