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Major Nikon

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6. I doubt turning this argument around is going to do much good

Reply to 4th law of robotics (Reply #5)

Tue Sep 4, 2012, 04:52 PM

Sep 2012

Men have been portrayed as beasts unable to control their instinctual urges at least since the feminist heyday of Dworkin, MacKinnon, and Morgan and this theme has been repeated over and over to present day. So it's pretty hard to establish an equivalency when one side has been portrayed quite effectively as sub-human for the past 30-40 years.

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Sexism against men proliferates on DU once again [View all] Major Nikon Sep 2012 OP

Yep DavidDvorkin Sep 2012 #1

Par for the course..what else is new? Upton Sep 2012 #2

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This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague Sep 2012 #4

When a boy is sexually abused by a woman ‘people do not often recognize the harm’ 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #5

I doubt turning this argument around is going to do much good Major Nikon Sep 2012 #6

Probably not 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #7

Fear not... The Eumenides have already passed their righteous judgement on this issue Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2012 #8

I wonder how long a thread 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #9