@trip ... spend four years in high school, date four girls with completely different views on the world, and spend three years wasting your life on Tumblr and then tell me that people, regardless of sex or other physical characteristics, can take a joke. Besides, I worry about my age group, just as you all worry about yours. That I don't regularly interact with older women outside of my teachers and family (who you separate for some reason, even though they all fit into your demographic) means little.
@oscar ... I appreciate your response as well. However, I'm going to stop right here: "A couple of things do, and hopefully some of them will educate you a bit about women."
You want to educate me about women? Thanks buddy, are we sitting around a bar somewhere chugging some light beer crap? I guess we can add another word to sexist and misogynistic - patronizing. Old oscar knows his women. They're simpleminded beings, unlike us men, complex and unlearnable. They're easy to conquer, right?
I read on anyway. I'll ignore the first paragraph since apparently you don't care, though you bothered to write it anyway so obviously you do, but whatever.
Here's one - "Growing balls is a quite common idiom"...
...so something being common makes it acceptable?
Again, are you going to go around saying "grow some ovaries" to your buddies? Yeah, I didn't think so. There is nothing okay about saying "grow some balls" and I say that while readily admitting that I've used the phrase plenty of times too in poor judgment. The expression holds "balls" (are we as people not mature enough to call them testicles already?) as some sort of symbol of power, like people with "balls" are fearless, that if you have them you're going to get through it without a scratch. Ironic, too, because "balls" are literally the most fragile organ in the male body.
"It's just a linguistic form that means to become courageous"
Before you tell me I can't pull the words apart, you're wrong, I can, and I am. There is nothing courageous about having two testicles and a penis. It means you're male. Being male does not make you courageous in any way at all.
"So, what is actually offensive to women here is the fact that you think that they are so feeble and weak that they need saving (by you, the heroic man) from such a common phrase."
Yes, and the minorities of the nation are offended by my support for a small degree of affirmative action programs, the homeless are offended by my offering them money if they need it or volunteering my time to help them find jobs or find shelter, and goodness me, the kittens of the world are offended by my desire to adopt them, feed them, and help them live long and healthy lives. Nice.
"Most women use purses. That's a fact."
Yeah, probably.
"Mentioning a fact isn't misogynous."
No, typically not.
"Or otherwise, with the same reasoning, it would be misogynous to mention the fact that women have boobs."
Not at all.
However...
"If women would grow balls, where would they keep them? I'm guessing in their handbags."
These words do not represent a fact. They represent you, being completely out-of-your-mind drunk, combining a completely ridiculous remark with a stereotype in order to make some sort of convoluted joke.
"I would have you know that in all my 40 years on this planet I have never been assaulted by any angry woman despite my many encounters with them. In fact I always get along with them just fine."
You get along with women just fine; no wonder you have had so many encounters with angry ones. I'm not here to comment on your life because I don't even know who you are, but really, you actually had a little steam going at times before you pulled this out of your ass.
"And believe you me, when I mentioned women and purses I did not mean it in that way"
Then you ought to be apologizing, because sometimes things don't come out as we intend them. Instead, you're trying to defend it anyway, whereas you could apologize for making a sexist remark and then I'd probably let you off without another word because in the grander scheme of things it's not a big deal.
"I have on multiple occasions been praised for my gender neutral emancipated beliefs"
Congrats.
An apology is more than warranted and by avoiding it you're only reflecting poorly upon yourself.
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