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Well there’s more than 2 genders but that’s another issue. The point is we live in a male-dominated society where men have controlled a majority of political an
by door3 9y ago
Well there’s more than 2 genders but that’s another issue. The point is we live in a male-dominated society where men have controlled a majority of political and economic power since this country’s inception. In terms of gender, here’s a few policy proposals:
-financial compensation for housework/child-rearing
-reduced hours for the primary caregiver at the same level of salary after childbirth (usually the woman)
-equal pay for women mandated by law (pass the ERA)
-much stronger policies against sexual harassment
-more women in positions of power
-full subsidy for menstruation products & birth control
-paid maternity leave for all workers
-universal healthcare
-comprehensive sex positive and consent focused sex education in public schools
I could go on, but the main point is men & male society control politics, science, the economy, etc, so the whole society is predominantly oriented around men. A lot of shifts are more cultural (like attitudes towards harassment and sexism) which is harder to make into concrete policy proposals.
- alexashka 9y agoLet's go on with answering the actual questions I posed - what you mean by equality, and how you propose to end systems of oppression. So far you've proposed laws - which are a system of oppression, and your laws have nothing to do with equality either. Going by your logic of who has controlled political and economic power - why not break it down by hair color and propose policies that make sure there is equality by hair color. Also eye color, and width of neck equality, very important. I'm not sure how you're going to harmonize eye color equality with hair color equality, maybe we need machine learning to make it 'equal'? I hope this example shows the lunacy of taking one trait and saying we now want to balance it out with another. Let's have policy for equality of beautiful and ugly people too. If a beautiful woman gets to marry into more money/power than an ugly woman, we have to have equality there too. I can go on and on, I hope I've shown how moronic the equality stance is. Ending systems of oppression is equally idiotic and I can devote another post to it someday.
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- door3 9y agoIf you think that neck width hair and eye color are traits which have as much historical social and political significance as gender we aren’t really having the same conversation. Women should have money and power they shouldn’t have to marry into money and power. That point alone shows me we aren’t really having the same conversation, that your idea of a female power is “marrying a rich dude”