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Ok, so do I get this correctly... this person is shaken in her feminist/equalist beliefs because she wants to spend more time with her family and this doesn't f
by martinkallstrom 14y ago
Ok, so do I get this correctly... this person is shaken in her feminist/equalist beliefs because she wants to spend more time with her family and this doesn't fit her earlier view that women too can put their career before the family.
The fallacy of her reasoning is twofold. First, gender equality is never measurable in individuals. It is only possible to measure over a population. Any individual is influenced by so many factors in her decisions that it is impossible to say what decisions are determined by her gender and not.
Second, her view seems to be that a man could never put his family before his career. Her realization could have been "Oh, as a human being I have a hard time letting go of the thoughts of my son who needs me, I guess I was wrong about humans". Instead, she thinks that it must be a purely female reaction to a everyday dilemma.
Her belief that a man would never feel or think the same is so strong that she rather questions her view that men and women are equal, than realizing that she is an individual that, just as many other human beings both men and women, cares as much about their families as they do about their jobs.