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This article is absurd. (In what follows, I assume a United States context)... 1. No citation of the "insurmountable mountain of evidence" 2. Women are sti
by yanowitz 16y ago
This article is absurd. (In what follows, I assume a United States context)...
1. No citation of the "insurmountable mountain of evidence"
2. Women are still paid less that men (just look at Bureau of Labor Statistics stats)
3. Women getting unhappier (assuming the study is correct) is not evidence that feminism is the problem. Many of the gains of the women's liberation movement have been rolled back (e.g., abortion rights). Women's rights have been under sustained assault for decades.
4. Women are still expected to shoulder the bulk of the work for raising the next generation. But if they do it as single women, they are vilified by mainstream media. (Cuts in daycare and welfare are unlikely to have a beneficial effect on women's happiness)
I am going to stop there rather than construct a comprehensive rebuttal of a POS article.
I have criticisms of feminism, but in the basic which-side-are-you-on question, I stand with feminists.
- dmm 16y ago> Women are still paid less that men Women have different goals than men and their salaries reflect that. If you look at the numbers for young, urban professionals, women make more than the men. > Women are still expected to shoulder the bulk of the work for raising the next generation. What do you mean? > But if they do it as single women, they are vilified by mainstream media. Where do you see this?
- nfg 16y ago> Women have different goals than men and their salaries reflect that. Cite please that definitively links the pay gap between men and women to "different goals". > > Women are still expected to shoulder the bulk of the work for raising the next generation. > What do you mean? That society is organised in such a fashion as to burden women with the majority of the cost/effort of childcare.
- wdewind 16y agocitation? citation? citation? you can't ask for a citation about linking pay gap btwn men and women and then not give one for society being organized in such a fashion as to burden women etc. etc.
- wdewind 16y agoI love your demand of citation to the OP, and not a single citation here (with exception to BoL stats, but as the other respondent noted, general stats are pretty irrelevant to the actual argument being made here) 3. Abortion is still federally legal (and contrary to popular belief that actually HASN'T changed regardless of what North Dakota claims), care to give some examples of other gains that were rolled back? The article is definitely simplistic, but don't confuse simplistic with wrong.
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