Reply #21: I have never thought women stopped loving themselves or

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caring for each other (in spite of all the shit patriarchy puts on them)....but a big part of patriarchy is keeping women divided and conquered. I think men understand a lot more than you think. They have the power, want to keep the power, and aren't going to give it up without some sort of fight. They keep us divided by pitting the unmarried women against the married women; the black women against the white women....on and on. And of course, they use organized religion to do some dirty work as well.

I remember when I was in junior high and how some of the girls wanted to fight over certain guys....I wasn't going to play. Hey...if you want him that bad, you can have him. He ain't that great anyway. Society teaches women to compete with other women....I flunked that lesson.

Calling the police was the best thing...I just had that happen to me recently. The police show up and the women says she doesn't mind being pushed nor screamed at with the most hideous of misogynist words. The next day...I was the bad person. She was pissed that I had called the police. I was just glad that the Police showed up...I called them the next day and they were informative and helpful with advice. I would have been more upset if the Police had not helped. It takes all kind...and everyone 'gets it' at different times. My upstairs neighbors just want to be on Jerry Springer, I think. I gotta move!

But you're letting men off the hook way too easy,....they deserve some of your righteous anger IMHO. Women aren't the ones hanging out in parking lots of video stores.

I am twice your age....I am glad to see that you are angry. Anger is a sign of injustice. And thankfully you are expressly that anger in a positive fashion...otherwise you'd get depressed or start growing some kind of weird tumor inside your body...(that's my theory, at least).

I spoke with an elderly man at a Kerry Rally in '04...an attorney with 4 sons. He said that he told his sons that if ever women united, the joke would be over. I do hope we evolve...patriarchy, if it keeps going at this rate, is going to destroy this planet...and lots of men are becoming hip to this. This overly macho, destructive, behavior has got to stop.