@redpillschool

Solid point. They're both about shameless whores but Forrest Gump at least doesn't really try to hide that.

@woodsmoke hey at least with Titanic you know what you're getting in for.

@OPStolen

Do you enjoy writing poetry?

@deeplydisturbed

I'm never quite sure which is the worse film between this and Titanic.

@woodsmoke

Countries or nations function at a different level than individuals, and often have interests that don't align with those of their subjects.

Back in the Roman era, for example, males were penalized if they didn't marry, because they had to produce children.

Marriage as an institution was tailored for the interests of the state, not the people, and definitely not the man. Sure, monogamy afforded some females to the lower classes, but a wife for life was so miserable that prostitution or refuge to a mistress was rampant.

@adam-l

The whole point of monogamy is to get as many men as possible invested in the prosperity of their family and, thus, wider society.

Any system which deviates from that design necessarily leaves some men out in the cold, thus weakening that society unnecessarily.

I'm not saying husband, wife and mistress never happened but it was never the norm in monogamous cultures. It couldn't be. That would defeat the entire purpose.

@deeplydisturbed

I never got into the proper books but when I was growing up Spider-Man was one of the syndicated comics in my local newspaper. Still written by Stan Lee and covering his adventures as an adult, established in his career at the Bugle and married to MJ. She treated him exactly the same in those later comics and it kinda' became the template in my mind for how relationships should be.

Kinda' still is, to a degree. I obviously can see the relationship between them as Lee's idealized girlfriend/wife and I understand women generally don't work that way, particularly in the degenerate west, but what was portrayed there wasn't really unreasonable. Hell, it was probably seen as the standard when Lee was growing up - superpowers excepted, obviously.

@woodsmoke

I've not met many men in RP spaces who have much use for the men's rights movement. They may agree with the ideas in principle, as I do, but, as @Typo-MAGAshiv has stated before (too lazy to look up the link)

I got you, buddy: www.trp.red/feed/status/147653

CC: @Ill_Will7

Yeah, I really don't want to be lumped in with MRAs.

@deeplydisturbed

I would have highlighted the paragraph above that one but, ultimately, I agree with Typo. The language itself definitely runs afoul of rule 1 but it was obviously written with tongue planted firmly in cheek so I'm happy to let it slide. Plus he posted it in the tribe, which we've explicitly told people in the past is more forgiving and shit-post-y than the forum.

@Ill_Will7

Could just say you found a men's community online. Serves the same function and has the added benefit of being true.

I've not met many men in RP spaces who have much use for the men's rights movement. They may agree with the ideas in principle, as I do, but, as @Typo-MAGAshiv has stated before (too lazy to look up the link), they eventually came to the realization the MRM is a loser trap. In trying to meet women on an equal footing they've already entered into their opponents' frame and surrendered the battle before it even began.