But it isn't true. There is a big difference between the days of slavery and the days of the Slave Trade. When slaves were shipped in millions from Africa, they literally were not considered human. Sick slaves, too sick to sell, would be drowned after the auction. It was more cost effective to buy slaves and work…

Actually, I think one issue not addressed is how 'kind' slavery can be much more dangerous. A person very physically abused my collapse and die, inwardly or outwardly, but a slave treated well is the one less likely to rebel. The abused slave knows he is being oppressed and may rise against it, or at least pass on the…

That's a plain silly comment. The one doesn't diminish the other. It's about the suffering of both. Should the suffering of white women be ignored? It was a horrible situation for them too.

And not to forget the rage was largely driven by suppressed libido, more so in the South than anywhere else. The white woman was also physically crushed and shaped by tight-laced corsets, worn all the time. Look how young they were married, too. Their personalities were shaped by mental corsetry, imposed by other…

I do not think that is true at all. People aren't 'made comfortable'. What, should slavery be ignored?

Yes. agreed. Complicated stuff. But a cursory glance at history should dispel any idea that the oppressed will easily get together against the oppressor. That takes mass action and charismatic leadership. Remember the scene in Mississippi Burning when the Gene Hackman character tells of how his father killed the black…

It's not 'glossing over'. Slavery is a huge subject. There are so many issues. The relationships were not monolithic and they were very complicated. This is just one part of it, a twisted and difficult part, but it is dealing with the relationships between White women and Black enslaved women, and showing how both are…

Yes, totally. Absolutely.

To parody you..

And consider this. What sensible American woman is going to marry a poor guy when both in their 20s, support him through hard times and raise his kids? This means he'll get rich around 35 or 40. Then he'll look at her and say: the culture shows me men of wealth have women of youth, you are no longer young and its time…

Yes, because this is a society of entitlement. It hasn't helped to have all that 'self-esteem' stuff going on at school. This is not one-sided. People feel entitled to get what they can, without asking if they really want it or need it. Why are people so obsessed with piling up stuff? Or doing some so-called…

And they are not using the women for their perceived youth and beauty, at all.

They aren't being nice or respectful! They aren't obeying Granny's strictures at all! It's quite clear to the female that he is 'being a gentleman' because he wants to bone her. Extrapolation: if I were 'plain' he wouldn't be respectful, so he's an asshole! He buys me a drink, and he gets sulky when I don't put out.…

So just as lots of men only go after pretty women, lots of girls only go after successful men. That's not a comment on the women, its a comment on a materialistic society that is completely superficial. And if that society is always going on about winners and losers and using so much insulting language about jerks and…

Well, is it possible that you were just as much of a jerk as the other guys, but they were openly and sincerely jerks, while you were 'being the nice guy'? This is what this whole friendzone complaint is about. Men who are not really nice, pretending to be so, only to attractive girls and only to manipulate them. A…

And since sports are the modern equivalent of war, war that's right there, not in a far-away desert, you can see how that 'spoils' idea might be going on. That's thousands of years to contend with.

It isn't just athletics. I recently read a blog where a woman was politely asking the writer why he thought the 'alpha' behaviour would attract women. She explained that as inexperienced girls, she and her friends were rather intimidated by 'alphas' and went out with them, but come college and a little growing-up,…

Doesn't 'reached out to' mean 'offered support'? What is wrong with 'asked' or 'contacted'?

Because in the UK and US, people dont get slowly accustomed to booze at an early age. On the Continent, they start early adding drops of increasing wine to the kid's water, so they gradually learn to handle it. I dont see Italian and Greeks reeling around vomiting and pissing in doorways and falling on the ground…

God that made my blood run cold. Going to go through with it. What, one after the other? Jesus Christ.