Immanuel Can wrote:Greta wrote:This shows how blinkered you are. Do you know who is oppressing those young males?
Oh. So it's other men, is it. Well, please enlighten me: where are these "mean men"? Who are they? They must be stopped!
Yes they must. Religious texts are nearly always written by men. The Torah, bible and Koran all insist we should be ashamed of our bodily functions and demand that the foreskin of males is removed. This is largely ignored in Europe, but is still inflicted on most boys in the USA*. The only function this procedure serves is to make masturbating more difficult and sex less pleasurable.
Then there's the military. Men with political, often religious, ambitions will commit men younger and fitter than themselves to achieving their objectives by getting killed.
Immanuel Can wrote:It's not women - it's older people (the vast majority being male) who are oppressing everyone.
Oooooh...I see. The generation that have actually made a pay check are oppressing those of us who haven't. Got it.
The aim of capitalism is to maximise profits, so that those with capital make more capital. This is done by making people work as hard as possible, for as little as possible. When capitalists hold political power, they invariably introduce laws that protect their ability to do the above and if the law doesn't suit them, they simply move production to somewhere the law suits them better.
Immanuel Can wrote:Then, rather than accepting the actual oppressors, certain types of Christians choose to do a little of their own oppressing of even more disempowered groups.
Please, do go on...who are these "Christians" about whom you are so "certain" who have so much power they can "oppress" all the "disempowered groups."
I'm loving this explanation. I can't wait to see how you work it out...
It is obvious to anyone who isn't a complete idiot.
*"Data from a national survey conducted from 1999 to 2002 found that the overall prevalence of male circumcision in the United States was 79%. 91% of boys born in the 1970s, and 83% of boys born in the 1980s were circumcised. An earlier survey, conducted in 1992, found a circumcision prevalence of 77% in US-born men, born from 1932–1974, including 81% of non-Hispanic White men, 65% of Black men, and 54% of Hispanic men, vs. 42% of non U.S. born men who were circumcised."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalenc ... rcumcision