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MareGaea   
21 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / US Polonia 70% for Kaczyński [343]

Quite a few have passports, and they make it a point to vote. That's why Polish politicians come over to the US to campaign...

God Save Poland in that case :)

I know what you mean, they come here in Dubs as well to campaign. There are even Polish posters in a lot of places.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
21 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Oxford Polish bride 'heartbroken' over arrest - accusations of sham marriage [126]

but it does not happen here, nor in many other places

And you know why it doesn't happen where you are? First of all because those girls are probably not as open about it as the Dutch girls generally are and secondly because most other countries have a very hypocrit view and policy towards sex, females that like sex or females that have sex because they want some extra money. But believe you me, they are also where you live and in fact in most places on Earth. Because you don't hear from them, doesn't mean they're not there. They could name themselves a massage parlour, a villa or whatever. The purpose is all the same. You never seen those notes hanging in phone booths? In toilets in pubs and so on? Those small adverts in the newspapers? Guess what these girls offer.

No, that's how it is in reality. I have several family members in the Police who deal with prostitutes on a daily basis, and prostitution hot-spots are not hard to come across, nor is it difficult to ascertain the personal habits of such prostitutes.

Maybe in your neck of the woods and heroin-hookers are usually very desperate yes, but all I wanted to point out is that most prostitutes are not drug-infested. But perhaps you don't notice them that much as they generally don't cause that much trouble as heroin-hookers do.

>^..^<

M-G (these girls are everywhere, even in places where they're officially not, like here in Ireland)
MareGaea   
21 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Oxford Polish bride 'heartbroken' over arrest - accusations of sham marriage [126]

I think you have a bit of distorted view on prostitution as it is. There are plenty of female students who act like prostitutes in their free time in order to finance either their studies or to be able to afford that big car they want. And face it, for a woman this is the easiest way of making money. Some do it because they simply like sex and make out of their hobby their work, so to say.

I have never met or heard of a prostitute who was totally clear and OK with her lifestyle. Drugs are involved most of the time.

In Amsterdam's Red Light District, which is about the biggest and most famous red light district in the world, prostitutes who use drugs are not even allowed. Drugs prostitution you find mostly in the darker sides of town. And all the prostitutes in the Red Light District pay taxes.

A more accurate portrayal is that their lifestyle is so bad already that prostitution can't possibly make it any worse.

No, that's your interpretation of it. Probably infused with religious moral ethics.

So selling marijuana is comparable to being paid to have someones dick jammed repeatedly in your vagina, mouth or anus, having them release semen inside your body at the risk of pregnancy and contracting diseases, and then using the money "earned" to buy cocaine and snort yourself into a coma? Yeah, I see the parallels.

You haven't understood what I was saying, so far is clear now. I will explain once again: I said services that cannot be bought in shops, offices or factories. Services or acts that normally cannot be bought at all. Selling maryjane already implies that it can be bought or sold quite normally. There is a big group of heroine-hookers as we call them, and those are what you're referring to, but the majority of the prostitutes are, at least in NL, otherwise normal girls who just want a bigger car, jewelry, finance their studies or simply like sex. I knw it's hard to comprehend, but it's the modern world.

That sounds more like escorts

Let's above all not forget that escort girls are also prostitutes.

Edit: oh and besides the heroin-hookers ALL prostitutes use condoms, the pill and are being checked by doctors bi-weekly in NL.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
21 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Oxford Polish bride 'heartbroken' over arrest - accusations of sham marriage [126]

Men who simply must **** something can just go on the pull, it's not that difficult.

Of course. You seem to forget that half of the prostitutes, if not the biggest group are doing it simply for the money, to get a better lifestyle. There are drug addicts among them, but most actually do it because the either like sex, want a better life or have it as a main income.

Did you miss the part where I exactly say the same? Or are you just disagreeing with me for the sake of disagreeing with me? And the reference to protitutes was a metaphorical one. The sexual part doesn't have to come into play. They sell sth you cannot buy in stores, offices and normally cannot be bought at all. So in that sense they are comparable to prostitutes, yes.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
21 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / US Polonia 70% for Kaczyński [343]

if someone wants to vote he has to have polish citizenship

That's why the knowledge that 70 per cent would vote for Kaczynski is irrelevant knowledge.

