[servo1969]

#34

No kidding.
Imagine living in a world where fully half your species are violent monsters. Every guy you see, every guy in the store, every guy driving by, every guy you work with... monsters. Even the ones in your own family- Your grandfathers, uncles, brothers, nephews, cousins, even your father. (Especially your father.) And if you ever mess up and give birth to a boy he will be a monster, too.

(It just occurred to me- you know who actually does live close to this way? Muslim women who must wear a burqa to keep from being beaten or raped.)

[Buggman]

In their case, they seem to develop Stockholm Syndrome instead--though to be fair to the Arabs, a friend of mine who lived in Saudi Arabia for a few years says that they do a marvelous job of making a safe environment for their kids. (And despise the Palistinians for using their kids as weapons, btw.) The kind of wounding you're seeing here tends to come from abuse at a very young age.

That, and it takes American feminism to turn one (or a few) men's abuse into a life-long hatred for 1/2 of the earth's population.