Everything you said is fine. You have some good points but it still doesn't say why we need women in the forum at all. Again I'm not against women joining per se. But if they just repeat shaming language, what's constructive about that? We get shaming language all the time in the real world already!publicduende wrote:See, this is the common misconception many of you entertain here. Women or males, young or old, you only seem to be happy when somebody who thinks like you joins the conversation. Then it's no longer a debate. It becomes a tiring choir of people repeating the same concepts like mantras, moaning about the same things, giving pats on each other's backs and providing very little constructive input.shiryu400 wrote:As I mentioned before, AW who come here just repeat that same old shaming language. Ultimately, there are very FEW women who can truly see things our way. So WHY the fixation on having them here? I mean who cares about AW!?
EntrepreneutNet focused the thread on women, but I guess things could be generalised to men who don't necessarily share the same ideas on women, Western or else, society, and life. Some of the "nuttier" (to use a euphemism) members like to stick a "mangina" label on anything that moves and doesn't look, speaks and smells like them. Well that's not acceptable in a debate. Peter Andrew Nolan mentioned Voltaire in one of these recent posts. He probably forgot the other thing Voltaire said: "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it".
Honestly, if it weren't for a small number of answers on practical expat topics - moving, living and dating in a foreign country - courtesy of the few who have been or still are (happier) abroad, what else would this forum have to offer in terms of constructive debate? Like this, HA is basically just another expat exchange forum with an emphasis on casual dating (at best) and whoremongering (at worst), and with a majority of posts now being rants about the American/Canadian/Australian/Western/world women being evil bitches, infantile statements of the "looks being everything" and the "bwaah she's dating him, why not ME" type, topped by the usual salad bag of Illuminati and doomsday conspiracies. Even PUA forums, in all their puerile mythology, sound more constructive than this - at least those guys are actually trying to date ladies, and whether or not they manage to do it, they actually learn to get fitter and be generally more confident about themselves in the process.
We have certain members indefinitely going on about women not being able to love, reason, talk decently, live decently. Women are being compared to animals, objects, only worth our pity and perhaps a few dirty thoughts. The blogosphere and mainstream press are scanned for every clue that may point to feminists ruling the world, women being inferior bitches and the men's cause being forever lost to the global conspiracy against masculinity. WTF guys!
You know what I think? I think what's happening is, the forum is being taken over by a small number of people with far more time to post than real intention to walk out of the mental prison they have created for themselves. And how could they in the first place, if they don't even realise the sorry mental state they're in? They mistake onboarding more paranoias, more memes, more excuses for hatred as a step forward in their "truth seeking" journey. They grow more isolated and exclusive every day, and rejoice at the idea of being part of an ever-shrinking elite of people who know "what nobody else does". They join improbable niche communities (sovereign citizens? MRAs?) and then ditch them in contempt, yearning for the niche of a niche, and then an ever smaller niche. Until the moment they find themselves frozen in that perfect state of solitude, where everything and everybody is hated. At that moment, the only final step they need to take, and I believe it's an easy one, is to hate themselves.
Look, I have exchanged a couple of PM's with EntrepreneurNet where he comes across as a resourceful young chap. He said a couple of things that make me feel he didn't really have a happy childhood, and a stable family. Heck, he didn't even grow up in a stable (as in "physically grounded") city, being from New Orleans! And yet, as a 20-something young man, he sounds light years fresher, more optimistic and proactive in turning his life around than all of these hate-spouting nutcases put together!
Hoping of moving abroad one day - time permitting, money permitting, etc. - will not change who we are and how we face society, how we live in our local communities.
Dreaming of solving a problem tomorrow does not actually solve the same problem today. This the same mental trap you Americans fell into by voting Obama. He never gave you people real factual solutions to solve small problems now. Only "hope" to change BIG problems, tomorrow. Well, don't pull an Obama on yourself.
I do agree that improving yourself is important (I've said it myself before in other threads); however, if you've already said what needed to be said, then why is there a need for women to get on here and say it? For the most part, I don't think that anybody here cares about the the opinion of AW. I don't mind it if others have opinions different than mine, as long as we can debate in a civil manner, which we ARE doing. So there's no problem. But when women get on here, they just try to shame us as they shame other men in real life. Listen to The_Hero_of_Men, he knows.
So in conclusion, if your vision is a forum where there are dissenters with a variety of opinions, well, I think we've got it. Obviously, you have a different opinion than the majority here. So I still don't see WHY there's a need for more women to be on the forum.