Reply #26: No, never did

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But it sounds like, well probably a good story, but not one I could easily read. Treatments for women. Shudder. So often times the cure worse than the ill, so much needless pain and suffering.

I noticed this following was a needless rant, I'm trying to stop now :)

I think I'd be okay with this world, the violence and horror and all of it, if it weren't for the pervasive sexism, hatred against women, and ignorance of it all. If it weren't for that, I might have been okay, you know what I mean? Might not be so bad, but for so many of "them" naming women the smaller, the weaker, the needier ones with a set lot in life, and them turning around and subjecting that smaller, weaker person to violence and unfairness of ALL kinds. Violence and discrimination against women is common. Commonly done by men, but hardly recognized that way. How ridiculous.

When a man wonders why a women would be offended, if he insisted on holding the door open. Yeah. How many ever had the presence of mind to understand how hypocritical that macho attitude is, if she's been beaten or raped? Oh, so you'll hold the door open for me then? Funny, a stranger, looked a lot like you, did something altogether different, and I know he thought it was thing to do, must have, but honestly it's left me distrusting the motives of ANY guy that painfully aware of his physical dominance, so needing of that recognition, while my casual admittance of your superior strength doesn't give me any good feelings AT ALL. Friend. Yeah, nice when they're nice, and real MEAN when they're not. Not to generalize, too much, but it's just one window into how one, and maybe many more than one, women might feel that men OVERALL would have no idea about. Why don't she like me to hold the door? Bitch. She might have been hit by a guy just a few hours ago, or been hurt by a big strong guy just like YOU. Jerk.

That whole macho gripe about "holding the door open", it makes me laugh.

I hold doors open for men, when convenient and helpful, and I tell THEM to be liberated. I say, let me hold the door open for you, and allow you the same caring. Allow you to liberate yourself from that need to help me, for a second, liberate YOU from that role.

I don't usually get past "Be liberated" in the speech though. They laugh. Usually. I'm happy either way.