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Ok.. so you think affirmative action is negative discrimination (when its whole point is to remedy discrimination) and that there's nothing wrong with the media
by gnosis 16y ago
Ok.. so you think affirmative action is negative discrimination (when its whole point is to remedy discrimination) and that there's nothing wrong with the media's endless depiction of violence against women. And you think anyone who disagrees with you on these issues is a "far-left extremist" and a "radical".
You also completely ignore the host of major issues that NOW has taken important stands on in its 40 year history and focus on these two things, as if that's all NOW was about.
I think this will be my last post in this thread. I didn't mean to get in to an hours-long debate about this.
- kokoito 16y agoI do not live in the US, so could you please elaborate on the violence depiction issue? I was under the impression, that men get their asses kicked in the media _a lot_ more. (partly due to our trouble in telling the difference between "awesome" and "possibility severe injury"). But I digress. From an international perspective, I cannot take feminism in the US seriously, I just can't. In the original post, for example, the author takes issue with the WORDING OF A TEXT BOOK. Are you f__ing kidding me? Is that a problem, noteworthy for feminists to tackle? No. Again, going back to the international context: do people know, how women are treated not only in the Middle East, but in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Russia and CIS or Turkey? _THAT_ is discrimination. _THAT_ is what feminism should be fighting against. _NOT_ about some silly issues in grammar and style.