{"id":1620,"date":"2024-11-18T17:19:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T17:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2024-11-20T10:51:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T10:51:24","slug":"the-meerkat-responds-illogical-arguments-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"The Meerkat Responds: Illogical Arguments, 2 & 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The second part of Mr David Thiessen’s illogical arguments relates once again to material of mine, that once again he is too cowardly to give proper attribution to. There is nothing much of any value in part two<\/a>, save for this intriguing little nugget, that reveals a nice dose of Mr Thiessen’s hypocrisy, and pretzel logic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you look at the false religions that abound, you will see that they tend to do what a lot of democrats, and liberals do and that is try to have power and control over others. That is wrong. Husbands and wives should discuss things rationally and like adults with the man having the final decision on all matters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emphasis mine. It would appear that for all Mr Thiessen’s posturing, he believes women are indeed subservient to men. He may deny this, he may scream and cry ‘distortion!’, yet the proof is in the proverbial pudding that he has served up. How else could he write the man having the final decision on all matters<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this is what Mr Thiessen believes (and this would certainly seem to be the case), then it shows his expectation that his Biblically-inspired mind has been shaped by Christian teachings to believe that men should have authority over women, which is the first step in seeing women as less worthy of respect and freedoms. Mr Thiessen goes on at length as to how women need to be protected, even going as far as to write: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bible is very clear that women are the weaker of the two genders and men have a duty to protect their wives<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women are not weak, and in many respects are in fact the stronger. Women endure considerable physical and emotional changes during pregnancy. Women can multi-task to a superb degree, keeping a household in order whilst also working. Women have historically proven their strength countless times, and do not need protecting, least of all the sort of arrogant protection that Mr Thiessen, through his distorted lens of organised religion, would have us employ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the third and final part<\/a> of Mr Thiessen’s Illogical Arguments, he chooses to to defend the notion that a woman’s body is not their own. He genuinely believes he has the right to tell women what they can and cannot do with their own bodies, perhaps motivated in part by a latent misogyny of his own. His willingness to regard women as inferior, as needing protecting, and as having no right to self-determination, has shone through across all three of his posts, ensuring that he has indeed written illogical arguments. It will be fascinating to see what further illogical positions he might hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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