Welcome Polly.
My guess is you are going to participate in some interesting debates...and not just with the young men here. There are some females here who might feel like debating one of your issues as well. Enjoy it! It will be fun.
I appreciate your approval and look forward to such debates very much. People in offline life seem not to want to talk to me about these things so think this is the right place for me to do so. Perhaps because the patriarchy hasn't yet completely asserted itself over the internet as it has over academic institution.
What
is it exactly? It's meaning isn't precisely crystal clear.
I can sense some intense debates coming soon
*readies the popcorn*
The inverted pink triangle stands for a vagina and the swastika is a sun symbol which means the power and light is shining out from the natural radiance of the vagina instead of being given to it by the male phallus. The swastika was herstorically a male phallic and solar symbol and my use of it is an attack on the symbolic hegemny of the patrists. I do not appreciate your frivolous tone though. You should treat these very real issues with more respect.
Possibly since the 1970s are long gone.
*laughs* People can say whatever they choose.
Commas are your friends.
'Needs' are curious prescriptions from the self-confident tyrants of human thought.
I never had a conscience. Honestly. Nor morals neither. Therefore I have the luxury of acting instinctually and without feeling the necessity to impose my views on others.
Claverhouse
You are an unthinking vessel for the agend of the patriarchists. These issues were definitely not solved in the 1970s as that is a myth widely perpetuated by the stooges of the patriarchy in an attempt to make it seem unrespectable to discuss these issues seriously. They know that enough has been done to quiet the masses while there is actually still a big mountain to climb before female natural dominance is realised as it rightly should be. I advise you widen your range of reading to non-patriarchal sources and also start to use your brain a little more than you do currently. You should also develop your conscience if you do not wish to be a worthless parasite on the efforts of those honest and true human beings who devote their lives to bettering humanity. I spit on your phallic apathy.
Hello and welcome Polly, if I may call you by that name?
Firstly I think there is something good in being as intensely involved in life as you are. It is rare in this age where a person can easily disconnect from any troubles or hard feelings by simply allowing whatever media is close to them to fill their consciousness.
Secondly I really think that I may have some advice that could be of use to you. I don't mean to impose as you speak of college and so must be much older than I am. However, it is an Idea of Chinese heritage so perhaps you haven't been so exposed to it? If I am being inappropriate please do inform me, and I shall apologise.
My advice is that it is a much happier way of living to flow with what you wish to change and redirect it by subtle currents of thought and feeling and empathy. How you are acting now is as a single damn against a powerful river. It must surely fail and that which you set yourself against must surely overpower you. If you think its very important to change things, I think that's fine and maybe very admirable, but perhaps you would consider that opening yourself up and becoming sensitive to the humanity of others might help you both to reconcile with them and then affect change in accordance with your new understanding?
Once again, I don't mean to impose. I only say this because I truly believe that flowing and empathizing rather than forcefully rejecting and asserting is a more humane and fruitful way to experience this life we have. I think we really do not understand the cosmos enough to take such a strong position; I think that surrendering to its endless surprise and beauty and connection brings so much more excitement and depth into our lives than aggressively asserting our transitory agendas over whatever small part of it we have influence over. If we can and should do something to aid others and alleviate their suffering as you wish to do, it is surely much better to do this by empathy and subtlety than by trying to force the world to fit our ideals.
Harness is so brittle and rigid and transitory while water is so powerful and never ceases to affect entire world. Water gives birth to life and wonder while determining state of our planet
I hope this is helpful. If not then I apologise deeply.
Jin Jing.
You are out of line, yes. I have lived for many more decades than you and don't need the kung-fu advice of a silly little Chinese girl who probably has been sheltered from the real world by her brainwashing patriarchal pseudo-communist government. I think you should read some real feminist literature, especially about LEGAL DOMINANCE FEMINISM, if you really want to understand the opression of humanity by men throughotu history. As far as I remember FungSHui or whatever it is your speaking about was a male born religion which accepted teh demotion of females to housewife-slaves.
I accept your apology though. I just think you need to broaden your horizons in the right way. Your not really entitled to speak on these topics unless you have traveled outside fantasy-land communist China.
As a German, I feel mildly offended by your lax choice of avatar material.
As an activist I feel that this is irrelevant so long as patriarchal supression continues. My point is that swashstickers are causes of disgust because they symbolise opression yet people are so hypocritical that they syphon of all this disgust into one symbol instead of the reality of their submission to the solar-phallic hierarchical patriarchy.
PollyIsAQueen... will Polly do?
Anyway, if you can draw an intelligent correlation between AI rights and the feminist movement you'll earn a great deal of respect from me and my support where/when I feel it's appropriate. The reasoning behind this is that firstly, I care a great deal about AI rights, so via the correlation I will have perspective from which to likewise care about this cause too. Secondly, in order to make the correlation you will need to understand and sympathise with the cause I care about, thereby demonstrating open mindedness and the humility to accept that there are other highly valued causes out there than your own.
Understandably there's much about this request (indeed this entire post) that is questionable, not least of which being my right to make such a request in the first place, but you should know deconstructing and/or otherwise attacking this post will earn no respect or support from me, no matter how intelligently it is done.
