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If you wonder why we are being overrun with illegal immigrants, why America is hated by Muslim fundamentalists, why we are losing wars with much smaller and weaker adversaries, look no further. It's all because of the feminization of the men of America that has been promoted by the NWO for decades now. The gender the politicians, Hollywood, and the media use as the ideal person has changed from someone who is a strong moral male to a weak and submissive female personality. They portray strong men as ignorant brutish bullies, . .

This is part of their agenda in the takeover of America. A 'mature' adult nowadays is seen as someone who is comfortable talking about their inner conflicts, someone who values personal relationships above goals and morality, someone who isn't afraid to cry. In other words: a mature adult is seen as a woman. This feminization process manifests itself in myriad ways. Consider child discipline. Seventy years ago, doctors agreed that the best way to discipline your child was to punish the little criminal. ("Spare the rod, spoil the child.")

Today, spanking is considered child abuse. You're supposed to talk with your kid. Spanking sends all the wrong messages, we are told, and these attitudes have brought about stupendously horrible consequences. The soaring drug use, crime , and welfare dependency are the result.

This process of femininization manifests itself, though somewhat differently, when you turn on the TV or watch a movie. Throughout the mid-twentieth century, leading men were, as a rule, infallible: think of John Wayne or Ward Cleaver. But no longer. In family comedy, the father figure has metamorphosed from the all-knowing, all-wise Ward Cleaver of Leave it to Beaver to the consistent stupidity of Homer Simpson.

Commercially successful movies now often feature women who are physically aggressive, who dominate or at least upstage the men. In today's cinema, most of the leading women are strong, and most of the leading men are pretty boys.

A transformation of comparable magnitude seems to be under way in the political arena. The feminine way of seeing the world and its problems has becoming the mainstream way. Keeping women voters happy seems to be a high priority for politicians these days, and for good reason, America is now a thoroughly feminized country. In 1992, Bill Clinton won the presidency. Clinton was a communist leaning weak female centered man, and an acknowledged draft evader. George W. Bush has caved in on virtually anything a true conservative cares about to appease the left, and was alleged to have used family influence to obtain a position in the Texas National Guard, in order to avoid service in Vietnam.

Being a feminine man and a draft dodger isn't as bad as it used to be in this new America. To find a masculine president, one has to go back to Ronald Reagan. There was a time that, no matter how flawed the individual was, the vast majority of U.S. presidents, Republican and Democrat, exuded masculinity and manliness. Those days are over. There have been fundamental changes in American culture over the past fifty years, changes that indicate a shift from a male-dominated culture to a feminine and androgynous society. The question is, what's causing this shift?

God's prophet warned that one of the marks of a nation under divine judgment is when "women rule over them." (Isa. 3:12) Today, women must be appeased and catered to. They are the heads of businesses, the heads of churches, and the heads of their homes. In politics, the women's vote is usually the one that turns the election. Women serve on military ships and in military operations. They dictate their children's upbringing (which explains why most of them grow up undisciplined and spoiled, by the way) and have the final word on virtually all family decisions. Such a phenomenon is the sign of a nation in trouble.

Men have abandoned their responsibilities of leadership, and our nation is going down the tubes because of it. In the black community, the vast majority of children are being raised without a father. The white community is not far behind. Furthermore, in those homes where fathers do exist, they are largely detached and provide no real influence. Mom is in charge, and everybody in the household knows it. It was not always this way, however.

There was a time in this nation when rugged men taught their sons the qualities of manhood. Boys grew up learning how to box, how to wrestle, how to play football, etc. Today, America's boys only know how to play girls' games. They have never had their noses bloodied or their butts bruised. "Soccer Moms" have replaced disciplinarian dads. Then again, there was a time when a man's primary interest was not in guzzling a pack of Budweiser and sitting all evening in front of the "boob tube" while ignoring virtually everyone in the house. There was a time when men took their families to church and taught their children the fundamental values of honesty and integrity. Believe it or not, there was a time in America when men took pride in being the spiritual heads of their homes. They actually knew how to balance a checkbook and how to read the Good Book. They were the kind of men that women loved and children respected.

