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Perisada 5/10/12 . chapter 2Wait! What's that? *sniffs* I...I think I caught the faint aroma of a troll! This is so obviously fake. You're laying on the chauvinist pig vibe just a leeetle too thick, bub. Whatever, I hope you're happy riling up some women or whatever you intended to do by writing this. |
GossamerSilverglow 5/5/12 . chapter 4You know in the Golden Ages of Greece it was considered a right of passage for an older man to initiate a younger boy in the ways of sex? I’m worried that you’re going to make a ‘new Greece.’ Sure a lot of great art came out of that era, but with good comes the bad you know? I guess my question has been answered here about your views now that you’re older. You’ll never make everyone agree with you. You say women shouldn’t read, shouldn’t learn because they don’t need to be talking with the more intelligent men, that they only need to be in the kitchen cooking and having babies. I mean, I don’t understand why you would want to be tied to a stupid person. You could never have an intelligent conversation with your spouse if she never educated herself. What would you talk about? “Get on your knees,” or “where’s my food,” can’t be the only thing you want to talk about with the woman you love. You are belittling females in how you word things. You said “as good as a female could do,” how can you say that and expect not to get flamed? For starters I know more women who read the men. Probably 85% of the people who read this were women. I also want to say that it’s not just females that were made to procreate, men too. When you go to the beach, when you go to work, when you get a cup of coffee at Starbucks you are searching, even if you already are married, or have a girlfriend with a baby. Men and women search for each other, it is chemical—pheromones! This is one of the reasons why I don’t agree with marriage, because it insinuates monogamy. Humans cannot be monogamous, we were made for sex, look at the anatomy of our body. Your sister was afraid of you. You know that right? At first she was afraid of disappointing you because you’re her brother, she loved you, then it started to grow into fear when she started having her own ideas, her own ‘ambitions.’ And fear is just another form of hatred. It’s why she doesn’t call or text because she hates you. You like truth and evidence right? Take a course in psychology and find out how psychologically abusive you were to her, maybe then you’ll understand why she hates you. Now that it’s three years later after you posted this, if she is talking to you again, then she’s by far the bigger person. It’s a shame that you don’t put your good writing abilities towards something else. |
GossamerSilverglow 5/5/12 . chapter 3Wow, I did not see an Atheist coming. I went to a Catholic school where it was pounded into me that if I wasn’t Catholic I was going to their hell, which I thought was ridiculous. You know, I even had to pay more money to go to that school because I wasn’t Catholic, couldn’t argue with the other education though. I’m not Atheist, I believe in a higher power, personally, after a Comparative Religion course I found I enjoyed Hinduism most. In high school I was Wiccan, had to rebel. You wrote this when you were sixteen, do you still feel the same at twenty-one? Have you re-read your work and possibly changed your opinion, or do you feel stronger about them? |
GossamerSilverglow 5/5/12 . chapter 2The first essay was good and all, made some good points, and some uneducated points too, but this just made me feel creepy. Like a Priest that gives his life to God, does all this good, but then everyone finds out he’s been fucking sixth grade boys that go to confession, that kind of creepy. ‘This’ made you sound like a rapist and woman beater. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were both, but don’t take it the wrong way 'my reader'. I made a comment about polygamy in my first review, but you’re Catholic aren’t you, maybe Roman Catholic? |
GossamerSilverglow 5/5/12 . chapter 1What about the women who are infertile? Should they just die, because they shouldn’t be reading, educating themselves, or working? Based off your opinions it’s what they were made for, but what if she can’t that? Then she doesn’t fulfill that 10% (or would it be 5%) so what use would she be? I’m female, I am not a feminist, I stumbled upon this very well written essay, and I don’t take offense to anything you said because it is how you feel. I even agree with some of it, men definitely wouldn’t be mentally strong enough to take on birthing a child and shouldn’t try. I just wanted to know what happens when you find out the woman you or a buddy falls in love with can’t give you a biological child? I guess this is where being a polygamist comes in right? Oh, and a, please think of something more creative than adoptions that is if becoming a polygamist isn’t your answer. |
