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I think so. I would not say "I wish I could just use force to get women to have sex with me" is a common theme on 4chan. "Show tits or gtfo" or "women are stupid and/or weak and/or gay" are common themes. I have not visited /r9k/ enough, but extreme incel-ery was mocked on the more normie hobbyist boards.
You would think striking would be a logical step before more serious conflict. Yet, we see plenty of civil wars and domestic strife go hot without general strikes. It's not a necessary precursor to violence or coups.
I'm of two minds. I agree with you that violent conflict seems unlikely. If men have enough collective grievance and mass to try to strip power from the Women's Party, they probably can do so without violence. If they develop collective grievances and identity, but not enough mass, then that's just your average rebellion. Men kill other men over power and all is right with the world.
On the flipside, we're in uncharted waters. If universal suffrage in two-party systems universally approaches a 50/50 gender divide I'm not sure how that's supposed to work or remain stable. There is a limit to what policies people can vote for at the detriment to their spouses, such as reparations tax on men, and those without children/spouses don't create long-lasting dynasties. But of the culture war stuff where the divide is becoming most prevalent?
On the topic of war, what about a foreign war? If the Women's Party decides war is in the nation's interest they are sending the Men's Party to fight it. If the Men's Party doesn't want to fight it, then I don't see how that doesn't negate the legitimacy of the state. If the Women's Party identifies this problem, and thus never responds to conflict without the Men's Party approval, that similarly seems to call into question their legitimacy to rule.
Same.
It's an interesting trend. A gender divided party system seems unstable and people should probably worry about it. I guess one possibility is powerful women rule over men backed by T-3000 terminators and a matriarchy that provides women with government sponsored AI husbandos.
I don't see that happening without a large number of tech savvy simps making them, there simply isn't a high enough quantity of women with the capabilities (software engineering, hardware/weapons engineering, and manufacturing) to ever make that a reality.
Plenty of 'women' engineers with said capabilities. once the Chinese make AI waifus it'll be a short step before AI husbandos. And outside of reproduction women dont actually need a husband for anything other than carrying heavy stuff and being socially inclined to act first in dangerous scenarios. If the T1000 skeleton does all the actual mechanical work, why can't I just shove that in a Christina Henricks suit instead of Arnold? Just swap the genital unit on demand.
they said Colt made
peoplemen equal. There were some mass shootings by women, and usually they go with less victims and lower killed/wounded ratio (e.g. this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_headquarters_shooting ) even despite women being very competetive with men in sport shootingi have impression that they are too heavy on hedonism (e.g. videogames)
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In my experience, those 'women' are some of the most misogynistic people I've ever encountered.
please elaborate
Many MtF trans have a deep seated hatred of biological women, and many even see themselves as superior to actual women
The MtF I know are either self-loathing autogynephiliacs transposing a woman are wonderful effect back onto themselves and thus both desire and loathe natal women INTENSELY, or they are mentally injured (usually raped) self loathing depressives whose bodily mutilation are an attempt at deautonomizing their body.
Healthy autogynephiliac men shave and diet to become femboys, healthy gender fluid people just become transvestites. MtF is plain fetishism and narcissism wrapped in a +50 to Oppression skin.
You'll find little disagreement from me here, my default assumption is that 99% of MtF are autogynephiliacs and/or mentally ill, and 99% of FtM are girls who who sexually abused and/or mentally ill. The only part I think is really undecided for me is exactly how the breakdown is for perverts vs. mentally ill vs. both.
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