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Different planet GG. Different planet

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Why Johnny can't read, write, jump, or run
INTERVIEW BY ALICE CARY
Do you have a son? Is there an important boy in your life?
If so, Christina Hoff Sommers has an important warning. Oddly enough, it's a lousy time to be a boy in America, she explains during a telephone interview from her home in Maryland. While girls are generally applauded and admired, she says, boys are often feared like the plague.
As she writes in the opening of The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men: "As the new millennium begins, the triumphant victory of our women's soccer team has come to symbolize the spirit of American girls. The defining event for boys is the shooting at Columbine High."
During our talk, Sommers notes the myriad programs that try to boost girls' academic and self-esteem skills, the result of feminists decrying the injustices girls have suffered in classrooms over the years. But Sommers argues that it is actually boys who now lag behind girls, not vice versa.
"In fact," she says, "the average 11th-grade boy writes like an eighth-grade girl. He's three years behind in writing and a year-and-a-half behind in reading."
Yes, she knows that boys are slightly ahead in math and science, as a rule. However, there are lots of programs to help girls (and Sommers makes a point to say she's not criticizing those programs). What angers her, though, is that similar programs to help boys are practically non-existent.
"If anything," she explains, "boys are viewed as the privileged beneficiaries of the patriarchal system, but nothing could be farther from the truth, especially with a low-achieving boy."
Many of today's educational strategies deny the types of experiences that help boys learn. "They love competition, hierarchy, and striving for excellence," Sommers says. "If we take that away, you take away all that's important for boys."
For years, feminists have pointed out the plight of under-achieving, low self-esteem girls, such as those depicted in Carol Gilligan's popular book, In a Different Voice. What's more, Sommers argues that a handful of organizations, including the American Association of University Women and the Wellesley Center for Research on Women, have added to the problem by shaping gender policy in our nation's schools. Sommers, who took academic feminists to task in her 1994 book Who Stole Feminism?, says these groups have promoted misleading and incorrect data, an assertion she probes in her book.
The War Against Boys discusses the problem in detail and offers some solutions. For starters, suggests Sommers, boys need their own watchdog group. Nothing ideological, Sommers warns, but simply people "who like boys and understand them." Members might include the YMCA, the Boy Scouts, Boys' Town, Harvard's Alvin F. Poussaint, and Michael Gurian, author of the insightful book, The Wonder of Boys.


Sommers explains that she would also like to see a "major correction in the schools of education in their offerings on gender education." She recommends a new study be required reading: "Trends in Educational Equity of Girls & Women" by the U.S. Department of Education.
"While it's very honest about the areas in which girls need help," she says, "it's the best account of how boys need help too."
Sommers hopes that when teachers across the country hear the phrase "gender equity," they will stop thinking of Carol Gilligan's ideas, and instead think of The War Against Boys, the Department of Education study, or research by Judith Kleinfeld.
Meanwhile, what can parents of boys do to help? Sommers -- a former professor of philosophy and the mother of a teenage son and an older stepson -- offers several recommendations during our chat:
"Be aware that there are many who do not like boys, who view the natural tendencies of boys to be pathological, a defect to be overcome. I don't think there are many teachers like this, but there are going to be some who have taken seriously what they have read. . . . Be prepared to be an advocate for your son and for all the little boys in the class."
"Be aware that you're going to have to make special efforts in teaching boys reading, writing, handwriting, and organization." These skills do not come to most boys as naturally as they come to most girls, Sommers explains. She adds that it's helpful to make sure teachers include stories and books that feature adventure, heroes, and action, all of which are likely to appeal to boys.
"All parents need to realize that boys can behave in all sorts of ways without being mentally unstable. There's a whole repertoire of wild, normal, little boy behavior. The standard play of little boys is rough and tumble, and women -- mothers and teachers -- have never fully understood it and liked it."
In her book she describes a stunned California mother whose son was punished for running during recess, and nearly suspended for jumping over a bench. "Sad to say," Sommers says, "normal youthful male exuberance is becoming unacceptable in more and more schools."
Sommers has had to go to bat for her own son, who once got in "big" trouble during a school field trip for jumping up and swatting a restaurant awning that the class passed on the street. The author stresses the need for gentlemanly, moral behavior, yet she believes the natural tendencies of little boys must be better understood.
Sommers ends The War Against Boys with a stirring call for action: "We have created a lot of problems, both for ourselves and for our children. Now we must resolutely set about solving them. I am confident we can do that."
"American boys, whose very masculinity turns out to be politically incorrect, badly need our support. If you are an optimist, as I am, you believe that good sense and fair play will prevail. If you are a mother of sons, as I am, you know that one of the more agreeable facts of life is that boys will be boys."
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My feet are placed squarely on the ground. I've the courage (by grace only) to speak of the need for men to take their rightful place.
Be all that you were meant to be.

