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MadrasT

(7,237 posts)

4. And yet...

Reply to seabeyond (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 03:54 PM

Aug 2012

...when I try to describe what this is like to men in my life, it is dismissed as being "hypersensitive", or "that ridiculous feminism stuff".

They will never know what it feels like to walk around in the world being viewed and treated as prey.

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Teen Girls: Depression? Really? How About Anger and Powerlessness? [View all] redqueen Aug 2012 OP

Food for thought Sherman A1 Aug 2012 #1

There was a book which came out almost 20 years ago... redqueen Aug 2012 #2

Just watch any MSM show femrap Oct 2012 #22

"Why are Women Increasingly Unhappy?" decades watching rape as entertainment seabeyond Aug 2012 #3

And yet... MadrasT Aug 2012 #4

sigh.... seabeyond Aug 2012 #5

... as things. redqueen Aug 2012 #8

Yep. whathehell Aug 2012 #7

Yes, well they say that depression is anger turned inwards. whathehell Aug 2012 #6

"I perceived my days of "freedom" were ending..." redqueen Aug 2012 #9

Yes, well, I suppose we're both lucky in that we whathehell Aug 2012 #10

mom was on the golf course around dinner. some man off in the distance yelled she should be cooking seabeyond Aug 2012 #11

Good for her! whathehell Aug 2012 #12

Times my butt. redqueen Aug 2012 #13

omFg. no way? what happens to a girl raised in that manner. really.... seabeyond Aug 2012 #14

Well all those negative stereotypes about men, redqueen Aug 2012 #15

amazing what a father gives his daughter. mine did not cheat, or have playboy seabeyond Aug 2012 #17

My condolences.. whathehell Aug 2012 #16

It was just beginning then... femrap Oct 2012 #23

"We need to allow them to be angry, powerful, physical" ChillZilla Oct 2012 #18

Women are not "hardwired" to get fulfillment from raising a family. MadrasT Oct 2012 #19

Yeah cause ismnotwasm Oct 2012 #21

Oh for gods sake ismnotwasm Oct 2012 #20

You need to go read a femrap Oct 2012 #24