No

Yes they are. Believe me, I've met "Dutch" Americans in the States who had gathered just about all the Dutch stereotype things in their houses to an extend that even the Dutch in the Netherlands do not have. So in that sense, yes, they are more Dutch than the Dutch themselves.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
21 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

fathersforlife.org/pizzey/planned_destruction_of_family.htm

I read only part of the article as I knew where it would head and because it was written terribly. But I did take some time to analyse and dig into your sources and here is what I found and why I think I can dismiss your sources as not being credible.

***
From the same site:

The Marketing of Evil
How 'gay rights' is being sold to America
Exposed: Powerful manipulation techniques behind radical homosexual agenda

Gay Men
Prevalence of homosexuality in men: The ten-percent myth
Gay Men - Suicide and Homosexual Psychopathology- two studies
Gay Nazis

And there are plenty of those on the fathersforlife site. Needless to say we can tell from which side the wind is blowing and also needless to say that feminism would never get a fair chance on reactionairy sites like this. But lemme continue:

They actually state that in the case of Domestic Violence, the women are more violent than men. While I not deny that there are male victims of Domestic Violence, the vast majority of victims is of course women. Let's see what the official website domesticviolence.org says about percentages:

- 1 in 3 American women have been physically or sexually abused by her husband or bf at some point in their lives.
- 30 per cent of all female murders were committed by husband or bf
- 40 to 60 per cent of the men who abuse women, also abuse kids.

domesticviolence.org/common-myths/

Who are the victims according to domesticviolence.org? Let's see:

Although both men and women can be abused, most victims are women. Children in homes where there is domestic violence are more likely to be abused and/or neglected

domesticviolence.org/who-are-the-victims/

Let's see what fathersforlife.org thinks they have to say about the topic:

For example, about the US Violence Against Women Act:

This (article) is an excellent assessment of the evolution and of the impact of the US Violence Against Women Act, a piece of discriminatory legislation that surpasses in absurdity but not in effectiveness anything that the jurists of the Third Reich devised to rationalize the eradication of "sub-humans" and other undesirable "enemies of the state".

fathersforlife.org/fv/family_violence_main_page.htm - (Link 2-a)

Well then, what is so remarkable about the article? Well, this:

VAWA fails to acknowledge that every responsible study shows that women commit about 65% of child abuse, and at least equal violence against men.

dadsnow.org/vawa/vawa2.htm

Hey, that is weird. The official site says that 1 in 3 women have been abused at some point in their life and that 40 to 60 per cent of the perpetrators are men. Hm, this overlaps the 65 per cent dadsnow.org mentions...So, what happens in those overlapping families? Both mom and dad beat eachother's heads in and after that take on their kids together? Does that make sense? Hm, don't think so.

So, now that we've established in what source Erin Pizzey's piece has been used we can now start to understand why it has been used and why it was pulled out of context. Yet again only one dissenting opinion is being presented as proof that the entire feminist-movement is one shambles. And remarkably this is presented to us by the same group that states that women are more than twice as violent as men, call gay ppl evil with a hidden agenda to take over the US and ignores the official figures when it comes to domestic violence.

But besides all that, Erin Pizzey's is too assuming and too self fulfilling prophecy. Pizzey states in her book "Prone for Violence" that most female victims basically are to blame themselves for what happens to them, they are looking for the violence a monster of a guy can provide them. With this remark Pizzey is way off line and she misses the point completely in this case. While indeed some women will subconsciously look for violent partners, the act of violence in itself directed at them is not a favourable one and the fact that she may have no backbone in that respect does NOT justify any violence against either her or her children. Let's ask the official website again:

Abusers often have low self-esteem. They do not take responsibility for their actions. They may even blame the victim for causing the violence. In most cases, men abuse female victims. It is important to remember that women can also be abusers and men can be victims

Hey! They too admit that there are female abusers. But of course the biggest number is, again, men.
domesticviolence.org/who-are-the-abusers - (Link 4)

Whereas fathersforlife.org only states and emphasizes that it's the women who are the abusive ones and men have to suffer from this terrible myth, the official website admits that there are also femal abusers, however, the vast majority is men.

Let's go back to Erin:

In Prone to Violence she writes, according to Wiki:

In her book Prone to Violence (full text available online) Pizzey has propounded the theory that many of the women who took refuge had a personality such that they sought abusive relationships. Pizzey describes such behaviour as akin to addiction.

