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We need some articles along the lines "A male artist...". You know, because equality cuts both ways. If you elevate one sex over the other, you're being sexist.
by b0rsuk 6y ago
We need some articles along the lines "A male artist...". You know, because equality cuts both ways. If you elevate one sex over the other, you're being sexist.
English is my second language and it has genderless nouns by default. That's enough if equality is really what you want.
- b0rsuk 6y agoImagine a headline "A Male Artist Who Shaped Manga History". That would sound ridiculous. A headline with "female" is the same kind thing if you like equality.
- bzb4 6y agoThese people don’t want equality, they want confrontation. They feed on comments like yours; ignoring these posts is the best course of action.
- coolgeek 6y agoIt's notable because the field is mostly male. That's really all there is to it. It's right there in the subhead "an overlooked Japanese cartoonist who smashed both gender and genre norms". Males who insist that there is a political agenda in articles like this make the same mistake as the feminists who argued that missiles are phallically shaped because they were invented by men