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Bonobo

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3. Talk about millions of men dead in wars... you get "Men did it to themselves".

Reply to kjones (Reply #2)

Tue May 5, 2015, 12:35 AM

May 2015

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Talk about men dying early and you get "stop whining. It's biological (ironically from the biology deniers).

Show statistics that suicide is more prevalent among men... get called an MRA and they scream that women TRY more often or some nonsense.

In the end, what you see over and over amounts to "shut up, whiner and listen to US."

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What we talk about when we talk about Boko Haram. [View all] Bonobo May 2015 OP

This has been going on all over the continent forever basically Major Nikon May 2015 #1

Sometimes I wonder kjones May 2015 #2

Talk about millions of men dead in wars... you get "Men did it to themselves". Bonobo May 2015 #3

Men are the oppressors so they can't possibly be oppressed Major Nikon May 2015 #5

I've had interesting discussions kjones May 2015 #6

If the idea of intersectionality were useful, you could use it in reverse. lumberjack_jeff May 2015 #7

Yeah, I don't know kjones May 2015 #8

The bias is part of western society too. lumberjack_jeff May 2015 #4

Go ahead and do a Google News search on "Boko Haram". Bonobo May 2015 #9