So far so good. Although this is only fractionally true, let's continue:

She speculates that high levels of hormones and neurochemicals associated with pervasive childhood trauma lead to adults who repeatedly engage in violent altercations with intimate partners despite the physical, emotional, legal and financial costs, in unwitting attempts to simulate the emotional impact of traumatic childhood experiences.

Aha! So it's them darn hormones and neurochemicals again in combi with dad who couldn't keep his hands to himself! So that's already two violent men in this type of woman's life. But let's see what else is there:

The book contains numerous stories of disturbed families alongside a discussion of the reasons why the modern state care-taking agencies are largely ineffective

Of course shelters are ineffective when all these victims of domestic violence are basically nutters who liked to either have sex with dad and be beaten up by him and now that dad is gone, they have grown so fond of it, they just go on a search for the next psycho who will fcuk and beat the crap out of her...Hm. With an extra bonus this time: the children! Who gives a shyte about them? These little boggers should never think they can come between the holy fighting bond she has with her violent psycho guy!

But let's continue as now the part comes in which Erin betrays herself and we can put her laughingly into the trashbin as far as her judgement about Women's movements and feminism is concerned:

According to many webpages, Pizzey has said, or has been quoted as saying: "Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Pizzey

This could come right out of fathersforlife.org! And of course it's in there as it suits their needs. However, for the evaluation of the feminist movement and feminism in general it has no value at all. Erin is dismissed.

Well, I could go on about Georgie Roph and his pseudo-scientific approach (which of cours has only one outcome as it can only have one outcome, if you know what I mean), but I will suffice with just one quote from his work quoted in his "Letter to America" as provided by Zimmy in his second link. Georgie writes:

The domestic abuse industry is saturated in gender bias, as any examination of the literature it produces will show any reasonable person. From the thousands of so-called "studies" carried out by special interest groups, to the leaflets and advertising surrounding the abuse phenomenon, it is obvious that society has blinkers on when it comes to thinking about who perpetrates the abuse. The questions are, one, why has this bias come about and, second, who are the victims of it?

Answering the second question first the answer is simple: Men!

If the answer to the second question is so simple, well, what would the answer be to the first question? Of course: the women's movements to protect the victims:

First of all the domestic abuse industry is run almost entirely by women. Many of these women are themselves victims of abuse or have worked closely with female victims of abuse. This, I submit, tends to give these women a skewed and deeply prejudicial view of men. At their most harmless these views will be shaped by the experiences these women have suffered and make them tend to be suspicious of anything men may do or say about abuse. At the worst, these views may lead to a pathological hatred of men and a deep desire for revenge. I suggest that both of these views are common within the abuse industry today. What is more, I suggest that these are the reasons why the female dominated abuse industry is almost totally unable to even countenance that women can be abusive also, irrespective of the evidence we might show them to prove otherwise.

dvmen.org/dv-23.htm

I for one don't believe in the proof of individuals like Georgie, who rap about the abuse-industry and set the tone for what the outcome will be; I'd rather rely on state- and government figures as they tend to be as correct as pssbl as the govt doesn't have an agenda to uphold on these numbers. Georgie's, Erin's and fatherforlife's agenda is obvious: trying to divert as much of the attention away fromt he real perpetrators. Anyway, this should take care of the sources, and how to look at the articles given.

Once you come up with truly neutral and accurate sources on this topic I will have a look at them again.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
21 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / US Polonia 70% for Kaczyński [343]

Our Polonia appears to be more patriotic, traditon-bound and staunchly anti-Communist than voters in Poladn itslef.

Isn't that the case with any ppl of any nationality that lives in the US or in Canada? Aren't the Dutch who live there more Dutch than the Dutch themselves? And the Germans, Irish, Italian...? I think it's a general phenomena.

And you know why that is? First, because America doesn't have a cultural heritage of herself and second, it's much safer to oppose changes when there is 5000 km of water between you and the places where those changes have to happen. You don't need to discuss it with anybody and don't run any risk. Thirdly it's the general ignorance Americans display when it concerns matters of Europe. They are Americans, don't forget that. Even though they may have Polish, Dutch, German, Irish or Italian anchestors, they're still full blooded 100 per cent Americans.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
21 Jun 2010
History / Israeli wants to wipe Poland off the map! [198]

I don't think EVEN the nazis had one of these on their controlposts

I'm fairly sure the Nazis didn't have those posts. It's technology from the 21st Century, you know.