Mrs. Polly is fine, I dislike the patriarchal connotations of just ''Polly''. That's how rich men used to adress their secretaries. I think you have a point, yes. I think that given that women constitute half of the human race approximately they should be the primary focus for freedom from subjugation but that once that is acheieved it would be a logical extension of the egalitarian feminist perspective to focus on the freedom of all sentient entities from the solar-phallic hegemony.
A) It's 2009. Not 1970.
B) Pay for your meal at restaurants.
C) While many are aware of swastika's history, nowadays it's associated with Nazi Germany. Using this symbol as an avatar is not the most wise thing to do.
You are a mindless vessell of the patriarchy. I have no more business with such flippant dismissal. I reserve my right to be agressive as any Slave should reserve their right to agressively overthrow the tyranny of their so called owners. Freedom does not come from accomodating negotiation with tyrants.
Greetings and welcome to the forum!
As a fellow suffragette, I'm impressed at the decisiveness with which you fight for the Cause. I have made some
attempts to inspire debate around here, but have been most aggravatingly, and no doubt purposefully misunderstood by the puppets of the patriarchy.
Heil!
Hello comrade (sister?). I am unspeakably thankful to find support around here. I am sure that we may continue these debates in a less one sided way in future.
Heil!
I'd say that triangle looks more pink than red, so the message I infer from you avatar may be horrendously distorted from the message you may believe you're making.
Quite right, though I believe in a country still divided by major class barriers, universal equality is a much more major issue than simply focusing on one sex exlusively. Personally, I find it insulting that an intelligent person would limit themselves to simply advocating the rights of one sex over another, and I would hope that you yourself simply stop at equality, and don't focus on positive discrimination, as positive discrimination is simply a euthamism.
I for one am proud of my ability to violate the rights of any person, male or female, objectively. Rights are an illusion created by people who feel they are owed something by people who have convinced everyone else that they deserve what they have.
People can be intelligent and subjectively biased. Discounting one on account of the other is a fallacy one must attempt not to fall into.
Heil five. *Insert hi five smiley* As I'm sure we're all aware, suffrage is something that needs to be given to those in society who are unable to make intelligent decisions on their own. Fact.
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But isn't the whole point of Ts to argue with them, and cultivateour own intelligence by basking in their self imposed ignorance?
I think you are a comrade in spirit if not in direct cause. Yes I agree with you mostly but I think that our predominant concern should be the largest subjugated group: half of humanity, womankind. When such a large group is subject to the domination of the patriarchy there is little hope of altering such a deeply twisted culture to allow liberation for other persecuted minorities. Please read my words to cognisant.
I think you do not really beleive what you say about rights though. I'll ignore it as silly ideas put into your head by the cultural engineers so won't argue with you about it.
It seems obvious that Miss Polly is trying to troll here. Someone who would be genuinely interested in an intellectual debatte wouldn't use such an avatar and wouldn't pretend to be a friend of a forum member.
All sucessful activists must grab the attention of the sleeping public. It is always the dominant class the patriarchy who try to smear them by calling them ''terrorists'' or ''radical'' or ''trolls''. I reject your distortive tactics.
I apologize, by Ts I meant the T word, or Troll. The black and white thinking is so strong they remind me a reverse-biased diode. Sure there's gray area in the middle, but nothing non-hypothetical falls into that category. That quality is pretty indicative of troll behavior.
Godwin's Law states that the first person to references Hitler or Nazis in an argument loses. By self referencing both (via the 88 in their other post) they appear to be trying to draw us into a quandary where we try to support the pro-woman side of the argument while we attack the pro-Holocaust side. I believe the intent of the post is to divide us into arguing with each other in order to destabilize our environment. Face was better at it.
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So let's say I'm wrong and the poster simply came onto the forum in a foul mood and with a chip on their shoulder. Perhaps we should give them some benefit of the doubt.
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So Polly... are you an INTP? and if so, how did you find out?
I have been made very bitter by years of rejection of my cause but I am not doing what you said I was. Everything extreme in relation to prevailing norms seems black and white to those within the norms but that doesn't mean that the norms themeselves aren't wrong. When the scale itself is changed so that the previous extreme is closer to a norm then its not black and white. That is my answer to you.
Yes I do have a somewhat hostile temper with regards to patriarchs but I'm sure that the content of the debate and not the tone is more important to all of us who are true intellectuals.
Yes I am an INTP and I found out when an occupational therapist offered me to take the test off the record (her university did not support MBTI oficially).
I am Chinese.
Albeit Singaporean Chinese.
edit: Oh lord its a feminist. I cannot understand for the life of me why one would see the need to 'make a point' on this forum when we intps are already highly androgynous mentally and somewhat physically.
If intps ran the world there would be no gender issues, so there is no need for activism
here.
You are Wrong
. I'm sorry I tend to be too nervous about these things because I can't really say what I think in Chinese culture and people always seem to expect something very different from what I am after hearing that I'm mainland Chinese. 
I believe that democracy is a great system of government, though it requires conscientious individuals who remain informed and intelligent. It seems that all democracies eventually fail, but I can't think of any system of government better than a democratic republic.
member to make it appear she too was older (she said at one point she has many decades on one of our other members.. meanwhile, she has the hostility of a teenager. hmmmm 
