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1. Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 02:38:35 JST Richard Stallman

   [1/3] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/12/donald-trump-election-sex-men-misogyny-feminism

   Women in several countries are responding to arrogant right-wing misogynous men by rejecting all men, for sex or for love. In a place where abortion and birth control are restricted, it is obviously rational for women to reject penis-in-vagina sex with men (except when they seek to get pregnant). This doesn't require rejecting all lovemaking, but that is what these women are doing.

   • Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 02:38:39 JST Richard Stallman

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     [3/3] see any good path -- only despair. With women hating them sight unseen, trying to be kind and considerate won't be enough to give men an opportunity for love. Even to learn what constitutes "kind and considerate" requires feedback from someone prepared to appreciate you when you make progress, and misandrists will form a solid wall against that. I am so sad for the men and for the women.

   • Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 02:38:40 JST Richard Stallman

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     [2/3] The misogynists will deserve such rejection, but what will happen to the young men who yearn for kind and tender love with a woman? They will well know that life makes that as unlikely as winning the lottery. They may join the misogynists only because no other path proclaims itself as offering any hope. Sensitive men will see that misogyny is a path to a dead end of twisted hatred, not a path to happiness. But when they reject that path, where could they go instead? They won't