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[–]DimDroog 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Straight men have certain responsibilities that are infused into their character if they ever want to be a "man". To protect women, to die for them, to sacrifice themselves as "men" when letting the women and children go first on the titanic and be well spoken of or punished and humiliated as cowards if they dont fulfill their duties.

I always hated this particular line of thinking.

Hated it with a passion.

I'm a woman, for what it's worth.

Your whole comment is pure gold.

[–]TurtleChaos 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I guess it's good then that the whole "men nobly sacrificing themselves for women and children" thing isn't demonstrably true, like, at all. Just go look at the article Cass linked further up the comment chain- "the survival rate for men is basically double that for women." Does that make you feel better?

[–]DimDroog 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The reason I don't like it is because it assumes women are helpless little bubbles.

I'm tired of it.

Does that make you feel better?