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Bonobo

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3. I know MANY men that are forced to work away from their families.

Reply to 4th law of robotics (Original post)

Tue Nov 6, 2012, 01:08 AM

Nov 2012

They have to live in separate cities where there are jobs to provide. They toil for their families with little of the daily joys that family bring. Their children grow estranged from them and they become strangers to the family.

And society tries to pretend that men don't have the same feelings as women vis a vis family -that somehow this estrangement is what they want as opposed to what they HAVE to do?

This is reflective of the subtle and not so subtle demonization or dehumanization of men that is a fabric of our society.

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