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<blockquote data-quote="questor70" data-source="post: 1260817" data-attributes="member: 12560">It didn't just start in the 60s.&nbsp; Remember the suffragettes around the turn of the century?&nbsp; The flappers of the 1920s?The industrial revolution created prosperity.&nbsp; Properity liberates women.&nbsp; Liberated women weaken men and male institutions.It merely accelerated in the 60s because of the counter-culture movement and the pill.Same deal with past civilizations that had an empire's peak ala Rome or the british empire.&nbsp; Wealth (and slave labor) was concentrated from conquered states and functioned similarly to fossil fuels and machinery does today.Again, there will be this continued search for scapegoats but it's ultimately a macro result of &quot;progress&quot;.The easier life gets, the more humanity struggles to function because we evolved to deal with a hardscrabble life.We want desperately to escape ahard life but when we do, we can't handle it.Nobody wants to accept this portrait of the situation because it doesn't present some easy target to attack, but that's the reality of the situation.&nbsp; This entire poll is built on a false premise.If you want to really fix the problem you'd need to genetically engineer these traits out of the human genome, otherwise it will require us collapsing back into a warlordism state to bring back a more patriarchal society ala Mad Max.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="questor70, post: 1260817, member: 12560"] It didn't just start in the 60s. Remember the suffragettes around the turn of the century? The flappers of the 1920s? The [b]industrial revolution[/b] created prosperity. Properity liberates women. Liberated women weaken men and male institutions. It merely accelerated in the 60s because of the counter-culture movement and the pill. Same deal with past civilizations that had an empire's peak ala Rome or the british empire. Wealth (and slave labor) was concentrated from conquered states and functioned similarly to fossil fuels and machinery does today. Again, there will be this continued search for scapegoats but it's ultimately a macro result of "progress". The easier life gets, the more humanity struggles to function because we evolved to deal with a hardscrabble life. [b]We want desperately to escape ahard life but when we do, we can't handle it.[/b] Nobody wants to accept this portrait of the situation because it doesn't present some easy target to attack, but that's the reality of the situation. This entire poll is built on a false premise. If you want to really fix the problem you'd need to genetically engineer these traits out of the human genome, otherwise it will require us collapsing back into a warlordism state to bring back a more patriarchal society ala Mad Max. [/QUOTE]

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