You are actually the one who opened my eyes to the fact that voluntaryism equally applies to sexual libertarians, so I was rather stunned to see you use a voluntaryist argument. In actual fact, we do impose our political visions on people’s bodies all the time. We prohibit murder, theft, fraud, rape, sexual harassment, and so on (granted, none of these are fairly prohibited), because we have an idea of what society should be like (presumably, as safe as possible without interfering with people who are not attacking or intruding on others) and what it shouldn’t be like. (the issue of the legitimacy of laws is another thing entirely- laws are written by men for men, and they are enforced extremely unevenly and violently, but the basic principles are just)

I just wanted to know if we were on the same page. I apologize if what I wrote on my entry was offensive, that wasn’t my intent.

:) I love stuff like this. Men try to keep these facts hidden, but the truth will always prevail.

The problem is with the way most men define their masculinity as something in opposition to women, who use being male as an excuse hate women, to rape and abuse women. How are we supposed to handle this mentality? I don’t hate people for their gender, but I do hate people who use it as an exuse or justification of destroying women mentally, emotionally and physically. I’m actually suprised more women don’t express anger at men. It never ceases to amaze me how forgiving so many women are.

Being born male isn’t a problem, but defining being a man as superior to women and using “just being a man” or “boys will be boys” as an actual excuse to harrass, abuse and rape women needs to be called out. And it needs to be called out by the men who claim not to be that way. If you abhor this toxic definition of masculinity that is all around us, speak UP.

Many womyn come into this world violated and abused by men at an absurdly young age. I myself was raped with impunity by my grandfather from the age of seven. A man took it upon himself to introduce me to the world in this manner, and there’s nothing about that I’m supposed to hate?! Take your pompous, mansplaining ass elsewhere. There is nothing about the subordination of womyn and girls that could ever be justified, intellectually or otherwise. Until you feel that kind of oppression viscerally, on a daily basis, from the day of your birth, you will not understand what womyn have been dealing with in the face of patriarchal rule. Men hate the writings of Andrea Dworkin for example, because she takes the debate away from the language of what is being done to womyn, and puts an unflinching focus on the acts being committed to perpetuate a system of male dominance.

The Nazis had endless rationalizations around what they did. I often see males using the same reasoning. For shame.