Men

BrightandBreezy

Lol. I don't think it would be a more peaceful world with only a few men to go around all the women. Think of the fights and competition for the few men available. They ones kept as sperm donors would soon have a willing hareem desperate to free them to be an 'only' with them. Could make a great novel or fantasy film though. 😄🤔😳

Herland. Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

I think, watermeadow that your statement about men is rather a sweeping one. Not all men are as you describe, (I’d even suggest the majority are not), and not all women are sweetness and light, gentle, caring beings, either.

Callistemon21

Who would do the ironing? 😲

Same person who does it in our house. Mr. Nobody.

Well we have to agree to disagree then. I do think men get a raw deal. I could easily be a man hater. My father was a monster. However, and I have posted this before, when my lovely nephew joined in a conversation at work he was told by a woman 'As a white, heterosexual male, your opinion is of no interest'.

No. I like men, love my man to bits.

Perhaps you have a better holiday post?

Kate1949

Well we have to agree to disagree then. I do think men get a raw deal. I could easily be a man hater. My father was a monster. However, and I have posted this before, when my lovely nephew joined in a conversation at work he was told by a woman 'As a white, heterosexual male, your opinion is of no interest'.

What a sad place the world would be without tolerance and understanding and appreciation of difference.. I feel for your nephew...what a horribly prejudiced comment

TerriBull

Very late April Fool's Joke maybe???

Otherwise a pretty awful thing to say about half of the population and a very blanket statement attributing all of the world's ills to men per se

I agree, can you imagine the outcry if that statement was reversed.
Misandry rules

Yes indeed pascal and he's such a sweetheart.

Whereas I feel a bit for your nephew re exclusion

for heavens sake - that is exactly what has been happening to women and PoC over centuries at home, at work , in terms of clubs, in terms of educational opportunities - right now in the police and fire services

surely he realises why a woman might say that? that he has experienced what has happened to women and PoC for so long!

I've never heard a man tell a woman that her opinion is of no interest.

I think she was rude and ignorant.

We’d still have Patels, Bravermans and Truss’s though …

Kate1949

I've never heard a man tell a woman that her opinion is of no interest.

Oh sadly, I have - many a time over my working life, in fact. But I certainly wouldn't tar all men with the same brush.

That's a shame Blondiescot. I worked in the Civil Service for 40 years. I met many men who thought they were superior but they thought they were superior to everyone not just women. I just used to think 'Think what makes you happy but you are wrong.'

There are plenty of nasty women around just as there are nasty men. Men have had the power in the past so more opportunity to do wrong but that does not make them worse than women.

No, no. Mine is a bit worn out now but still quite good in most departments. A world without men, what an awful prospect. All those bitchy women un diluted

I'm with kate1949.

MrsKen33 A world without men, what an awful prospect.
All those bitchy women un diluted.

Agreed. A truly boring thought.

Rant coming on!

Mothers get blamed for everything... It's time people, and that includes men, take responsibility for their own behaviours.

Mothers do the best they can from their own experiences of mothering and mothers ,like everyone else, have their own difficulties and faults. No mother wakens in the morning and says, 'I wonder how I can be a bad mother today?'

My own mother was cruel and messed up. I don't blame my mother and I have taken steps to heal the things she got wrong. I can see where my father and society in general didn't support her mental health issues and let her down. Women were mostly deemed hysterical and not taken seriously if they had mental health problems. My generation are the children of that generation of women.

Do you ever hear people say, 'I blame their fathers'? Rarely.

Blaming and belittling mothers is, in my opinion, another way that men (and sadly some women) can put women down and not take responsibility for their own behaviours.

I blame my father.

Do you ever hear people say, 'I blame their fathers'? Rarely.

Yes we often do, because a lot of fathers just bugger off (excuse the expression) and leave the mothers to bring up their children alone, often struggling without much money and support.
How often do you see a news item about a mother struggling to heat the house, feed her children and she is more often than not described as a single mother; we always ask "where is the father in all this?"

It's not just the news - looking around at our DGC's friends, it seems to be so prevalent now.

Click-bait. I guess I bit!

Kate1949

I've never heard a man tell a woman that her opinion is of no interest.

Have you never been in a meeting where your input was discounted? Only to hear very similar points forwarded by a man and discussed with gusto?

No? Lucky you.

No I wouldn't want a world without men. It's just that some of them need retraining. 😀

Do I remember a two Ronnies sketch of a world run by women?