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seaglass

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1. This was great ism. Thank goodness work is so slow, I was able to read this and the 3 articles
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 01:00 PM
Jan 2015

it was in response to. Lots to digest.

I just love the end of the one you've linked to:

"I follow these discussions, the Feminists Need To Be More Considerate Of Men’s Feelings discussions, and I feel that, once again, men’s feelings are being handed to me to deal with. And I’m just not sure what I’m being asked to do with them. Do you want me to sympathize with you? That I can do. I’ve always done it, and I will always do it. If you recognized yourself in Aaronson’s post: I’m sorry you had such a shitty time. I wish it could have gone better.

But do you want me to sympathize with you, or do you want me to drop what I was carrying to hold your feelings instead?

That I will not do.

Every time I try to be more compassionate towards the men I criticize, I am told that I’m still not compassionate enough.

It’s almost as though they want me to just stop criticizing."

http://freethoughtblogs.com/brutereason/2015/01/04/compassion-men-and-me/

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