My my my, aren't we all so concerned about those poor Palestinians who lie dying of hunger in the streets of Gaza city...Who get bombarded all the freaking time...If you guys are all so concerned about the fate of the Gaza Strip, why don't you go over there and actually help them instead of "supporting" them from behind your computer?

Sorry, but I get a bit cynical from this hypocrit charade.

>^..^<

M-G (grumpy)
MareGaea   
21 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Oxford Polish bride 'heartbroken' over arrest - accusations of sham marriage [126]

the role of cats in the equation

Didn't you know that in fact, cats rule the world but let us believe we do? :)

Anyhow, it's not a new phenomena. In the years immediately after the fall of the Iron Curtain there were plenty of ppl in NL and elsewhere who bought a marriage, the so-called Polish- and Russian brides. There were even angencies to arrange for those "true-love" marriages. Single and rich old farmers from the North of NL paid about 10.000 guilders (app. 4500-5000 Euros) to get married to a Polish or Russian girl not even half their age. It was disgusting. Of course the only purpose of these marriages was for the girls to get residency in NL as one documentary showed on Dutch TV: they followed one of them guys who bought a Polish bride and saw her only twice in total. After they were married she was the entire time with her family and after 2 years, the legal period you have to be married to a Dutch in order to become a Dutch citizen back then, she of course filed for a divorce. It was so obvious.

Other way around happened also: there were agencies offering Dutch men about the same amount if they would marry a Polish or Russian girl. I have one vague acquaintance who did this. He saw the girl only once in real life. He received the money and after 2 years they got a divorce.

In order to prevent such practices Dutch lawmakers then changed the law so that in case of marriages between a Dutch and 3rd Worlder or Eastern European (before the EU) you know have to be together for at least 5 years (on the same address, which will be checked), you have to report bi-weekly (could be monthly, not sure about that) to some office and if you fail to do so, the bride or groom will get no citizenship.

So, it's nothing new. I'm actually surprised they still do this after twenty years.

Matowy

I tend to agree partly with Shelley. If there were no prostitutes, there would've been a lot more rapes. Some men have such sexual urges that they have to be fulfilled and I think it's a good idea that they lay down some money and have them ridden, instead of raping an innocent woman in order to do the same. What these Polish- and Russian brides do is to a certain extend comparable to what prostitutes do. They do it only to get better and they satisfy a need in exchange for money.

>^..^<

M-G (sick)
MareGaea   
21 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Missing Polish woman found murdered in Chesterton, UK [27]

without evidence

How do you know that? If they arrested him, surely there must be some link between him and the victim. They're not just go arrest ppl ad random, you know. The article doesn't mention any evidence indeed, but it also doesn't mention that they DON'T have evidence. So we don't know.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
20 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

but so did I.

Of course you do. But I didn't know that the financial part of the education system in NL has changed so much as I thought that education was a basic right. It's an outrage that you didn't get a chance to pursue a better education.

Have to say that it's mainly due to my mom that I was able to pursue my education; as I've told you before my teacher in 6th class didn't like me, probably because I was smarter than he was, and advised my parents that LBO would only be pssbl for me and then with the greatest of difficulties, even though I had a full score in CITO a score which I only shared with one girl in my district. My mom knew of this and ignored the advise and put me in the highest pssble bridge-grade as according to her, it was easier to go down a step than to go up one level. And I did well. Hope you get your chance in due time, AJ.

>^..^<

M-G (supports AJ's fight for justice)
MareGaea   
20 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

You sound as if it's 1970. First, if women really wanted "equal jobs" than half of all oil rig workers, long-haul truckers, auto repair, refuse workers, fishermen, hazmat workers, etc, etc, would be women. Fact is, women gravitate to jobs which don't involve dirty and dangerous work. Don't insult yourself by pointing out exceptions which only prove the point.

For a person who claims to be nearly as smart as Oppenheimer (you know, the guy who invented the atombomb) you leave out THE thing which makes this argument futile:

-physical difference: women simply CANNOT perform all work men can do but in all fields where they can, they will and actually are doing it. You just so conveniently forget that.

