Society, the media. We're constantly being told how badly off women are and how much better a male's life is. No one here is saying it, but it's constantly implied in every day life.

This is no longer true. The law was changed a few months ago. Change is happening. It's just slow.

Oh, women are also allowed to vote now.

Even though this is totally untrue of North American society (as well as most European and Asian societies).

Well, that is very good progress for them, glad to hear it.

It's true of Asian societies. It's true of pretty much every single third-world country.

i've heard several guys say that. i don't see it, but i'm on the wrong side of the line anyway
who gives a [censored] about the media though, it's controlled by what stupid people spend their money on

Since when do Japan, South Korea and Mongolia count as third world?

Lets not forget that China is also heavily developing. Though there are still some problems there.

i've wish id been a girlie, just like my dear papa

Commies, so the poor guys are screwed either way.

Not necessarily. Communism could work in a very wealthy nation.

So if you witnessed someone in danger or in need of immediate help -- let's say someone in a restaurant sitting next to you who's choking on their food -- do you just sit there and watch since it doesn't affect you?

Yeah, 'cause to get to the middle-east, all you have to do is to get up from the chair and take three steps.

Know what? Never mind.

Did I say they were? (Is Mongolia not considered a third world country?)


China's economy is capitalist. It could even be argued it's more capitalist than places like America, where things like copyright and trademark interfere with a free market economy.

A. Mongolia is not third-world. Many live a traditional way of life (yurts, nomadic life-style etc.) but have access to modern technology. On average, they are happier than most Westerners, so no, I do not consider them third-world at all.

B. Wasn't necessarily talking about their economy, but Communism as a whole.

First- and third-worldness isn't measured just by how much technology a country has... I'm pretty sure they're a third-world country. I may be wrong, though.


I want to ask what you mean by that, but politics isn't allowed.

Very well, let's end the argument before the thread is closed. Peace.

We were having an argument? Heheh.

Are you by chance a lumberjack?

A hairdresser.

-who wanted to be a lumberjack.



It's in the same spirit as the accountant who wanted to be a lion tamer..


..or defending oneself against the horrors of a homicidal maniac armed with fresh fruit

^

It's very difficult to talk to women in the U.S. about how the sixes are doing, because inevitably, women act like their life could be ten times better, and that the only reason it isn't is because the system (which they nearly always tout as being run entirely by men) is prejudiced against them.

Being a woman may svck in some other countries, but certainly not the U.S. Not by a long shot. Here in the states, it's men that have the short end of the stick. We don't live as long. We're over 90% of the people who die on the job. We can be sent to die in some god-awful hell-hole of a country for a cause we don't even agree with. It's perfectly legal to mutilate our genitals before we're even old enough to object. We have only two sure-fire methods of not ending up with kids, and when our other not-so-effective methods don't work, we're screwed out of money from our paycheck every month for the next eighteen [censored] years. We're denied access to shelters for victims of abuse. We can be locked up for years based on a woman's lie. We can lose our homes to the women we've been supportive and loyal to. We can have our kids ripped away from us at a moment's notice.

All of this is facilitated by the legal system. All of it.

No one has any business talking to me about some International Women's Day. Is there an International Men's Day? Why not? Last I checked, the countries where women have it bad, pretty much everyone else who lives there does also.

What's worse, being a girl who is a six slave, or being a boy who is a soldier?

Both are terrible things within their own rights, neither is okay by any means. Guess who gets the most attention?
Since six is still often treated as a taboo (which is [censored] odd), but violence isn't, it's the girls that are often in the focus.
But both are miserable, even if their sufferings aren't identical.

Yes but at least we have one thing; we can pee standing up!