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RantMen who want to control other people's thoughts
I recently was confronted with a (non-trans) man who honestly thought he could force me to think about him a certain way.
It went about like this (not what actually happened, just a metaphor, it was a hobby thing, though):
We were playing a boardgame. He played in an uncomfortably antagonistic way. I said: "Um, sorry, but what you just did - that wasn't fun for me. Please don't do that again."
Did he say "okay, sorry, not gonna happen again"? No.
What he did ultimately decide to do was explain to me his long experience and expertise in playing boardgames - as if he expected me to be happy with his behaviour purely on basis of his alleged expertise, when I had just seen that no, he is NOT good at playing boardgames in a way that's fun for me.
Him telling me how much experience he had only made me wonder why on earth he was still so bad at it! (I mean, if someone has only been bad at something for a couple weeks, you think he might improve, but if he tells you he has been bad at it for decades, thank you very much ... well. It's clear no improvement is ever gonna happen.)
So yeah. It dawned on me that perhaps TIMs are not really different from other entitled males.
TIMs expect that lesbians will be attracted to them based on their claim that they are women, even while their actual bodies are male, and their behaviour also screams male.
Regular entitled males, apparently, expect that women enjoy spending time with them after being told that there is alleged factual proof that they are good company. Even though they are not fun to be around at all!
It makes zero sense!
To put it in writing theory words: He was telling me that he was a nice and fun person to be around ... but showing me that he was an entitled little brat throwing a tantrum over some perceived criticism to his oversized ego.
And he seemed to genuinely expect his efforts would be crowned by success. How do men that stupid even survive in the real world? Do they laze around in the office with their feet on the desk, then when their boss comes in, they explain in lengthy words what hard-working employees they are without even taking their feet off the table?
He also hated Jews.
He was a man of his time, a very typical man of his time.
He was a man, and just that.
Disney was not an anti-Semite. No evidence of this exists, nor of his being abusive to his wife.
He left 45% of his estate to his wife and two daughters, 43% to a charitable foundation, and 10% to extended family. He started the company with his brother, today the family owns just 3% of the company, which still amounts to many billions of $$.
He was a man of his time. Did racist, misogynist and anti-Semitic tropes exist in Disney films? Yes, by our standards. This letter reflects that time. I knew a lot of older women who had stories of being told, for example, why they weren't welcome to attend medical school, because "it would be a waste of time, we'll put all that effort into training you, and you'll get married, have children and quit." I knew women who were among the first to go to formerly men's only grad schools who were not warmly welcomed.
Because their religion said girls can’t inherit or because the daughters were a different religion than him?
Because they converted to a different religion from him... They became Roman Catholics I think...
For the record, Catholics don't exclude women and girls from inheritance.
Inter-generational family wealth transfer is just public property theft anyway so you should be lauding that he cut his kids off.
More likely it went to some male nephews or male cousins then? Not great.
If the government actually returned any of that to the people, for the people, then we could laud it.
Another post above says he spilt almost half between his wife and daughters, put almost half into a foundation he created, and the last 10% was spilt up between many extended family members. His will is actually online and copies have been sold at auction. His grandkids have actually had legal battles over the money.
She wasn’t discriminated on the basis of an imaginary inside speshul feeling. She was denied the job because her SEX is female. It’s sexism, not genderism.