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Not sure what men were meant to be GG. But I am 100% certain you will tell us all

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These people are dyed in the wool, conspiracy loving black helicopter believers...

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Should I keep trying? Are men really interested?

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I don't think that 'preaching' at people works at all. Just my thoughts though.

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How and why are my postings considered 'preaching'?

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Nice one Trisha.

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. . Young women in college in the US and Canada suffer from an epidemic of depression, eating disorders and even self-mutilation and suicidal thoughts and behavior. Campus health professionals, steeped in the politically correct doctrines of sexual “freedom” and feminist theory, fail even to acknowledge the existence of the real cause.

Dr. Anonymous, who chose to keep her identity secret out of fear of professional reprisal, identifies the damage done to women by the feminist ideology that proposes women are psychologically identical to men and encourages sexual promiscuity – as long as it is made “safe” with a condom.

....“I'm discussing a taboo topic here: the dangers of radical social agendas in my profession… Campus counselling centers are whitewashing the painful consequences of casual sex, STDs and abortion. They are promoting the notion that men and women are the same.”

..Dr. Anonymous writes that the psychological field is still dominated by an irrational prejudice against religious faith that she calls “Theophobia,” that thwarts efforts to relieve women’s suffering.

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Tsunami Aid Money Used for Shari'a
Money sent to the Indonesian province of Aceh to help tsunami survivors is now being used to enforce shari’a law. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

WHEN people around the world sent millions of pounds to help the stricken Indonesian province of Aceh after the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, few could have imagined that their money would end up subsidising the lashing of women in public.

But militant Islamists have since imposed sharia law in Aceh and have cornered Indonesian government funds to organise a moral vigilante force that harasses women and stages frequent displays of humiliation and state-sanctioned violence.

International aid workers and Indonesian women’s organisations are now expressing dismay that the flow of foreign cash for reconstruction has allowed the government to spend scarce money on a new bureaucracy and religious police to enforce puritan laws, such as the compulsory wearing of headscarves.

Some say there are more “sharia police” than regular police on the local government payroll and that many of them are aggressive young men.

“Who are these sharia police?” demanded Nurjannah Ismail, a lecturer at Aceh’s Ar-Raniri University. “They are men who, most of the time, are trying to send the message that their position is higher than women.”

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We have war between the sexes because many have not come into the full awareness of God who made them, male and female, and the honor and grave responsibility given.

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If you wish to then fine but count me out. I'll be over here being imperfect but me

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Christians Must Challenge American Messianic Nationalism:
A Call to the Churches
Ruether, Rosemary Radford
Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology

March 2004

Religious language is always double edged. It is properly used as prophetic critique that calls for repentance. But it can be twisted into a self-sacralizing rhetoric that associates God with human projects of power. The United States has often fallen into this temptation to use religious language as idolatrous messianic nationalism. When this happens it is the duty of the churches to challenge such language and reveal its opposition to the authentic good news of the gospel. In 1934 the German theologians of the Confessing Church disassociated themselves from a German Christianity that identified Christianity with Aryan nationalism. I believe the Americans churches must make a similar critique of American messianic nationalism today.


What is American messianic nationalism? This is an ideology rooted in the belief that the United States of America is uniquely an elect nation chosen by God to impose its way of life on the rest of the world by coercive economic means, and even by military force, if it deems necessary. Nations who pursue other ways of economic development than "free market capitalism" can be regarded as enemies, not only of the United States, but of God. This is particularly the case if they seek to mobilize a counter-block of nations against the global hegemony of the United States.
The ideology that the United States is an elect nation divinely chosen to be a model and mentor to other countries has long been entertained by dominant American culture. During the Cold War the struggle against communism was typically couched as a "war against evil." The conflict between two strategies of economic development, capitalism and communism, was defined as if it were a war against demonic powers in which capitalist countries were the agents of divine goodness.


This language has returned with new force under the administration of George W. Bush in its "war against terrorism." The language of holy war, "crusade" and the apocalyptic conflict between good and evil, God and Satan, are freely used in its war rhetoric, directed first against the Taliban in Afghanistan and then against Saddam Hussein in Iraq. These wars were depicted as if they were episodes in an apocalyptic drama of good against evil, angels of light against the forces of darkness, God's chosen people against God's enemies. This language of apocalyptic warfare assumes an U.S. mission to the rest of the nations of the world. America in general, and President Bush in particular, are depicted as messianic agents chosen by God to combat evil and to establish good; namely American hegemonic power and its economic, cultural and political "way of life" over the rest of the world.


