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Originally posted by squizzy
So presumably the men build this "all women city" then move the women in and leave themselves.
So when the electricity, presuming they have it breaks down or the sewerage works fail etc just who exactly will be repairing them. Should be the women as they will be running and living in the city. However where are the women going to be trained to work in the city and do all repairs to the infrastructure if they are not allowed to work unless living in the segregated city made for them. I see a bit of a catch 22 here. Yes we will allow you to work but we can't train you first as you are not allowed to work in a regular city.....hmph
Originally posted by Bhadhidar
reply to post by acidsweep
We are all inhabitants of this Earth.
And. lest we forget;
"An Injustice to One, is an Injustice to All"
And...
"No Justice, No Peace."
Originally posted by bluemirage5
reply to post by aboutface
The new Amazon women?
Originally posted by InTheLight
reply to post by aboutface
There had better be hot tubs and swimming pools.
Originally posted by natters
menstrual cycles of women who are around each other often will usually become in tune with each other.
There is going to be roughly a week of every month where no man will want to step foot inside this city... Strategic? or stupid....
Originally posted by aboutface
Originally posted by bluemirage5
reply to post by aboutface
The new Amazon women?
Ha! Now there's a thought!
One never knows. Maybe it's history going to repeat itself?
Originally posted by Bhadhidar
reply to post by acidsweep
Let's put this way:
Suppose the State were to build a nice comfortable aprtment for you. It would have all the amentities and every luxury you could think of, including round the clock service for food and laundry.
And you would be free to move in, at your own choosing.
However, If you were to choose not to re-locate to this new paradise; you would be confronted every day by me, and those like me, who would subject you to physical and sexual harrassment, possible violence and or arrest and torture for wearing what I/we consider "inappropriate dress" and/or "immodesty", amoung other arcane "infractions" of our "code".
Futhermore, you would not be able. or allowed, to defend yourself; you would be forced to beseech me, or one of my cohorts, to defend you.
But Hey, It's "just an apartment", right?
No one's forcing you to move in!
No one's saying you have to give up your "freedom" (to live at risk, and in constsant jepoardy, with little, or no recourse) right?
A Prison, no matter how Comfortable, is Still A Prison.
"Those who would choose Security over Freedom, Deserve Neither!"edit on 13-8-2012 by Bhadhidar because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Bhadhidar
reply to post by acidsweep
Let's put this way:
Suppose the State were to build a nice comfortable aprtment for you. It would have all the amentities and every luxury you could think of, including round the clock service for food and laundry.
And you would be free to move in, at your own choosing.
However, If you were to choose not to re-locate to this new paradise; you would be confronted every day by me, and those like me, who would subject you to physical and sexual harrassment, possible violence and or arrest and torture for wearing what I/we consider "inappropriate dress" and/or "immodesty", amoung other arcane "infractions" of our "code".
Futhermore, you would not be able. or allowed, to defend yourself; you would be forced to beseech me, or one of my cohorts, to defend you.
But Hey, It's "just an apartment", right?
No one's forcing you to move in!
No one's saying you have to give up your "freedom" (to live at risk, and in constsant jepoardy, with little, or no recourse) right?
A Prison, no matter how Comfortable, is Still A Prison.
"Those who would choose Security over Freedom, Deserve Neither!"edit on 13-8-2012 by Bhadhidar because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Maxmars
I suspect that we should not be too judgmental. No national culture changes instantaneously. Those who separate humanity into groups must know this is a human constant.
As a favorite author of mine once wrote, more or less; "The measure of a civilization is in the quality of its citizens."
We all have room to grow.
I think most understand the road is long, and change should be self-fulfilling. But it isn't.
The elders, the oligarchs, the technocrats, the robber barons, the ministers, and others who are somehow ordained to lead; all of these are what stand in the way of change... because the present is malleable... and being able to do a thing, they did it... and made a game of it ... so they can "win."
That's what we must overcome. And "force" won't fix it.
Apologies for the topic drift.... I got carried away I guess.