Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Michelle Obama Shames Women - Offers Them Nothing" video.
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You obviously haven't seen as many married couples in operation as I have. It's WAY more 50-50 than you think! Women have forgotten their half of the contract made with men long ago, for the survival and procreation of the species. A lot of the rules that women don't like were put in place to drive us men to be stupid-hard-workin' and stupid-brave on their woman's behalf. I see it in couples, all the time, where each gives just a little more than they have to, and they're both very pleased with the whole arrangement.
For instance, she drives on dirt roads one day, and the next she has to work, so her husband washes her car, because he knows she doesn't like gettin' done-up for work and showing up in a mud-covered vehicle. Not something she asked. Just something he knows she would appreciate.
She takes the trouble to start up an herb garden, and their meals are seasoned from the ground beside the house. He knows just what she wants at the store and he gets it on his way home. Or vice versa. Things are becoming more fluid, and that's OK. People are so uptight.
I'm seeing, now, where divorced couples are doing 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off, too, which is pretty cool schedule to be on. You're with your kid, 24/7 for two weeks and then you're off working for 2 weeks, while the kid(s) stay with the other partner. You get a lot more quality time with your kids when you're OFF for 2 weeks straight. You start itchin' to be out after 2 weeks. Then you start missin' 'em after 2 weeks.
It depends on your perspective. Did the bad guy just kill the good guy and rape the girl, or did the girl trick 2 men into fighting to the death over her, so she could keep the better fighter, because she DGAF about either one, but wants the bad-ass in her bed, and a tougher baby in her belly?
I mean, you can read Shogun and think that it's all about male dominance, but Mariko went to bed with Richard Chamberlain (quite the heartthrob in USA at the time), and decided the war for the good guys. She was as good a fighter as any man, but in a 1-on-1, she'd eventually tire out, and was as good a swordsman as probably 80% of the Samurai of her time. She was the most accomplished and well-rounded character, save Toranaga (Ieyasu Tokugawa), with the purest of motives. Master of 4 or 5 languages, renowned poet. People say there aren't enough female leads, but the Mariko character was THE hero of the book.
In between all the male strutting, Mariko could get close to ANYbody, because of her pedigree and womanhood. This made her a deadly assassin. She had the greatest warrior/general in the country wrapped around her little finger. And she cucked him to sleep with Blackthorne (the Chamberlain character in the Hollywood series). And stayed his hand when he would've slain the adulterous sailor.
And the fact remains, that until buff females start a new generation of bigger, tougher women, anything athletic is going to be male-dominated by genetics. And until crazy men start implanting wombs in themselves, none of us are gonna be carrying a baby inside of us. Rape of a man is an awful thing, but a rapist planting his child inside a woman by force is possibly the cruelest crime of all. One woman described a fetus as a form of parasite that you choose to feed or not kill, as it is inside of your body.
Kind of a weird way of looking at it, but as long as that baby's inside of her, I'm not sure you can say society has any say. I think there's a STRONG cultural bias against seeing a pregnant woman smoke or drink or do drugs. Society only recognizes citizens. And babies, so far, only issue from biological women. And as long as we're on the Japanese theme, I don't think the Japanese during "Shogun"s period gave a baby a name for something like 5 or 9 days, while the decision was being made whether to keep the child. If it had serious issues, they may or may not choose to keep it, often depending on how badly the father thought he needed a male heir. Girls were fine, as they could be married to other <i>daimyo</i>s. Girls got trained just like the boys, but separately. Seems like the women are subservient, but their sons would inherit their husband's estates, so all kids were good. But a man still needed a male heir.
I'm not arguing for medieval Japanese ways of doing things, although they were very clean, very good with burns, drank tea, and slept under mosquito nets, so they were well-adapted to the conditions of their day. Their only flaw was they didn't make silk like the Chinese, and they needed silk. So a lot of gold from Japan to China for silk for a very long time.
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