This messianic nationalism was expressed in its most blatant form by General William Boykin, an American military leader charged with the hunt against Osama bin Laden. In a speech to his fellow believers Boykin declared that the United States is an object of hatred by other nations because we are uniquely a "Christian nation." He went on to claim that "our spiritual enemy can only be conquered when we confront them in the name of God." (i.e. their spiritual identity is that of Satan). He said that Muslims worship an idol and not the true God. Moreover God has put George W. Bush in office as this time to carry out a world redemptive mission: "We are an army of God raised up for such a time as this."


In other words, George W. Bush is God's elect messiah put in the White House at this time of final crisis in the conflict between God and Satan to lead God's forces of good against the forces of evil. To defeat U.S. America's enemies and put in place the American "free market" system equals defeating evil and establishing the Reign of God over the earth. Although the Pentagon distanced itself from Boykin's language, they did nothing to counteract it. This language creeps continually into official White House declarations of their identity and role. Neo-conservatives, such as Richard Perle, adopt such language, as in his recent book on "How to win the war against terrorism" which he entitled The End of Evil.


In her recently released "New Pentagon Papers," former military intelligence officer Karen Kwiatkowski, revealed the fanatical atmosphere that had taken over Pentagon policy intelligence in the months before the Iraq war, suppressing any objective information on the Middle East. She writes, "I saw a dead philosophy - Cold War anti-communism and neo-imperialism - walking the corridors of the Pentagon. It wore the clothing of counterterrorism and spoke the language of a holy war between good and evil. The evil was recognized by the leadership to be resident mainly in the Middle East and articulated by Islamic clerics and radicals. But there were other enemies within, anyone who dared voice any skepticism about their grand plans."


This language of apocalyptic warfare and messianic nationalism is enormously dangerous at a time when the peoples of the earth are becoming increasingly divided by aggressive American power. Many see this as impoverishing the earth, disabling authentic democracy, undermining cultural diversity, destabilizing social integrity and aggravating the gap between rich and poor. The Christian churches should be involved in many kinds of alternative development to this dominant system, together with other groups, religious and secular. But the first responsibility of the Church is to rebuke the blatant misuse of its own religious language.


I suggest that this "Americanist" messianic nationalist Christianity needs to be critically analyzed and rejected theologically. This denunciation needs to be communicated to American churches of all denominations as a call to conscience. There are four basic heresies involved in this "Americanist" Christianity. They have to do with the nature of God, the nature of the relation of God to human nations, the nature of evil and how evil is overcome or at least lessened in human affairs. I refer to these as "false theological ideas." By "false" I mean that these theological ideas are both idolatrous, pretending that the American nation is uniquely a representative of God, and also conducive to destructive violence, and hence blasphemous when attributed to the will of God.


1. False Theological Idea One: God chooses one nation above all other nations. In Christian tradition God is a God of all nations. "In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek": (Gal 3:21). Christianity confirmed a development within universalist Judaism that God is the creator of the whole world, loves all peoples and nations equally and chooses no one nation above or to the exclusion of others.


2. False Theological Idea Two: The United States is God's uniquely chosen nation. Since God is a God of all peoples and loves all peoples equally, God cannot be seen as choosing the United States for some unique mission over other peoples of the world. Although the concept of "election" can be seen as a way in which every person, and every cultural and national community, grapples with their responsibilities before God, this idea cannot be translated into an objective positioning of one nation over others.


3. False Theological Idea Three: Evil is socially located in the enemies of the United States In Christian teachings all humans are created in the image of God and all have a potential for good and yet all have sinned and fall short of the will of God. Evil exists particularly in the way in which humans violate their relation to one another. To usurp power and monopolize wealth in one person's or group's hands, depriving other people of the bare means of existence, is the basis of evil on earth. To defend injustice as divinely given is blasphemy, attributing evil to the will of God.


Every person and nation must struggle with how they have helped to construct systems of evil that are impoverishing the earth and the majority of humans and how they have blasphemously sought to defend such evil systems as good and divinely ordained. Although there is undoubtedly responsibility for evils in other peoples and nations, the United States and its citizens must grapple with evil by first asking how they are contributing to it and helping to perpetuate it.


4. False Theological Idea Four: Evil can be conquered by external coercion, ultimately by military force. Local, national and international societies have limited rights to use coercive force in order to constrain abuse of people and the environment within their jurisdictions. The coercive role of government must include those who use power to abuse others, such as paying below living wages and allowing toxic environments that injure health. The proper role of governments is not limited to police functions of restraining outlaws, but includes the use of the sanctions of the law to encourage justice and fair treatment for all.