1/men are paid more for doing the dangerous work (men make up 93% of all job related deaths because of the kind of jobs men do - pay is higher for such work)

If this were true, how then do you explain that a woman gets less than a man at an office job?

2 women take more time off from work because of illnesses and because of taking care of kids thus losing years of seniority.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080204212846.htm

Women take almost 50% more short term sick leave than men, finds research published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. But they don't take more long term sick leave, the findings show.

So I guess that's a myth too as it levels out.

It should be obvious that I've stated the exact opposite, but than, you need an IQ above 70 to understand that. Amazing.

Just some random quotes of a person who claims to have an IQ of 158:

Aren't women who don't want to 'pay their fair share' the obvious ones who are obsessed with money! You seem to have it backwards (again).

Lol. Seems that my "crap" is nectar of the gods to the women in my social strata, a sort of elixir.

When you're in Chicago you can pay me at my 15th floor condo overlooking the beach.

Wow, a superhigh IQ, a condo in the hottest place of Chicago, probably the fastest car in the world, a very important job...Wow and still single by choice....HAHAHAHAHAHA

These are particularly funny:

C'mon now, you ladies know better by now than to believe that any woman could ever take advantage of me in any way, shape or form. Of course, to some women, that's the thrill of the chase.

and a surprising number show romantic interest. These are the women who are secure enough to accept a real man and not what passes for one.

No wonder you're single. Nobody can keep up with your ego. And so it doesn't surprise me at all. But keep telling yourself that it's by choice as you probably are the only one to believe it anyway. What also wouldn't surprise me is that you're in fact would be some poor sod living in a poor neighbourhood of some urban Chicago or wherever, dreaming up an image of how you would like to be. Unfortunately nobody buys that.

it's really hard to disagree with what he just said.

No it's not that hard to disagree with it as he leaves out stuff and ignores other facts. In fact, I just did :)

>^..^<

M-G (bye Zimmy)
MareGaea   
20 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

Now, why I say there's no such thing as equal opportunity: You actually have to pay VWO, Gymnasium or Atheneum out of your OWN pockets if you wish to undo your lack of qualifications, because the small grant you might recieve for VWO doesn't cover the costs at all.

Hm, in my time you'd pay a yearly contribution and so called book money. I can't remember what it was back in the days, but the Gymnasium I went to was pretty lenient towards parents who could not afford the money by letting them pay in terms. All this based on your CITO test of course. Maybe this has changed somewhere along the line, but in my time it was like that.

>^..^<

M-G (pass it on)
MareGaea   
20 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

chewed you up and spit you out so I don't blame you for quitting your losing argument.
I do blame you however, for being a pretending elitist and a phony. At any rate I accept your capitulation.

Keep on dreaming. You have said nothing that I didn't say and only showed you knew shyte about what I was saying. And besides, you have nowhere proved me wrong. Bye Zimmy.

By the way, my IQ is 158

LOL that doesn't show anywhere.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
20 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

We are talking about a nation which voted Cicciolina for the parlament.

Common stance among Dutch historians is that "the Italian" does not exist. It's all a mixture of particularism and when you ask an Italian where he is from, he most likely will tell you first the name of the city or area where he is from and after that Italy. It's also the country they want to split up in Padania (Northern Italy) and the South of Italy as two seperate nations. So in that respect it's not that strange that Berlusconi is president there.

>^..^<

M-G (divide and conquer)
MareGaea   
20 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

Just look at the elections?

Yeah, but that is just because ppl are in the wrong assumption that right wing will take care of the working class, while in fact they have never done so.

If your parents can't afford college when you're younger, and if you can't afford college later on in life, simply because minimum wage has been kept low, unlike the rest of salary scales, then you're not as free to pursuit your ambitions as you may think, regardless of how smart you are.

In the US it may work like that, but in NL we have good facilities for ppl who cannot afford to study. My parents, for example, are not rich at all, yet I could go to university thanks to a scholarship from the govt. I do agree with you though on the point that it's not fair that rich kids have a better start in life after college because they don't start out with a debt. But hey, you might as well go against the beautiful ppl as life is so much easier for them. It's us ourselves who keep things the way they are. You can try to start a revolution and everybody in word will agree to it, but when the push comes to the shove, nobody will join you. We all just like to complain about these things, but it seems nobody wants to actively change them. We all expect "the other guy/girl" to do this and in the end nothing happens. You know that yourself.

