Left Coast BC

I am secretly so sick of the Left Coast and Left leaning media. - I am convinced that the Georgia Straight monitors only let left leaning posts go through Confessions. - Have you noticed that when there are left leaning, feminist or #metoo postings on newpapers, the media is often blocking user comments (so they can get on their pulpit and preach without response)? - Men are way more likely to be victims of violence, but we need to "stop violence against women"...how about we stop violence...period? ... cause I am pretty sure guys don't want to get beaten either ...from other guys, violent girls (yes it happens). I am a father of a daughter, a husband of over 20 years, a brother of sisters and son of a great mom. I am surrounded by super awesome women. I am the biggest fan of the women in my life, but this us and them polarity needs to stop for dialogue to start in the media. But in this "woke" conversation, if there is only a one sided dialogue...why both listening?

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Breath deep & relax

Feb 10, 2018 at 10:43pm

Chill out buddy & smoke some weed

Jinx

Feb 10, 2018 at 10:51pm

As per Straight Confessions, I feel there are two moderators. Points of view posted seem to sway from ultra left to centerish week to week, almost like they switch mods weekly. Right wing stuff? Forget it, unless crafty clever words are chosen to display displeasure. Could use some more of it though.

Mate ....

Feb 11, 2018 at 1:54am

I agree violence by women against men both physical and mental is a thing but despite the thoughts of a number of men I know the abuse of women by men is far more prevalent than the abuse of men by women. However both should be stopped and we need to start somewhere

jared.west@Yandex.com

Feb 11, 2018 at 3:15am

Most Based Confession ever.

I grew up in Left Coast suburb where tolerance and diversity were preached to me at school but not practiced: no tolerance for my divergent worldview.

duckymuck

Feb 11, 2018 at 9:25am

96 percent of controlling violence is perpetrated by men against women. The impact of violence on women is typically much greater on women than on men. "I am a super fan of women" gives you no credibility when you throw around the dishonest suggestion of the disproportionate victimization of men. If you were abused, you need to talk about it and get help, not enflame engagement with non-existence statistics and invocations of political debates.

I agree.....

Feb 11, 2018 at 10:02am

major feminine bias on here.

John BC Clark

Feb 11, 2018 at 10:10am

Right. And there should be a white people's history month too!

It's...

Feb 11, 2018 at 11:29am

... not just the left-coast. It's the whole University system. We had a sexual revolution in the 60s, and there was lots of talk about sex on campus, how sex is related to everything. Some professors were unabashed about informing their students that to learn, you needed to be "turned on." Sex and learning are related, they're certainly not wholly distinct things, sex is implicated in everything.

This made a lot of feminist academics uncomfortable, because they feel that discussing sex should be taboo, or, if not taboo, that they should police the conversation. Thus, the notion of 'sexual harassment' was born in the 1970s, not on the West Coast, but in East-Coast Universities. The term 'sexual harassment' was introduced into the scholarly literature via journal articles in "critical legal studies," and these journal articles eventually found their way into some cases under the US's "Civil Rights" acts. The thesis in these articles is that sexual harassment is a form of "gender-based discrimination" and therefore contrary to the civil rights acts, even tho that was never the legislative intent when the acts were passed. However, this term was brought in through case law, and this process is now the model for prohibiting speech of all sorts: if the academic left wants to prohibit a sort of speech, they simply need to write journal articles stating that speech act X is "discrimination against Y" where Y is some very vague and general protected group, like "women" or "minorities" or "disabled people." These journal articles are then picked up and used as "expert opinion" in cases, or before Human Rights tribunals, which are, essentially, administrative tribunals whose enabling acts are cut and paste jobs of the US Civil Rights Acts.

What we have is a publicly subsidized religious fundamentalist network who pretend that they are simply the "superior ethical people" whose role in life is to beat down everyone who isn't as "superior" as they are. Of course, this is how an abusive mother treats her male children, they are "stupid boys" who need to be 'shown the way.'

The University in many ways provides an escape from the family, the natural mode of organization, for people who have bad families---but the danger is that they use the University to force their bad manners on us all.

Oh man

Feb 11, 2018 at 11:34am

Same narrative's been going through my mind for months!! Agree with every point brother. Women are so emotional, they don't seem to be able to realize that if they want equality, fairness, to level out the playing field... they need men on their side!

Misery loves company. Stay.

Feb 11, 2018 at 12:59pm

I think a ton of us feel the same way.

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