Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
A greater presence of women in public situations is great, yes. However, that is only one aspect of the entire discussion. The majority of the time they only discuss "women's" issues, whilst there is an entire female consituency that is considered somehow different to the rest of society and can be pandered to as an "interest group". And yet men aren't? That strikes me as a thoroughly gendered society where people are expected to care about one thing or another because of a characteristic that they possess at birth.
No, men have always been an interest group. It was the male interest group that didn't want women to gain the right to vote in the first place. I don't see what you are saying. You say woman's issues as if that is an artificial construct. But the fact that women have a uterus and men don't automatically make the subject of abortion more or less a woman's issue, because in all honesty men can't fully understand what it is like to have a uterus. Just like women don't really understand what the feeling of getting kicked in the balls is like.

Women are expected to care about one thing (abortion as example) because of their characteristic of being a woman because the issue itself revolves around their identity. Gender is part of our identity. When an issue targets a specific gender, it targets the individual, so of course they are expected to care about it. Is a woman going to go, "I don't care much about abortion, it's only about the freedom of my body vs the life of the kid that will grow inside me." Like wut?

Quote Originally Posted by ajaxfetish View Post
I think having a kid may prove a rude awakening for you.

Ajax
Perhaps, I know roughly how tough young kids are. I am pretty sure I won't have that much time to myself for the first 6 years or so. But when they get to school, I think I can get on top of everything and have enough free time. In all honesty, math, science, history etc... up through high school is simple stuff and if my kids need help in that regard it shouldn't be too much of a problem. I was tutoring fellow students about chemistry when I was taking my high school chem class. Hell linear algebra wasn't too hard for me and yet a lot of people had trouble with it for some reason.