But it must be clear that such coercive means, whether within or between nations, cannot be construed theologically as "overcoming evil." Evil can only be overcome by conversion, which takes place in the hearts of persons in community. Those who monopolize wealth and power to lord it over, impoverish and abuse others must be changed inwardly to recognize their evil doing. This change is a mystery of divine grace that calls us, empowers us to change and opens us to this call and transformation. Conversion means giving up unjust power and privilege, reconstructing one's relation to others, so that the means of life are justly shared. In Jesus' words to the rich ruler, "sell all that you have and distribute to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven" (Luke 18:22).


Conversion always happens in a social context, not as isolated individuals in no relation to society. Personal conversion is extended in a struggle to change communities. Persuaded by converted mentors, communities recognize that they are using their wealth and power to abuse others and to spiritually impoverish themselves. They decide to change their ways in order to create more just and life giving social relations for all.


Thus, for example, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can never be ended by the endless cycle of Israeli assassination of Palestinian leaders and Palestinian suicide bombers taking revenge by randomly killing Israelis. Although the international community can play a role in defining and encouraging a more just sharing of the land between Israelis and Palestinians, a real break through to a just sharing of the land can only happen as Israelis and Palestinians become converted from enmity toward each other to seeing each other as fellow human beings with whom they wish to live together as neighbors.


Apartheid in South Africa was overcome, not by external coercion, although sanctions may have played a positive role, but ultimately when whites and blacks were converted to one another and determined that they must live together as equal fellow citizens of one national community. Although all "evil" has hardly been overcome in South Africa, the end of apartheid has lessened one aspect of the evil of racist monopolizing of political power by whites. This has laid the basis for new efforts to create a more just sharing of resources between white and blacks.


Conversion is the only way evil is "overcome." Military violence generally worsens evil, imposing one unjust system in place of another. Non-violent coercion and social reforms may constrain social evils. But coercion never actually "overcomes" evil. This only happens when people are converted from enmity and abuse of others to love of one's neighbor as oneself


American Christians need to come together through local, regional and national networks and church bodies to repudiate Americanist Christianity and to call on all American Christians to distance themselves from its false theological claims. Only in this way can we hope, with other Americans, to forge a new national and international policy that will lessen the evil the United States is doing in the world and the enmity that this is causing. Only in this way can Americans hope to reestablish their country as a nation among other nations that, together with other peoples of the world, might actually lessen the evils of social injustice and environmental degradation and create a beginning of a sustainable future for humanity.

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Ruether, Rosemary Radford
Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology

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No, No, no don't retreat. If not you than who, KennyMac?

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I'm guessing YOU GG.

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You could read buteos article though if you wish a flavour of it.

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Isn't it strange that Radford delicately left out that Palestians are being paid to strap on bombs and kill Israeli people?

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Thus, for example, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can never be ended by the endless cycle of Israeli assassination of Palestinian leaders and Palestinian suicide bombers taking revenge by randomly killing Israelis.

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Kenny, how you doing? I am looking to do some volunteer work in Uganda next year. Maybe I will see you there.

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From Radford's article:

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Thus, for example, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can never be ended by the endless cycle of Israeli assassination of Palestinian leaders and Palestinian suicide bombers taking revenge by randomly killing Israelis.

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Point I'm making here is that I'm not taking up this fight because I don't see it as a fight. I am blessed to have some amazing females in my life from child to grandmother, friends and lovers, sisters and mothers and I am thankful for them all. They have my love, gratitude and deep respect. Loving them as best I can is what I'm doing. Fighting doesn't come into it.

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Isn't it strange that Radford delicately left out that Palestians are being paid to strap on bombs and kill Israeli people?

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I thought Catholics are suppose to tell the truth.

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Usha, nothing as far as I know. Having come out of the tradition myself, I was taught to reflect on my life and my sins and in the confessional font - not only show contritness, but to embody it. Does anyone here suppose that is what GG is doing?

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I've been to Palestine and this Common Dream article accurately tells what is happening there. I deplore all the deaths on both sides.

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Many women today want to destroy Western Civilization. Women's values dominate the media and primary and secondary education. Since the 50's these disgruntled femininists want freedom from "male oppressors".

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Originally posted by ftmyersfisherman, exclusive American:

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Many women today want to destroy Western Civilization. Women's values dominate the media and primary and secondary education. Since the 50's these disgruntled femininists want freedom from "male oppressors".

