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LanternWaste

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4. a contrived excuse that allows far too many men a convenient rationalization of our poor choices.
Mon Mar 24, 2014, 04:18 PM
Mar 2014

"A man's brains are between his legs" is little more than a contrived excuse that allows far too many men a convenient rationalization of our poor choices.

It's an excuse which denies us our discipline of both the mind and of the body-- and as human discipline can be a rather ethically inconvenient thing standing in the way of our desires, the weak man, giving in to those desires will use "A man's brains are between his legs" as a way to justify to himself that he has no control over his actions.

You (seabeyond, along with a handful of others) are often labeled a "man-hater" in point of fact, because you won't allow people to use that excuse, and call them on it... because you guys expect men-- all men (as well as all humans)-- to use our rational minds to overcome our childish excuses.

And the human condition hates to be held to a higher and more rational standard than the one's we are comfortable with... even if (especially when) that higher standard begins to deny us our convenient excuses to do what we want to rather than what we should.


Shame... shame on you for holding humanity to a rational standard instead of patting us on the head when we debase ourselves.

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