03-21-2014, 12:00 AM
Littlepaw wrote:I have seen a couple of things posted about this, do I need to man up Shamanka?Nah. You don't need to do anything Littlepaw.
You, (and others), probably remember my comments from several weeks back in the "Feminine Appreciation" thread in which I mentioned I was going to make a new thread explaining my views on gender issues. I imagine some people have wondered what happened with that and why the thread never came to be. Well, the truth is I did over 2 hours of audio recording explaining my views, trying to back them up as well as I could being very out of practice on discussing these things and arguing from a position that is pretty much the opposite of what everyone here has been told is the morally correct way to view things, and with evidence completely contrary to what the TV has told everyone to believe about gender issues. But, in the end I didn't post it. The reason was because I really, really didn't want to.
Discussing these issues cost me a lot in the past. I was a fanatic, I was determined to push everyone to agreeing with me and I lost friends and isolated myself from people because of it. Yes, I got a lot of respect from many people in the men's rights movement online, but what good did that ever do me? I've got a little bit of a legacy. If you've ever heard of MGTOW, (Men Going Their Own Way), well it was in part my writings that inspired it, (the main creator actually listed me as one of the founding members, although I never was actively involved with them). Also if you've ever seen anyone rant "feminazi ****!" at someone on youtube well I'll take credit for that as a partial legacy from some of the stuff I did in my activist days. I don't agree with the ranting approach now, but I know how easy it can be to find oneself doing that. So I guess I gained a little. But it really felt like so little compared to what I was doing to myself back then.
Anyway, its been years since I really talked about these issues, and I didn't come to these forums for that purpose. So that's why I didn't post it. I thought it would be distracting from my real goals and that it might isolate me from everyone here as it has done sometimes in the past. And I didn't want that to happen either, because I see this place and the people who come here as important to my path. But I guess the fact that I don't want to discuss this stuff is irrelevent. I hate saying that I felt moved by the spirit to reply to shamanka in here because I think it sounds generic and stupid, but its what happened. So, I guess I need to talk in these forums about this stuff and see where it goes. You, Littlepaw, are free of course to join in the discussion as you wish, but for me at this moment I feel like this is "my fight" so to speak, and that I shouldn't hesitate any longer on it.
You, (and others), probably remember my comments from several weeks back in the "Feminine Appreciation" thread in which I mentioned I was going to make a new thread explaining my views on gender issues. I imagine some people have wondered what happened with that and why the thread never came to be. Well, the truth is I did over 2 hours of audio recording explaining my views, trying to back them up as well as I could being very out of practice on discussing these things and arguing from a position that is pretty much the opposite of what everyone here has been told is the morally correct way to view things, and with evidence completely contrary to what the TV has told everyone to believe about gender issues. But, in the end I didn't post it. The reason was because I really, really didn't want to.
Discussing these issues cost me a lot in the past. I was a fanatic, I was determined to push everyone to agreeing with me and I lost friends and isolated myself from people because of it. Yes, I got a lot of respect from many people in the men's rights movement online, but what good did that ever do me? I've got a little bit of a legacy. If you've ever heard of MGTOW, (Men Going Their Own Way), well it was in part my writings that inspired it, (the main creator actually listed me as one of the founding members, although I never was actively involved with them). Also if you've ever seen anyone rant "feminazi ****!" at someone on youtube well I'll take credit for that as a partial legacy from some of the stuff I did in my activist days. I don't agree with the ranting approach now, but I know how easy it can be to find oneself doing that. So I guess I gained a little. But it really felt like so little compared to what I was doing to myself back then.
Anyway, its been years since I really talked about these issues, and I didn't come to these forums for that purpose. So that's why I didn't post it. I thought it would be distracting from my real goals and that it might isolate me from everyone here as it has done sometimes in the past. And I didn't want that to happen either, because I see this place and the people who come here as important to my path. But I guess the fact that I don't want to discuss this stuff is irrelevent. I hate saying that I felt moved by the spirit to reply to shamanka in here because I think it sounds generic and stupid, but its what happened. So, I guess I need to talk in these forums about this stuff and see where it goes. You, Littlepaw, are free of course to join in the discussion as you wish, but for me at this moment I feel like this is "my fight" so to speak, and that I shouldn't hesitate any longer on it.