GG, are you one of those women?

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let me guess, are you also blaming this madeup "feminization of america" on birth control pills, just like you blamed them for female fish? get real GG

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(The research of the feminization of male fish in the Washington DC area water and in Michigan appear to be compromised; therefore, I will drop it.)

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1.what was the name of the researcher/professor?

2)please supply impartial SCIENTIFIC links for the MANY studies you mention. im really curious how you are able to magically connect abortion to breast cancer.

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GG, you know what? After seeing how much you glorify maleness and despise womanhood

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I'm truly overwhelmed at how you or others perceive me.

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Yet you come back so that you can feel "overwhelmed" by other's perceptions of 'you'.

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stepnwlf
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Yet you come back so that you can feel "overwhelmed" by other's perceptions of 'you'.


Where is this being discussed?

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"tragic" is the need for a man to "domineer"

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Those who wish to live in oppression are usually too lazy, scared or beaten down to CHOSE for themselves.

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Your insistence that there needs to be a role for sexes is narrow-minded and oppressive to women and men who know themselves better than you and do not subscribe to your views.

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I bet you you don't consider homosexuality as being "natural" too,

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Originally posted by stepnw1f:
Yes GG...my aversion to the topic is your ignorance and I just enjoy punching holes through it. What's yours again? Oh that's right, you are scared and confused of the World around you. The "Feminists" are gonna get ya, GG. They are gonna make you work for a living. LOL....

Also, I'm afraid I am not the brother of AJ.

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...yet I do not notice substantiation of your position?

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Come on, men are constantly portrayed as dumb and knobs in commercials, get a life.

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I love myself
I want you to love me
When I'm feelin' down
I want you above me
I search myself
I want you to find me
I forget myself
I want you to remind me

Chorus:
I don't want anybody else
When I think about you
I touch myself
I don't want anybody else
Oh no, oh no, oh no

You're the one who makes me happy honey
You're the sun who makes me shine
When you're around I'm always laughing
I want to make you mine

I close my eyes
And see you before me
Think I would die
If you were to ignore me
A fool could see
Just how much I adore you
I get down on my knees
I'd do anything for you

Chorus

I love myself
I want you to love me
When I'm feelin' down
I want you above me
I search myself
I want you to find me
I forget myself
I want you to remind me

Chorus

I want you
I don't want anybody else
And when I think about you
I touch myself
Ooh, oooh, oooooh, aaaaaah

Chorus

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if you're not obsessed with your doctrines, dogma,

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I did an exercise a while back linking songs to personalities on this board, yours was the easiest.

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it covers obsession, submission, subjugation, if you're not obsessed with your doctrines, dogma,

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Dwight Eisenhower who said that, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed."

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esus Christ is in Whom I follow. Who is it in whom you follow, douglaslee. You bow and kneel to whom??

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I don't want anybody else
When I think about you
I touch myself
I don't want anybody else
Oh no, oh no, oh no

You're the one who makes me happy honey
You're the sun who makes me shine
When you're around I'm always laughing
I want to make you mine

I close my eyes
And see you before me
Think I would die
If you were to ignore me
A fool could see
Just how much I adore you
I get down on my knees
I'd do anything for you

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which is exactly why this refrain was written for you

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As the Holy Father has written with regard to this text from Genesis, “...woman is another ‘I' in a common humanity. From the very beginning they appear as a 'unity of the two', and this signifies that the original solitude is overcome, the solitude in which man does not find ‘a helper fit for him' (Gn 2:20). Is it only a question here of a ‘helper' in activity, in ‘subduing the earth' (cf. Gn 1:28)? Certainly it is a matter of a life's companion with whom, as a wife, the man can unite himself, becoming with her ‘one flesh' and for this reason leaving ‘his father and his mother'(cf. Gn 2:24)”.6

This vital difference is oriented toward communion and was lived in peace, expressed by their nakedness: “And the man and his wife were both naked, yet they felt no shame” (Gn 2:25). In this way, the human body, marked with the sign of masculinity or femininity, “includes right from the beginning the nuptial attribute, that is, the capacity of expressing love, that love in which the person becomes a gift and – by means of this gift – fulfils the meaning of his being and his existence”.7 Continuing his commentary on these verses of Genesis, the Holy Father writes: “In this peculiarity, the body is the expression of the spirit and is called, in the mystery of creation, to exist in the communion of persons in the image of God”.8
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We are not only body that will one day die, but we also have a soul and a spirit that will live for all eternity either in heaven or in hell.

Where you goin'?