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In reply to the discussion: This Gender War bullshit at DU must stop [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)but the promotion of gender equality and challenging ingrained societal attitudes toward things like gender roles and sexual objectification? That's just as much of a "progressive" cause as challenging homophobia and racism. Or it should be, anyway. These issues aren't just about media representations; they're bound up with a lot of other things that are all part of the same underlying cultural ideas. Pervasive sexual objectification is reflected in things like street harassment of women, in acquaintance rape, in the retrograde idea that the only value women have is as sexual objects and as wives and mothers (which is just an extension of sexuality).
The tension isn't between fellow progressives, it's between progressives and reactionaries. "We" are not all on the same side on many issues.