Well, the educated ones are in charge are they not? I guess you need to adjust your theory about smart people?

Like I said in an earlier posting, being intelligent or smart is no deterrant for primitive or instinctive thinking. Deep down inside we're still primitive cavemen. Not all of us, but most of us.

And I do agree that Berlusconi is an uneducated moron and should leave the stage asap.

Have a nice day M-G.

You too.

>^..^<

M-G (is probably not going to watch a game today as he is a bit worried about his throat)
MareGaea   
20 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

I don't know, but what Allison said made me wonder. (I mean, being a woman, she must know something I don't?) Some things do annoy me if I look at all the imagery in the media these days, every guy has a six-pack, every guy is succesful, every guy drives a big fat car and wears a three piece suit, and you're a loser when you're working class.

We already have sth to deal with that. It's called socialism :)

Wrong, because many men are kept small by other men aswell. Homeless people? Mostly men. War casualties? Mostly men. Working class? Work until you're 67, and we don't care that your work is ten times heavier than any office job we do. We don't want you to enjoy your old days, and we hope you die so we keep your funds.

But what has this to do with equal opportunities? The point of feminism is simply that women who are just as intelligent or even smarter than some men, should get the same opportunity in work and in life. It has nothing to do with the fact that not so smart ppl (or ppl who didn't want to go to school or were too lazy to learn) don't get a fat job. Every man in society is free to pursuit his ambitions and if you don't then that is fine, but don't blame it on the system afterwards when you find out that you will have to live on the edge of minimality for the rest of your life. And war casualties are simply the product of the aforementioned simple patterns of thinking.

A 73 year old Berlusconi goes through hundreds of 18 year old girls, but let all those young working class guys shut up and forget about a girlfriend, let them work for us and let them die on the job. Or even better; Get immigrants to do the work for them, make them completely redundant and call them useless and lazy!

You're just jealous :) I don't think you would complain if you were to be in his position. Don't forget he didn't get his position "just like that", eh?

>^..^<

M-G (equal opportunities, but you must be willing to do sth for it!)
MareGaea   
20 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

Mennonites, oh sorry, that's sth different as I don't think the Amish have ever heard of feminism :)

But on a serious note: why would we want to have meninism? Men already have all the (basic-) rights given to themselves, there is no need to fight for equal rights for them.

>^..^<

M-G (just thinks that everybody is equal, should have the same opportunities and so on)
MareGaea   
20 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

it is simply an effort to dominate, humiliate, and make women look better than men.

The third wave of feminism that started in the 90's is the only one that is going right now. Powerfeminism has nothing to do with humiliating men whatsoever. What does a demanding of equal jobs and equal payment have to do with humiliating men?

I think it could very well be called "reverse sexism" because it is trying to make men look like the weaker sex.

So you don't want a good job, make a decent living?

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
20 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

Feminists started out with wonderful intentions - to give women freedom of choice and equal rights - but at some point it turned into some sort of bizarre mission to prove that women can do everything better than men, by acting like men!

Hm, perhaps you know a different kind of feminism than I do. The feminism when I was young viewed all men as potential rapists. Later on this gradually winded down and nowadays prominent feminists like Germaine Greer and Susan Sontag have publicly stated to be embarrassed by such statements. The average feminist doesn't want to act or be like a man. The statement that any woman can do what any man can do must not be seen as a statement that they want to be like a man, but merely as a statement against a male-dominated world. And it's still a male dominated world. For example, have you got any idea how many female managers there are in opposite of male managers? I don't know the exact number, but it's way too few. There are plenty of intelligent women out there who could make a great manager, yet they don't get a chance. And it's in this light statements like that should be seen. The rough edge has long gone, the policies have changed, but the msg remains the same as there is still need for that msg, obviously.

Please explain how.

here:

If you don't like men that think women should be chained to the kitchen sink, then don't involve yourself with those kinds of men.

Guys who think like that have obviously a problem and it's THAT way of thinking that needs to be changed, not the women's in that regard. Women could object to this way of thinking, but given the fact that for men who think like that the step to verbal and even worse abuse is easily made, this is not an option. The problem is the MEN who think that way, not the woman who gets involved as she most of the times only finds out later that the man she loves thinks like that. By advising women not to get involved with these men a point is missed, or actually 2 points are missed.

