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sibelian

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4. There's definitely an assymetry but it's a very peculiar, subtle one.

Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 08:21 PM

Mar 2013

It seems to me that the kind of adulthood that women "get" is actually thrust upon them somewhat unceremoniously, and it's a twisted, lopsided, not-very-grown-up kind of being a grown-up, even now. Men are supposed to prove themselves, but largely speaking the things they have to go through to do this proving aren't terribly taxing and once they've done the "proving" that's kind of it. They are acceptable.

If I was female I'd find it infuriating.

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I like being a guy. [View all] lumberjack_jeff Mar 2013 OP

I wish that you would have run this by me before you posted it. Swamp Lover Mar 2013 #1

There is. lumberjack_jeff Mar 2013 #2

most of the time I wish I wasn't human olddots Mar 2013 #3

There's definitely an assymetry but it's a very peculiar, subtle one. sibelian Mar 2013 #4

I think that asymmetry can be summarized in four words. lumberjack_jeff Mar 2013 #5

That's a single strand of the assymetry, jeff... sibelian Mar 2013 #6

There are a number of structural and social inequalities that derive from that basic first principle lumberjack_jeff Mar 2013 #8

Like all the "women and children first" legislation that gets passed tblue37 Mar 2013 #10

Abortion is an example. lumberjack_jeff Mar 2013 #11

"Women and children first" tells a lot about how much women are respected as well in our society. Dash87 Mar 2013 #7

I fully agree. n/t lumberjack_jeff Mar 2013 #9