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one_voice

(20,043 posts)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 10:25 PM Feb 2012

I'm a man...



I am a MAN!

I stand up for the inalienable right of women to hold dominion over their reproductive systems.

I stand for the affordable and safe reproductive healthcare.

I stand up to the patriarchal bullies who have enslaved, subjugated, oppressed and marginalized women for millenia.

I do not stand alone.

We are multitudes. We stand with women, not against them. We are men of honor - not sniveling cowards.

Every mother, sister and daughter is a human being.

I vote every chance I get.

End the war on women NOW!


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=354271471262226&set=a.123290884360287.13113.113544412001601&type=1&theater
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I'm a man... (Original Post) one_voice Feb 2012 OP
k&r liberal N proud Feb 2012 #1
+∞ n/t The Doctor. Feb 2012 #2
I assume that means BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2012 #11
Close enough. The Doctor. Feb 2012 #25
Yep, plus ∞ works too BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2012 #32
Here here! jimlup Feb 2012 #3
bless all of you. It is hard to remember that there are good men when this spew roguevalley Feb 2012 #4
ditto barbtries Feb 2012 #17
When the restaurant chain of Hooters started popping up mistertrickster Feb 2012 #24
kick Angry Dragon Feb 2012 #5
K&R....n/t unkachuck Feb 2012 #6
DU kick Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2012 #7
Absolutely! RC Feb 2012 #8
Time to ratify ERA n/t BlueToTheBone Feb 2012 #33
Solid K&R Amonester Feb 2012 #9
REAL MEN ARE AWESOME! Skittles Feb 2012 #10
Photoshopped, but the message is good lunatica Feb 2012 #12
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people"--Rebecca West BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2012 #13
I am not a man, but I recommended the thread anyway. Quantess Feb 2012 #14
Thank you for your stand! Paper Roses Feb 2012 #15
I stand with you, man in photo! n/t VWolf Feb 2012 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author old man 76 Feb 2012 #18
re: i am a man allan01 Feb 2012 #19
K & R Liberal_Dog Feb 2012 #20
This Is Cool ProfessorGAC Feb 2012 #21
This man says K&R! Odin2005 Feb 2012 #22
K'd & R'd. And that's the difference between LIBERAL men mistertrickster Feb 2012 #23
Yes, he is! nt proReality Feb 2012 #26
*That* is how you Man Up. KeepItReal Feb 2012 #27
Amen!!!! Swede Atlanta Feb 2012 #28
This gay man says K&R Not Me Feb 2012 #29
Men should lsewpershad Feb 2012 #30
Just an FYI... one_voice Feb 2012 #31
They're having great fun over there, the ten or twelve of them Stinky The Clown Feb 2012 #34
So you know what I'm talking about... one_voice Feb 2012 #35
I know exactly what you're talking about. Stinky The Clown Feb 2012 #36
Oh no... one_voice Feb 2012 #37
buy your own words, how would you do that? snooper2 Feb 2012 #39
OMG...that's so... one_voice Feb 2012 #40
no need to get embarrassed on a message board on the Intertubes snooper2 Feb 2012 #41
K and frikkin' R!! hifiguy Feb 2012 #38

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
3. Here here!
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 11:11 PM
Feb 2012

This is frustrating. I'll admit that reproductive rights are not front and center in my political mind but I also realize that that is partially because of my sex. As the last couple of weeks have gone by I have come to see that women are being unfairly used for political ends of rich white men. And frankly I don't think that the voices of women and their supporters in the male population will be silenced this November. I think this is going to be a big time losing issue for the reptilians this November.

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
4. bless all of you. It is hard to remember that there are good men when this spew
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 11:30 PM
Feb 2012

comes at you. This is the second time in my life that hatred of women is coming at me. I went through this back in the day and now? Again?Good men are blessings.

 

mistertrickster

(7,062 posts)
24. When the restaurant chain of Hooters started popping up
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 02:06 PM
Feb 2012

around the country some 15 years ago, I was floored.

How could this happen in post-feminist America?

Just unbelievable.

The fight is never over . . .

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
12. Photoshopped, but the message is good
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 09:10 AM
Feb 2012

My point about it being photoshopped is simply that we don't know who put that together, whereas if he had actually been holding the paper it would have been pretty obvious that he was holding it. In this photoshop his hands aren't anywhere near the paper.

The message is nice though.

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
13. "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people"--Rebecca West
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 09:20 AM
Feb 2012

Cicely Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892–15 March 1983), known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century.



I've been saying for quite some time that THE enabling factor in oppression and widespread abuse of women is the notion that women are not fully human, a notion that is reinforced daily in millions of ways, mostly subtle and embedded in the language and culture.

It's great to see this eloquent man speaking out. I'm going to Facebook right now!

Response to one_voice (Original post)

allan01

(1,950 posts)
19. re: i am a man
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 01:08 PM
Feb 2012

Why is it always focused on womens productive rights ? We men can go have our tubes cut and no one gives a hoot!

ProfessorGAC

(65,069 posts)
21. This Is Cool
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 01:22 PM
Feb 2012

Very strong statement and not the least bit inflammatory. Anybody who feels insulted by this has some mirror issues.
GAC

 

mistertrickster

(7,062 posts)
23. K'd & R'd. And that's the difference between LIBERAL men
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 02:04 PM
Feb 2012

and CONs.

I hope everybody hears that loud and clear.

one_voice

(20,043 posts)
31. Just an FYI...
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 09:32 PM
Feb 2012

Last edited Wed Feb 22, 2012, 02:25 PM - Edit history (1)

to those that presume to talk shit and not know what they're talking about. I'm a woman not a man.

I'm also not surprised some of you enjoy--by your own words--men to throw you against a wall. I prefer my man to love me like the queen I am. I rock his world and he doesn't have to throw me anywhere.

Y'all have a nice day now.




p.s. I will not link...

Stinky The Clown

(67,808 posts)
34. They're having great fun over there, the ten or twelve of them
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 10:11 PM
Feb 2012

The same ten or twelve who, apart from their interactions with each other on the internet, live sad little lives, devoid of human contact. The woman who wants to be thrown against a wall is a particularly hateful type. Getting thrown against a wall would comprise the whole of her sex life for the year.

one_voice

(20,043 posts)
35. So you know what I'm talking about...
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 10:55 PM
Feb 2012

She invited quite a few of her male counter parts to throw her against the wall. Hmmm....

They're all hateful assholes.

one_voice

(20,043 posts)
40. OMG...that's so...
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 02:27 PM
Feb 2012

embarrassing! Thanks for pointing it out so I could fix it.

But to answer your question...yeah ice cream would work, especially since I can't eat it cuz I'm trying to lose weight.

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
41. no need to get embarrassed on a message board on the Intertubes
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 02:48 PM
Feb 2012

We are all here for fun...

Except for the fanatics, this is series to them

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