I do not feel the need to compete with men to validate my own importance as a person.

You don't have to. Nobody of the feminists says you have to. It's about equality and the right to have access to the same things as men have reserved for themselves.

i was trying to point out that women can be equal in their own right, without having to try and be a man.

Oh, I got that point, but you see my point too? I have nothing against a woman who wants to stay at home and nurture her kids and wants to be a slave to a man who thinks a woman's only right is the kitchen sink, but as there are plenty of smart and sometimes well educated women out there it would be a waste to have them not fill up places as a competent representative whereas by staying home these places run the risk of being filled up by either less competent men or less competent women.

Edit: even Simone de Beauvoir later admitted she was a bit harsh in her opinions and also admitted she only wrote them down to impress Sartre.

Edit 2: you only have to look in the shelters for mistreaded women to know that the step I earlier mentioned is very real and that there is definitively sth terribly wrong with guys who think like that.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)

PS, surely you know that it's thanks to the feminists and suffragettes that women can actually go to college nowadays? And surely you know that feminism has, in spite of what opponents have said, NOT lead to a destabilisation of the family as cornerpiece of society? Au contraire, it's thanks to feminism that a lot of fathers actively are involved in raising children. Before the 70's it was unthinkable that men were pushing a buggy. Nowadays it's generally accepted. Right to vote, to work, be generally equal to men (which women truly are in my opinion) and so on...All thanks to feminism. Disregarding feminism would be like biting the hand that has fed you.

Note: I don't know where you live, but if it's in Poland, I can understand that feminists still have that radical element. Poland is a very, very conservative society and when changes need to be implemented in such a society it will be very radical, confrontational at first. Later on it will subside and take its place within that society, after the changes have been made.

>^..^<

M-G (knew a lot of feminists when he was a student and they weren't rabiate manhaters)
MareGaea   
20 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

what are primitive patterns of thinking?

Grmbl, he has a bigger garden than I have, must have his garden. Will take his garden after I beat him up. (fill in anything for "garden").

Generally the patterns of thinking that start wars.

>^..^<

M-G (those are primitive patterns of thinking)
MareGaea   
19 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

Dutchie only insults herself, besides, my comments are retorts to initial insults.

Zimmy, you're not smart enough to talk with me. Pls don't reply to my posts again. Thanks and bye Zimmy.

Maybe that's because feminism has become a joke. Feminism used to be about women campaigning for equal rights to make their own choices in life, but somehow that mutated into the ridiculous concept that women need to BE men.

You seem to forget that every movement that seeks his place in society always starts off with extremes, then mildens it's viewpoint and eventually ends up where they want to be. The feminisim you talk about is from about 30 years or more ago. It's not like that anymore.

Feminists say they are fighting for freedom of choice, then they ridicule women that CHOOSE to stay at home and raise a family. They are hypocrites and akin to the "sexist chauvinist pigs" they say they're standing up against, with their small minded thinking.

See my above comment. You don't like feminism, do you? Did you know you just confirmed all the male chauvinist pig's viewpoints with this? Are you a woman indeed? If so, why do you talk against your own like this? You are equal to men, men are no more nor less than you are. Yet you confirm those viewpoints. Perhaps because...yeah, why, actually?

>^..^<

M-G (feels truly sorry for Zimmy with his futile intelligence)
MareGaea   
19 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Brit Polonia fighting anti-Polish stereotypes [46]

Prove me being anisemite is something wrong.

WW2, KZ, Holocaust. Those were the products of anti semitism. So you're proud of these events?

>^..^<

M-G (need I say more?)
MareGaea   
19 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Brit Polonia fighting anti-Polish stereotypes [46]

Some of them are, some of them are not. Some of the Poles I met are open and friendly ppl, while some of them have to twist and turn themselves in several directions once they find out that they don't get a response to their remarks about black ppl.

What I did notice though, that me being half-Jewish is suddenly being mentioned, not only in a negative way, but it's been mentioned a lot of times since I know Polish ppl. While before it was never mentioned, not as an issue, simply not at all. I always thought it was strange to hear remarks like: "oh, so you're a Jew?" instead of "oh, so you're from Goolland?".