Frozen Apple 4/5/12 . chapter 4I do not feel sorry for you nor think that you are a jerk. I do not agree with your opinion but it does not mean mine or yours are bad. They are just subjective. I even agree that feminism is not good because women and men are not equals completely. We are both human, after all (this is equality). But how would you now what women are created for? In that matter, men are just source of material (and only half of it) to make a child. They seem to do nothing more essential if one would look with your eyes. Why do you think that men can enjoy their life playng football, for example, and women lack that ability because they are not safe? Men die in wars, which are dangerous, as you see. Isn’t it stupid? You can endanger yourselves but we mustn’t because our functions are to bear kids and prepare food and without us you will die from hunger. If you would look with my eyes, men mustn’t put themselves in danger because then we will cry and feel sorry wich is not good for health, especially when pregnant). Really, men are humans, too and as you cannot see where lay human rights and where lay rights of each gender, well. Only this deserves pity because you don’t think of yourself as human (I try hard to be as human as possible too, I understand you) but you should because the in other way you will never know their real nature. |
Miss-You-Too 11/6/11 . chapter 4You sound like an idiot and alot of your points were contradicting, rude, and had nothing to back it up. I would love to debate with you because i can clearly see your having trouble formulating your ideas without coming off rude. And may i ask: woman are 10% and men are 90%...of what exactly? And please direct me to the website you got this poor excuse of a statistic from (though am sure you just pulled straight out your rectum.) |
Amethyst Asheryn 6/2/11 . chapter 4Perhaps you would manage to convince people to believe in your "idyllic" world if if you presented them with hard facts, and opinions not set to prose so purple they become hard to take seriously. I believe I reviewed this once, a long time ago, when I couldn't articulate my thoughts to save my soul, and I've read it over several times since. Each time it gets only more ludicrous. Apart from a small reference to animals never seeking to better themselves in your first "essay", you make no comparisons that could sway anyone who doesn't already take your view. And even that isn't a good way to convince the large population of female writers on this site that they should put down their laptops and writing utencils and go back to the kitchen. Work on your persuasive writing, and maybe eventually you might succeed. Of course, you'll never get anywhere talking to your readers as if you're standing atop Mount Everest and they cowering on the shores of the Dead Sea. I'll forgive you for being ignorant of these facts, if your level of verbosity is inversely proportional to your knowledge of the world outside your own home; however it is a clever writer who treats his readers as equals, lest they become annoyed with his condescention and leave him talking to air. Even your precious menfolk won't continue reading if you talk to them like they were children. From the reviews I've read, it appears many have already done just that. None of this will help you if you don't have a good philosophy, though ... And yours is more full of holes than swiss cheese. Dream of your eutopia, of all the great figures long dead whom you will somehow resurrect to stand by your side. I hope it remains such a glimmer of hope when you lie old and feeble on your deathbed and are still able only to conjure it in a dream. |
NinaBinaBallerina 1/20/11 . chapter 3Dear 'Aristotle's Second Coming' (forgive me if I laugh at the narcissistic title), Just a little nugget of information. The X-Gene (the woman's gene) is bigger and healthier than the Y-Gene(the male gene). Generally, the Y-Gene (and i am quoting my college Biology professor) is considered the 'stupid gene', because it is tiny and contains very few elements of information. It takes more complexity of nature to create a woman. Your essay is highly offensive and demeaning, your poor sister is obviously emotionally abused, and i pity that poor young lady you impregnated. I doubt she will stick around too much longer (that is to say if she is not emotionally abused as well). If you talked to me like you talked to your sister, i wouldn't 'mumble'. I would say take your views and shove down your own throat and see how they taste. Oh, and you say you are sixteen? I noticed. Considering your youth and inexperience in life, I will take this offensive piece of complete garbage with a grain of salt. You obviously know nothing of life and women in general. I am not saying some of your points are not true. For one, men are physically stronger then women (some of them, anyways), and women should embrace being a woman. But being a women does not include just "staying in a kitchen". Being a woman is about embracing the complexity of our thoughts, emotions, and strength. A woman has to have strength of mind, body, and soul to undergo labor and to raise a child (I would know, I've been through it). This is something a sixteen-year old boy couldn't comprehend, especially one with such a narrow mind. In no other ways is a man superior, besides being fractionally physically larger. My mind works just as effectively, if not more so than yours. In fact, I pose a challenge. Go on, prove your wit, self-proclaimed 'Second Aristotle'. *Crickets chirping*...I thought so. |
