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In reply to the discussion: Are women in the 2012 United States a minority group? [View all]Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)149. Good point. I'm baffled by some DUers' desire to use the word "minority".
It's perfectly fine to raise and debate issues where you believe women are unfairly treated. And I am the first to agree that the female majority in the United States has some legitimate issues to complain about.
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Does the fact that history is full of examples of oppressed majorities make the question
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2012
#1
In that the numerical minority oppressed him due to his majority status....
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2012
#34
Oppression enforced by denying the vote to the majority group is qualitiatively different.
lumberjack_jeff
Jan 2012
#40
So if women here don't suffer like blacks under Apartheid they don't qualify as oppressed majority?
Zalatix
Jan 2012
#78
Saddam's Sunni party was the dominant political group, but minority religious in Iraq
riderinthestorm
Jan 2012
#93
Do any of the oppressed majorities in your examples enjoy electoral dominance?
lumberjack_jeff
Jan 2012
#119
No, which is why sociologically they are considered "minorities". Just like women in the US.
riderinthestorm
Jan 2012
#152
You clearly misunderstood. Women enjoy electoral dominance by virtue of casting most of the votes.
lumberjack_jeff
Jan 2012
#155
I notice that when you gave that substantial answer, the OP stopped engaging you
CreekDog
Jan 2012
#145
"future progress would involve women not having a market for selling sex or having equal access to
EOTE
Jan 2012
#91
Sure, spend all the time at Chippendales that you want, I'm not going to stop you.
EOTE
Jan 2012
#185
No one suggested a 'similarity' to apartheid. It was used as an example of a majority
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2012
#44
To the extent that women face barriers, it isn't just men putting them in place
lumberjack_jeff
Jan 2012
#182
I'd say ask the Native American woman who faces all those barriers and then also
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2012
#20
Thank you for taking the two things I put in the list of serious inequalities ...
frazzled
Jan 2012
#88
Yes. A group having little power or representation relative to other groups within a society.
justiceischeap
Jan 2012
#7
I'm inclined to accept that the expectation that I'm a fully functioning adult is a privilege.
lumberjack_jeff
Jan 2012
#104
ha ha ha. women get higher education because men are acting to protect them? DERP!
bettyellen
Jan 2012
#172
How can the minority Tea Party hold so much power over politics the last two years?
justiceischeap
Jan 2012
#89
Nice, I haven't heard the "Obama's primary voters are sexists" meme in a while.
hughee99
Jan 2012
#46
I still stand behind the assertion that the nation wasn't ready to elect
justiceischeap
Jan 2012
#101
Sure. 2b-A group having little power or representation relative to other groups within a society.
pampango
Jan 2012
#9
Could you send that stroke of genius to every sociologist in the world please?
redqueen
Jan 2012
#28
2b: the f/m ratio of Senators, Representatives, Presidents, and Supreme Court Justices.
eShirl
Jan 2012
#30
Absolutely. And in no topic of discussion is this more blatant than this one.
lumberjack_jeff
Jan 2012
#43
Why don't you also educate us about all the ways white people are disadvantaged?
redqueen
Jan 2012
#60
Apparently there's room in that closet for the amazing Kreskin too. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Jan 2012
#77
Point taken. I know the words you use, but have little assurance you know their definition.
lumberjack_jeff
Jan 2012
#128
There was a southern senator in 1861 whop was against the expansion of slavery too.
LanternWaste
Jan 2012
#123
Here is an example of how equality is measured by those grinding this particular axe.
lumberjack_jeff
Jan 2012
#136
A group having little power or representation relative to other groups within a society
LanternWaste
Jan 2012
#126
Yes, but they are given minority status, so under the law they are treated as a minority.
Liquorice
Jan 2012
#143
arguably an oppressed majority, but not a minority. south african black during aparthied were never
arely staircase
Jan 2012
#148
well it is natural to associate the word with historically oppressed groups because they usually are
arely staircase
Jan 2012
#158