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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good grief dude.  White Men invented 99.9 percent of every modern day necessity, system and luxury. Embrace the grace and glory that is man and buy her a ring.[/quote]

Actually white men stole credit for many inventions by white women and people of color.[/quote]

Like? What a stupid assertion. [/quote]

Ada Lovelace was the first known computer programmer.  Many men have attempted the cover that over, calling her crazy and bipolar.   Martha Coston invented the signal flare, but credit was given to her long dead husband.  And so on. 
If you think about history and how women were pushed back by societies,  it's heartbreaking.  All the women who were swamped in children , with no birth control or power over their destinies,  so many were wasted creative forces. Only the ones that bucked convention made a name for themselves,  and many of those saw their ideas stolen, or even worse were killed. White men certainly did invent many things, because they had the privilege to. That wasn't enough,  as they also took credit for women and POC many times. 
I currently have two books on my coffee table that were by women. Both had to take male names to even get read by editors and published.  There is a history of stunning woman painters, buried by white males who had the luxury of schooling and abandoning family for art.

Back to the ring discussion.  :)[/quote]

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