bekeyboo 8/27/10 . chapter 4I am not going to flame you. I have one legitimate question: Is a woman as intelligent as a man? From what I recall of your essay, you focused mainly on the fact that men are stronger than women, which is mostly true. Let's say 99% of the time. Women have better balance. But I digress. Sarah Palin could have become president, and was a legitimate contender. Women are just as smart as men and, though I agree that women should have children, we should also be allowed to use our minds and get jobs that pay just as much as men. Congratulations on your son. I did know that Rex meant king in Latin, I have known that since the sixth grade. PS: I am a thirteen year old girl and I understood every word of this. Thank you for giving me something for my brain to chew on. xoxo, bekeyboo ;) |
Aslin17 8/14/10 . chapter 1In all likelihood you will probably not read this review. However, after reading your essay, I feel compelled to respond. I will commend you on your writing style, it was well worded and organized. The content on the other hand, saddened me greatly. I do not think you can comprehend how dehumanizing I found your essay to be. I am utterly sorry that you regard the female population as mentally and physically deficient. For all the intelligence your skill in writing may reveal, your close-minded generalizations of women seem to suggest a lack thereof. I sincerely doubt that whatever I write here will have an impact on your opinions. This is simply an effort on my part (no matter how futile) to try and impress upon you how completely saddened your views made me, how infinitely distressed I am by the reality that our society has not progressed. I believe you to be a product of that society, and in such a sense you are a victim, whom I can only pity. While my words may have no effect upon you, I can only hope that if reincarnation does exist, you will one day live the life of a woman, and maybe then you will understand. |
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Wishi-chan 6/1/10 . chapter 4“The true job of any philosopher is to look upon the universe and not pass judgement.” Your opinion is, I summarise, that women should have no duty beyond producing children, yes? And in some way, possessing a womb makes them inherently inferior in all respects, except reproduction, to men. Frankly, I find this laughable. In fact, your “philosophy” bears MANY similarities to the Nazi Party’s policies on women. Like you, they argued that the women’s place was in the home, with children. Like you, they revered women for this. But even in Nazi Germany, THIS DID NOT WORK. The policy of having women in the home drained skills out of the economy; women had to be forced to go back to work eventually, because otherwise Germany could not sustain itself. In the Second World War itself, women had to be drafted in to protect their cities. Now, people often go down the route of using “Well, Hitler did it...” to villianise their opponents. As you can see, I haven’t done this. I’ve simply pointed out that taking women out of the workplace, and preventing them from participating in society in any meaningful way, does not work and actually damaged the country that tried it. Next, let us explore intelligence. You say that women are less intelligent than men. This makes absolutely no sense. There is no scientific proof for this. It doesn’t even make sense from an evolutionary standpoint; women, as gatherers, would have to know the difference between what plants were safe to eat, be able to escape dangerous situations with the minimum use of force, be able to treat wounds. All of these require intelligence. If women were less intelligent than men, do you really thing they would have survived the harsh conditions of the past? In fact, walk into any school. You will find a wide range of abilities, talents and hobbies amongst the student body. You will also find that just as many girls are gaining top marks as boys. You then argue that women only achieve high ranking positions by use if their “feminine wiles”. Have I received A* throughout my school career through using them? I certainly hope not. Has my sister received more university offers than anyone else in her sixth form, and