>^..^<

M-G (early)
MareGaea   
19 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

The "only difference"? Our brain is the whole ballgame and a nice piece of evolution it has been to get us to this point

Are you really such an idiot or are you just pretending to be an idiot? It's the only thing that makes us different from all the other animals. We cannot run fast, we don't see very well, we can't hear that good, our sense of smell is really below all measures. Given the weak creatures that we are, nature needed to invent sth that made us different, so it came up with a brain. In hindsight nature probably realises this mistake, hence its yearly attempts to kill substantial parts of us in form of flue epedemics and so on.

The arts, music, etc, make life liveable. Not many of us would want to bring children into the world without these things as well as luxuries. But my point with these almost god-like qualities which include virtues is that they separate us from all other species thus making us special. Of course many lefties don't think so and believe a crab is equal to a human being. Your simple definition regarding procreation at its base level suggests that you are one of those.

We're nothing but animals that can think and everything you have come up with so far just confirms what I have been saying that males make up a lot of things just to distract themselves from the simple and basic fact that they are only there to inseminate the female of the species (at least as a mammal). We're not special. We like to think we're special, because it is ourselves that have made up this idea and we're (ah well, at least you are) so stupid to believe ourselves. We create our own rules and live by it and make the mistake to think that nature thinks the same way. Newsflash: it doesn't. Our brain can think up the most beautiful things, but it also can create war and destruction.

And I'd rather be a leftist progressive person than a right wing bigot like you, who's mega male ego cannot cope with the idea that males are basically only there for procreation. Well, reading your posts so far, it doesn't surprise me at all. Like I said before, you don't seem to understand me and this makes you defensive. But that is typical for right wingers: they are generally unpleasant persons who have not learned to think for themselves and are are mightily stuck up with prejudices and don't believe in any form of progress.

At least we agree on that and indeed, that's essentially been my point. There are a lot of new problems due to the feminization of western cultures which include single parent families, anti-male bias, and weak economies. Feminism is a cultural-marxist concept that is designed to dismantle the fabric of Western society. So far, it's been very successful.

This confirms my suspicion about you. Pls don't react to this topic anymore, as you only write from your male ego.

>^..^<

M-G (so sorry your male ego gets hurt a little. Don't start crying now, you hear?)
MareGaea   
18 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

Our brain is the only thing that differs us from the rest of the animals. We are not fast, even the slowest animal is faster than us. It's an experiment of nature and as it turns out an experiment gone wrong. Normally nature would have killed us off many years ago as we are a successful species with an overpopulation that is way too high for Earth, but we somehow outsmart nature every year with flue vaccins, for example. We are a species, just like any other species on this Earth and our only difference with other animals is that we have a huge brain. But not the biggest, it seems. Other main difference with other animals is that we can adjust our surroundings to our needs, instead of adapting ourselves to our surroundings.

You're not bright enough to see the contradiction in your above comment - are you?

No matter how you THINK you have found a contradiction, you haven't. Wars are only there because we're still in the possession of primitive patterns of thinking. All the rest is decoration, nice and beautiful, but not essential. You still haven't explained convincingly how you think that arts, literature and music can and have contributed to the continuation of the species. But I guess you can't as you're not such a sharp tool in the shed.

Gee, if a simple explanation of evolution already hurts your ego, then I really feel sorry for you. Stop thinking with your ego and start thinking in normal logical reasoning.

>^..^<

M-G (can't believe that I'm explaining it again)
MareGaea   
18 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

Ok, I'm not gonna explain it any more. I've did so a few times and apparently only a handful seem to understand what I'm saying. Just gonna drink one or two bloody maries tonight and off to bed for tomorrow there is a big match.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus - literally this time)
MareGaea   
18 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

right wing

Just by saying that you haven't understood. I am far from right wing.

I dare anybody to prove me wrong on my statements and explain exactly to me how art, poetry etc contributes to the physical evoluton of a species like Homo Sapiens. And in the process, clarify also how poetry physically inseminates the female of the species. The fact that there are still wars on this planet, that there is still hatred, that there is still blood revenge, still murder, still violence, proves that even though we think we have progressed, we're still deep down inside that primitive caveman and therefore men are only needed for continuation of the species and the rest is arteficial.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)