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[DeepEnigma]

Some very foolish smoothbrains think that men start wars for fun, to express their toxic masculinity or some such. They do not understand people, either at the individual or societal level. Wars are not fought for fun — they are fought to establish dominance and hierarchies at the societal level. Not all wars are legitimate. Some are started by big fish solely to take resources from small fish. I don’t approve of this kind of war, but it is still being done for the greater good of the society, albeit at the expense of the other.

War in general has been a necessity throughout our entire evolutionary history. To think otherwise requires one to think that current_year humans are some kind of special being completely detached, both in terms of psychology and social structures, from our ancestors. This couldn’t be more wrong. Wartime is dormant, not extinct, and we need to be ready to re-establish societal dominance in the near future due to the China problem (thanks Bill Clinton). Hopefully it can be done first through economic means, but if Hillary were president instead of Trump I guarantee it would’ve been straight to war.

If she were president, we would have been at war with someone (Iran, maybe), while selling out more and more of our lifeblood to China. Just as her husband and all establishment players have done this whole time.

Their financial empires are enriched by this, while the working class and below suffer for it. In both countries.

 

[-Minsc-]

I'm a simple man. The penis goes in the vagina. That's enough to get me through.

In other news, the ads are telling me to restructure my debt.

 

[haxan7]

I'm a simple man. The penis goes in the vagina. That's enough to get me through.

In other news, the ads are telling me to restructure my debt.

Are you open to at least occasional butt stuff?

 

[Papa]

Are you open to at least occasional butt stuff?

Occasional is for cum chumps. All or nothing.

 

[Starlight Lotice]

I could get my penis out if you want...but you might cry at the comparison to another assumed Male.

 

[Elektro Demon]

Since we can't decide who or what we're attracted to and it's not a choice, wouldn't it be wrong to assume we're straight or queer or something else?

How do I know that I'm only straight? Possibly I just haven't encountered the other type of being that I'm sexually attracted to. Kind if like agnosticism for perverts.

It's actually very easy. Try watching gay porn, and if you don't get a stiffy, then you know you're straight. If you get a half chub, you're probably bisexual.

 

[RAÏSanÏa]

Humans are soft and squishy by default. Women and children are the baseline. The transition from boyhood to manhood involves at least partial dehumanization because it requires one to give up the benefits of being a woman or child and taking on a willingness to self-sacrifice for the greater good. This has been the male role throughout all of history across every successful society (the ones that stray from this fail). Sometimes that self-sacrifice involves fighting on a battlefield to play the protector role. For a pop culture example, consider the Unsullied from Game of Thrones. Extreme masculine dehumanization breeds a ruthless army with no fear for the self.

The rite of passage to manhood can also be humanizing. Like Balian and the knight's oath in Kingdom of Heaven. Both rather romanticized examples though.

Putting women and children together as baseline appears to oversimplify.

Gender benefits(real not perceived) come with commitments and are usually dispensed by family & friends not some privilege in society. Professions in modern Western society are generally stratified based on more than simple gender roles due to many factors, such as education and character suitability, which are acquired and understood by the individual, not forced on them by what some think society's expectations of them should be based on sex and gender. Still, not everyone can be a male stripper even with the right education/gender and industries require regulation.

Where gendered roles developed from and what purpose they served can be valuable to consider in relation to how they influence one's conscious behavior. Finding and refining how best to conduct oneself with willfulness and dignity in relation to the 'physical vehicle'(body) in a civil society seems a responsibility of adulthood that requires humanization to best integrate into and enrich community.

 

[Amory]

UMMMMMMMMMMM

 

[Halo is Back]

Call yourself what you want just don’t expect me to change my perception

 

[Papa]

The rite of passage to manhood can also be humanizing. Like Balian and the knight's oath in Kingdom of Heaven. Both rather romanticized examples though.

Putting women and children together as baseline appears to oversimplify.

Gender benefits(real not perceived) come with commitments and are usually dispensed by family & friends not some privilege in society. Professions in modern Western society are generally stratified based on more than simple gender roles due to many factors, such as education and character suitability, which are acquired and understood by the individual, not forced on them by what some think society's expectations of them should be based on sex and gender. Still, not everyone can be a male stripper even with the right education/gender and industries require regulation.

Where gendered roles developed from and what purpose they served can be valuable to consider in relation to how they influence one's conscious behavior. Finding and refining how best to conduct oneself with willfulness and dignity in relation to the 'physical vehicle'(body) in a civil society seems a responsibility of adulthood that requires humanization to best integrate into and enrich community.

You seem to be arguing based on the intersectional definition of dehumanization whereas I established my own in the earlier post. I don’t think we are speaking in comparable terms.