for medicine at that, using sexual manipulation? I don’t think so. And my other sister; two excellent degrees from two of the best universities in the world by being a “pale imitation of a man”? Seeing as her work was marked with no knowledge of her sex, I doubt this. You say that women have no place in any field outside the home. One of these being philosophy. Have you ever heard of Hypatia? She was a Grecian scholar in Egypt, and taught philosophy, mathematics and astrology, making several important discoveries. Were her discoveries worthless? She is just one of many, many women who have contributed to the sum of human knowledge. Is the discovery of radiation worthless? All those other amazing things done by women, do they not count somehow, because it doesn’t come under a woman “fulfilling her duty”? Another point you make is that women need to be protected. You’re right, the world is a dangerous place. Did you know the age and gender group most likely to be a victim of violent crime are men aged between 18 and 35? I am assuming you are within this group. Maybe you should stay in the kitchen, barefoot, and look after the kids? Your girlfriend is statistically far safer than you out there. On the subject of statistics, may I ask where you picked up the idea that a woman was 10% and a man 90% ? What does this even mean? 10% of what? A full person? The perfect couple? You then talk about balance. The eastern idea of ying and yang. I don’t know what you understand by balance, but isn’t it 50:50? Or better yet, 100:100. Women can be complete without men. Men can be complete without women. You insult and degrade both genders by defining gender-roles so rigidly. Men and women are different, it’s true. But this doesn’t mean they can’t do the same thing and be just as accomplished. For example, take this recent financial crisis. Men are far more likely to take unnecessary risks than women, and this, in part, is what has caused the current crisis. It is argued that if boardrooms had been more BALANCED the recession would not be so deep. It might have been avoided completely. Next, your sister. I won’t talk about this for long; it’s obviously deeply personal for you. But I have to say, having been a victim (and come out stronger for it, thank you) of emotional abuse, I can recognise it in your poor sister’s reaction. She has been indoctrinated since birth, this you admit, that she is “less” than you in some way; that she cannot be what she wants to be, even though this is a key part of current society, and something you obviously take for granted. You call her weak for not being able to express herself clearly to you when you confronted her on the issue of football. She was not weak. She was afraid. Afraid of disappointing you, afraid of being made ashamed of something she loved. Stopping her from playing football is not keeping her safe. The only thing she’s in danger from is her own independence. That is all I shall say on the subject, other than I hope you are happy with what you have wrought. I have read all your authors notes, and have, if anything, found them even more worrying than the rest of your piece. You say you view yourself as a “messiah”, a “Prometheus”, someone who will change the world with your ideas. Each are worthy endeavours, but you seem sure than you will definitely achieve it. Wanting to remake the world in your image is not the mark of a philosopher. The great people who have changed the world, do you think they intended of it to happen? The people you name as heroes are wide and varied, but each had something in common; they wanted to ADD to human knowledge, not imprint their own beliefs onto everyone else. Inflated self importance is common in teens, but in your last chapter, you show the worrying signs of a “god complex”. Onto your point in the last chapter that any women who doesn’t abandon anything in life to be a mother hates her own gender and womb; I’m sorry, but who have you been talking too? My mother is one of the strongest, most wonderful people in the world. She is a woman. She works full time, has a degree and has her own life. She also has three kids. She believes in equal rights. Does that sound like a woman who hates her own womb? Someone can have femininity and be the equal, in almost all respects, of a man. I love my own body. I love my gender, and am constantly in awe of the fact that I can nurture life inside my own body. It’s just not the centre of my life. I can do OTHER things. I can be a person, have a life outside my home. I want to learn about life, people, society, love. Just like you, I want to be a philosopher. Why should I concentrate on one aspect of who I am as a person when there is so much more to me than just a womb on legs? Good luck on your baby son; may he learn to treat the Regina’s around him in the way he would wish to be treated himself. |
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