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For a vastly different take on the same subject… (no comment) https://medium.com/about-work/405b2d12d213 https://medium.com/about-work/405b2d12d213

• joyeuse6701 13y ago
  Rant/Manifesto, but more rant.
• jerrya 13y ago
  Wow. Very misguided take at that. Interesting how she characterizes it throughout her piece as a very violent gender war, but at the end claims it to be a class war at then end. I think that's the crux of many of the problematic perspectives of contemporary feminism, that what are class differences are jammed into the square box of gender war.
  • Crake 13y ago
    Well, according to Feminism 101, everything in society that is bad is because of the Patriarchy. So even if it is a class war, men are still to blame for it. I...don't agree with this, but they make the same jump in "logic" over and over again, so it's fairly predictable. It's frankly a little alarming. College should be about learning diverse methods of evaluating a position, and critical thinking, not blaming everything on X root cause. (Any given problem is quite likely to have several variables affecting it.)
    • casiotone 13y ago
      Yeah, they should do more of that "critical thinking" where you deliberately mischaracterise an entire ideology and dismiss concepts out of hand. You realise that the theory of patriarchy has been extensively discussed and refined throughout the years. More 'critical thinking' has gone into it than you could even dream of. I am willing to wager that you've never even picked up a book about it, let alone read one. So, explain to us your theories of 'critical thinking'...
      • Crake 13y ago
        Picked up, and read. Wrong on all counts. :)
• Crake 13y ago
  "Make no fucking mistake that you occupy your cushy tech salary, your mid-level management job, your paltry access to power by permission of the patriarchy." Oooh, it's one of those tumblr-style feminists. You always know you're in for a psychotic, incoherent rant when they start dropping the f-bomb repeatedly. (not to mention blaming everything from car engine troubles to a stubbed toe on the nebulous yet infamous "Patriarchy"...)
  • claudius 13y ago
    Clearly it is the fault of the patriarchy to make engines that women don’t want to service and to implement measures that no women are allowed in fire brigades and ambulance services. Hence it is also absolutely obvious that engine troubles and medical problems are due to the patriarchy. Oh wait, there aren’t any laws banning women from entering fire brigades and ambulance services or to take up apprenticeships in car workshops? Then it is obviously again the patriarchy’s fault to affect women in such a way that they don’t join those areas anyways.
  • theorique 13y ago
    start dropping the f-bomb repeatedly It means she's serious! and angry! Take her seriously! Now!
• theorique 13y ago
  That one, while passionate, feels too radical and just not connected to building allies. It reads as very "angry".