Anyway, i love this piece, and hope you find the money for starting your new army soon!

Farseer Saeralyhn

And I don’t even want to think about the fact that you just brought rape into the discussion, because it really just disgusts me too much.
Really? It “disgusts” you for someone to mention rape? How can we ever have a discussion about an issue if you recoil at the slightest mention of it? Granted, we are not having a discussion about rape right now (and I am not interested in that), but it’s very weird that a self-confessed feminist is “disgusted” with even the slightest mention of the topic of rape to the point that you “don’t want to think about it”. You might as well be the stereotypical Republican lawmaker being scared of the word “vagina”.

Basically, if you can’t wrap your head around the idea that everything you would classify as “misandry” is actually a product of a patriarchal structure that hurts both men and women, I think we’re done here.

I don’t disagree with that. But read again what you just wrote here. NOTHING in it refutes the idea that misandry is a major feature of patriarchy, together with misogyny. Misandry is real.

And by the way, I haven’t mentioned how disturbed I was with your initial sentence that “I have never seen a guy less brave than right about when my foot gets near his crotch.”. Gloating over being able to take down a man with a kick to his crotch is not cool, by the way. It definitely qualifies as misandry.

You seem to be implying that hitting the vulva of a female is no more damaging and shocking than hitting her on the arm, leg, buttocks, or any other part of the body. Are you seriously going to defend this?

I will agree that males are probably on the whole more vulnerable to groin attacks. But to believe that females have no special vulnerability to groin attacks is really weird. There are lots of nerve endings down there, pal. I find it hard to believe that you as a female wouldn’t feel especially vulnerable to a groin attack.

Not that I’ve personally experienced it, but I’ve seen enough crying and rolling on the ground to get an idea.

I suspect the main reason you think this is because you have never seen a female being attacked in the groin. Males being attacked in the groin is a common running trope in comedy and other stories.

Besides, the biological purpose of the pussy seems to be (avert your eyes, Mom and Dad) taking a pounding and then later pushing out an entire little person.

Yep, and that’s why childbirth is an especially painful process. And why penetrative rape is often a physically traumatic event, despite the vagina “being biologically purposed” to “take a pounding”, as you said.

It’s a little disheartening to think that you can’t seem to understand that the fact that men are socially expected to do all the “dirty work” is a result of the misogynistic belief that women are incapable of doing those jobs, or a misogynistic desire to protect the prettiness of women who serve the primary purpose of being sexually desirable to men.

Listen to yourself. Read what you just wrote. It’s very telling that a social expectation on men to do dangerous work is more worthwhile for you to highlight as an example of misogyny rather than an example of misandry. In fact, it seems to be an example of philogyny!

Even more, the fact that you call such an expectation a privilege is unbelievable. Can you have a “privilege” to die? Do you think the fact that firefighters have to risk their lives to save strangers is a “privilege” for them? (Granted, it’s voluntary). Isn’t it more rational to think of the person being rescued as having the “privilege”?