mirage01

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by mirage01 10y ago
What I'm saying is you're deflecting the responsibility of creating ideal feminist societies back onto women to make it palatable to you, which goes against anything I've ever learned about responsibility and accountability a
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by mirage01 10y ago
The goal is for women to be treated equally. That's on us, not them, and words like this being used on us are attempts to communicate that. They've been asking us for the equal environment for centuries. And if you honestly believ
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by mirage01 10y ago
I think one of the points of its colloquial usage is as a form of protest to force us to reflect on our culture. It's asking us to think about why the term bugs us, as well as how helpless it feels to be unable to stop being dismissed
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by mirage01 10y ago
> "People who claim that 'women earn 77 cents on the dollar as compared to men' - when studies overwhelmingly show that this is false when taking into consideration roles and hour etc. - are definitely 'dividing gende
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by mirage01 10y ago
I think we're waiting for you to present an argument that supports your statement that the US society isn't patriarchal.
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by mirage01 10y ago
I'd think if you were actually concerned with those suffering from oppression, you wouldn't rank their suffering in order of severity to determine what any of us should focus on first (as if we can only think about one thing at a
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by mirage01 10y ago
No one has to "attempt to divide the genders." Women have already been subjected to this in colonial and imperial countries for at least thousands of years. What you see as an "attempt at dividing" is more accurately the