Things that make you go, "Hmmm"
By Rod Van Mechelen, May 2014 - Olympia, WA
In this column I pose questions and raise issues. The purpose is to put a slightly different spin on each item, provoke thinking or give you ideas for how to respond to things. Think of them as "sound bite arguments."
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Give a fortune to a person who has been conditioned to rely on charity and does not appreciate the nature of money, and they will soon live in poverty.
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It’s all well and good to make “relationships” your top priority, but all the warm fuzzy feelings in the world will not save anybody when wolves are howling at the door.
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Were Sonny Bono, JFK Jr., and Philip Seymour Hoffman murdered, and if so, by the same people?
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Feminist wishful thinking: portraying men as sex objects will offend most men and prove that biology is sexist.
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Gender role-reversal scenes with feminist themes are meant to offend men, but seldom do because most men have a good sense of humor.
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If a person who is artistic is an artist, then a person who is autistic is an...autistic?
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If high price inflation is in our near future, then is everything "on sale" right now?
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Feminists believe successful men should apologize for their success.
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Feminists believe they should get to tell men how to live their lives.
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Feminists believe it is okay to lie to advance their cause...whatever that is.
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Feminists believe men who speak their mind are sexist.
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Feminists believe men should not be allowed to be engineers.
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Feminists believe men should be ashamed to have a penis.
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Feminists believe biology is a social construct.
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Feminists crave status and envy men who behave with class.
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Feminists believe their perspective is the only one that matters.
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Feminism is making a world where each woman gets to decide what "being a woman" means to her as long as it includes "progressive and socialist."
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Feminists believe male interest in women is a crime.
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Feminists hate anybody who disagrees with them.
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Feminists envy strong men but despise weak men.
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Feminists believe they can force reality to conform to their ideology.
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There are thousands of anti-feminist books, but publishers won't print them.
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In the original story, Robin Hood stole from the government goons and parasitic aristocrats and returned taxes to the taxpayers.
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Gender-flipping was started by Warren Farrell to expose the sexism of feminism.
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Progressive socialists on the left and progressive neocons on the right are divisionaries who divide to conquer.
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Feminists encourage women to have narcissistic personalities with control issues that they project onto men.
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When I'm attacked for being grouchy nobody cares, but let somebody get attacked for being gay and it's on the six o'clock news!
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Feminists portray men as vermin and tell women that to be free they must be like men, but vermin have no dignity and neither do feminists.
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Feminists are mind-raping western culture.
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The war in Iraq was not about oil, but about the primacy of the petrodollar.
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Victims of violent crimes who do not report the perpetrator share responsibility for the next victim.
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Feminists confuse complexity with critical thinking.
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Feminists do not tolerate any ambiguity except for their own.
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Feminist standards: black and white for men, pastel shades for women.
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The fight is not against GMOs, but against the efforts of GMO companies to ban legacy crops.
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Humor is a curse to those who celebrate pain.
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My freedom of speech is not a right to be heard, nor are you obligated to listen, and vice versa.
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Absent money, politics--i.e., the use of force--remains the dominant currency of the realm.
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Free trade is the foundation of peace and the principal obstacle to war.
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