Question, is the man who lived with his parents playing EQ for nearly ten years for fear of the outside world really the authority of masculinity, and an alpha male at that? Is Kirun the leader of men that Rerolled deserves?
EQ was over 15 years ago, I played it or other RPGs heavily for 7. 8 years can give you a lot of life experience in a hurry, especially if you pay attention to the world at large. Not to mention, I was 13 when EQ was released. Not exactly a male's "prime" years to be learning about what masculinity is, what it means to be a "man", etc. It's hilarious to claim that you were a "pussy master", or learned many of the qualities required for attracting the opposite sex from the ages of 13-20. Those are truly the years where men exemplify all that is male...
I don't claim to be a "hero", I never have. Nor do I claim to be an "authority" on the subject. All I've done is offer a man's point of view. It's up to you to decide what to do with it. People are warping and twisting my words as an "attack", or a "hatred" of women. I've already discussed at length as to why they do this.
The minute you start saying dumb shit like women aren't good enough to be friends, or that no matter what woman you interact with, they are going to be subject to the "feminine imperative" and their biology (his code word for crazy and having no emotional control, which he has said also in his posts), I really don't see how you can see the person as anything other than a misogynist.
I've never said "women aren't good enough to be friends". That's your warped interpretation of what I've said. Anytime I even mention the word woman, you and several others can't wait to beat the drum of "woman hater!", yet I'm the one who holds onto such binary, black and white opinions? I've also never said that women have
noemotional control, but I have said that they are creatures which are heavily influenced
bytheir emotion/biology.
Misogynist isn't entirely meant to be dismissive. It's not a curse. There is always the temptation to attribute moral weight to these kinds of words. Kurin just lays it on really thick, and he paintseverywoman with that single brush. It is an over generalization which is neither useful or accurate.
I've already covered the "generalizing" topic in
thispost. Humans generalize about
everything. Just take a look at your memories of life - sure, you remember certain anecdotes or specifics here and there, but most of what you retain, and what you relate to others in your your day-to-day life? Those are your
generalexperiences.
"You can't paint all women with the same brush!", "Quit generalizing women so much!", or "Nuh, uh! Not all women are like that, just the shitty ones you hang out with!", are the most common, default responses to feminine "personal offenses". Obviously women's minds(or humans in general)don't run through a mental algorithm step by step like this until they repurpose objectivity into a subjective universal truth they find more agreeable. They don't need to when the work is already done for them with the "quit generalizing!" responses.
Just as with other feminine social conventions like, "just be yourself!" or the classic, "I just want to be friends!", "not all women are like that!" is a mental process that?s already been socialized by the feminine imperative for ease-of-use. Even when women(or feminized men)are forced by incontrovertible evidence to concede an objective observation that is damaging to the feminine, "not all women are like that!" is useful.
It's usually at this point of concession that the "men do it too!" reaction is enacted. If at some point during the process of personal reinterpretation a woman has the spark of real introspection, or is forced to acknowledge an unflattering aspect of female nature men make in the objective, the next natural response is to compare that aspect to another male aspect.
The rationale is one of "well, we women are bad, but you men are worse!", and it simply sidesteps the original, objective point being made. Distracting the issue is bad debate, but it's interesting to see the natural fluidity with which feminized minds will resort to it. The issue isn't
the issue,the issue is that men do something similar so the offensive point is invalidated. Needless to say this does nothing to address the original point.
The usefulness of the response really extends beyond just a defensive measure though. It is used and personalized in the hopes that women will generate sympathetic opinions of themselves(usually through personal anecdotes), and by extension women on whole, in defense of feminine perspectives. However, not all women are like that..until all women
arelike that.
If I were to debate the uniquely feminine merits of feminine social conventions that cast women in a positive light(one that compliments the feminine imperative),then all women
arelike that, and what's better is that
no man is ever like that. For example, if I were to bolster the myth about how "unknowable" women are or prattle on, praising the various aspects of the feminine, you would rarely read "yeah, but not all women are like that". Nor would you read "yeah, but men do this too." If I find something praiseworthy about the feminine, then no woman has an objective problem with "all women are like that", and there will never be a sympathetic counter-element that finds a corollary with anything men do. In essence, "not all women are like that!"(until they are), but men are
alwayslike that.
I notice that Kurin and Antarius only speak their minds on women in either a sexual or relationship perspective. It makes me wonder if they silently seethe at their female bosses, glower at their female friends, and dimly wonder how did we ever come to a world where three women sit on America's Supreme Court. How do they handle their daily interactions with women without collapsing into fear and anger?
Newsflash: 99% of the discussion of women on this board is in a sexual or relationship context. Pay attention to the world around you. 99% of
allconversations men have about women contain a sexual context/undertone. So, yeah, naturally most of my comments on women are of a sexual nature.
