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What you are asking for is the ideal world scenario, the one we hope to get to as we teach our children exactly what you say here. But the reality is, advertisi
by telesilla 7y ago
What you are asking for is the ideal world scenario, the one we hope to get to as we teach our children exactly what you say here. But the reality is, advertising and patriarchal forces among other things have caused us to live in a gender unbalanced society. We need time and effort and to work together to acknowledge there are problems, then we'll get there.
- numlock86 7y agoPutting people into categories based on physical attributes like gender, race or physical abilities and putting artificial quotas on them is far from "acknowledging the problem". It's part of the problem. That's what gave us a "gender unbalanced society" in the first place. See every person as the individual they are, not as part of a group with a certain attribute. Then we'll get there.
- telesilla 7y agoWe're completely agreeing! We are in an unbalanced society. So I'm with you, to work together to move onwards. That means not pretending that things aren't messed up, as a first step. Feminism has done a huge amount of work for this, as has post-capitalist and post-colonialism theory. One of my favourite theorists right now is Rosi Braidotti if you are interested, see for example the introduction on her here: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy/home/thinking_out_loud/2018_braidotti_human https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy/home/thinking_ou...