Women get their rights taken away every other day? How do you compromise with, or respect, such a hate-filled, fact-free, extreme position?
Sorry, you’ve lost me now (and by the way, while I remember, what’s wrong with being a Christian?) but I suspect that’s an unhelpful, over-simplified take on reality. Again, I can’t comment on the US but if people took this on board they’d have images of women being dragged away in chains! Isn’t that slightly inaccurate and misleading? In the UK there have been injustices for both sexes e.g. men historically having to work until they’re 65 and women retiring at 60 and yet statistics show that women live longer. Where’s the fairness in that? Five years is a helluva long time especially if you’re working in a factory or driving a London bus. Men, historically, being the ones with the responsibility of providing a home and putting food on the table and yet hardly ever seeing, let alone, enjoying their families. Until recently I would hate to have been born a man.
As for my viewpoint, it is indeed a generalization. I would never claim otherwise. But I've more than once heard certain Brits proclaim that they have some special comprehension of America
Not from me! I hardly understand the UK let alone the US. As that Greek bloke once said ‘ all I know is that I know nothing’ and it would help if more people realised that about themselves.
I hope people who don't get it read her book or books like it so that at least they understand where these people are coming from. For me and my friends (newspeople and liberals all) we get what Trumpers are looking for. Yes, they're looking for peace and security and all that - but whereas we look for it through treating EVERYONE with respect,
Well it sounds as though your left wing are better behaved than ours! But are you certain that there’s no dissension/violence between the two sides when they meet? That’s not what certain news programmes over here reflect. The reason I ask is because that’s certainly not the case here in the UK with the extreme left behaving every bit as badly as the right, if not worse. They meet in the middle with their fascist, intolerance and their contempt for anyone who doesn’t agree with them. And for the Left, the sceptical working class is a big, big disappointment.
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Part 2
Date: 2019-12-30 05:56 pm (UTC)Sorry, you’ve lost me now (and by the way, while I remember, what’s wrong with being a Christian?) but I suspect that’s an unhelpful, over-simplified take on reality. Again, I can’t comment on the US but if people took this on board they’d have images of women being dragged away in chains! Isn’t that slightly inaccurate and misleading? In the UK there have been injustices for both sexes e.g. men historically having to work until they’re 65 and women retiring at 60 and yet statistics show that women live longer. Where’s the fairness in that? Five years is a helluva long time especially if you’re working in a factory or driving a London bus. Men, historically, being the ones with the responsibility of providing a home and putting food on the table and yet hardly ever seeing, let alone, enjoying their families. Until recently I would hate to have been born a man.
As for my viewpoint, it is indeed a generalization. I would never claim otherwise. But I've more than once heard certain Brits proclaim that they have some special comprehension of America
Not from me! I hardly understand the UK let alone the US. As that Greek bloke once said ‘ all I know is that I know nothing’ and it would help if more people realised that about themselves.
I hope people who don't get it read her book or books like it so that at least they understand where these people are coming from. For me and my friends (newspeople and liberals all) we get what Trumpers are looking for. Yes, they're looking for peace and security and all that - but whereas we look for it through treating EVERYONE with respect,
Well it sounds as though your left wing are better behaved than ours! But are you certain that there’s no dissension/violence between the two sides when they meet? That’s not what certain news programmes over here reflect. The reason I ask is because that’s certainly not the case here in the UK with the extreme left behaving every bit as badly as the right, if not worse. They meet in the middle with their fascist, intolerance and their contempt for anyone who doesn’t agree with them. And for the Left, the sceptical working class is a big, big disappointment.
Phew! I think I'm just about done here...