... whenever we have stats that show women, aboriginal people, people of colour, etc. in this light the dogma is "over-representation." Why aren't we concluded that men are over-represented in statistics?

I volunteer with seniors, and lots of the older women, if you're making conversation with them and you say something they don't like, they'll swat you. I never report it to the police, because, hey, Grandma has a bad hip already, we don't need her to go to jail. But maybe it's just that women are always slapping, putting men "in their place," men are just conditioned to be servile and respectful toward women.

That was the worst posting that I have seen in my entire life. I didn't read through it all. Your stats were just obviously not researched very well (even worse than the actual stats).

Probably you, and every other third wave feminist around here.

A week or so ago was a post by a guy,telling the abuse and financial abuse he suffered from women. From memory,one guy lost $100,000, another was $30,000, another was at $10,000 and many posted physical and emotional abuse they received.
Many thumbs up,confession was deleted by the GS censors,as I assume men being abused and complaining about it is "toxic masculinity" and a form of the patriarchy.
Man=always bad. Woman=always good.

I need to know what concrete steps are being taken to prevent future assaults on men by women. All I see are complaints that men's stories are being dismissed. Well, this is the Internet. The power is in everybody's hands. So mobilize. Take action. Do up infographics or something. Put together a sincere campaign (based on those sincere stories) to remind women to keep their hands to themselves because it IS a big deal. The more men complain without taking action, the less likely I am to empathize with them.

First you get the guy who_keeps _writing_like_this, then you get this other old dipshit who writes these long, arcane comments that try to sound smart, but basically boil down to, "white men are the REAL victims of discrimination."
And then there's the fanboy asshole who keeps writing about Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson all the god damn time because they also yammer horseshit that victim-ish white guys like to hear.

It should be obvious by now that there is a agenda to drive a wedge between the sexes so that both sexes would be at war with each other...basically killing care and love in the family dynamic in this world so that its easier to control us. Saying that some men are violent makes All men voilent is like saying all women are gold diggers...It seems way out there. Look up "social engineering"

... people trying to regulate the Confessions section. It should be a place of free speech. What you're trying to do (choosing who can post and what to post about) is more dangerous than someone trolling once in a while.

Oh, how wonderful! Another user who wants to cherry-pick stats.
I can do that too!

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nationally representative data revealed that over one year, men and women were equally likely to experience nonconsensual sex, and most male victims reported female perpetrators. Over their lifetime, 79 percent of men who were “made to penetrate” someone else (a form of rape, in the view of most researchers) reported female perpetrators. Likewise, most men who experienced sexual coercion and unwanted sexual contact had female perpetrators."

What about you, OP? Have you ever committed an act of rape? More importantly, how do we **TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE**?

Enough fun. Let's talk about the Vancouver Parks Board.
You referenced someone posting a "whine-fest" about the consideration of a policy that protects "women and other minorities" from male perpetrated violence.
Now let me ask, are you a feminist? Because last I checked, feminist doctrine never said anything about making women a protected class. What if women and "other minorities" start assaulting each other? What if women assault men?

Feminism dictates that everybody should have equal rights, and that includes safety. Does it not?
It seems the obvious goal should be to help keep *everybody* safe, rather than vilifying specific groups. Does that not seem reasonable?

I keep bringing up feminism because there are many obnoxious individuals on this board who identify as feminists. Almost all of them want to screech about how awful men are; all the while ignoring the very complex societal and economic factors that contribute to their behaviour. And now it seems increasingly likely that those factors might include being assaulted by a woman.

Social justice shouldn't be about creating division. That's what is happening, and it's a very dangerous thing.

I think the readership of the straight is disproportionately poor compared to maybe a more mainstream paper. Full of far left and right. But the left should get priority...this paper was originally very liberal and progressive.