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Squinch

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21. There is no gender to stupid. And I never thought of that as the co-opting of women's ability

Reply to CrispyQ (Reply #18)

Sat Oct 7, 2017, 02:48 PM

Oct 2017

to give birth. BUT OF COURSE IT IS!

Isn't it amazing when things stare you in the face all your life and then someone points them out?

Thanks for that one!

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Why do so many men think it's okay to discriminate against women's [View all] onecaliberal Oct 2017 OP

Because they don't want women to be autonomous human beings. They want to control them. SharonAnn Oct 2017 #1

Same reason Saudis didn't want women and drive and still won't give full personhood. SharonAnn Oct 2017 #2

It's been going on for thousands and thousands of years. lunatica Oct 2017 #3

Edit to delete white onecaliberal Oct 2017 #5

I just wonder how we will make it another 3 1/2 yrs marlakay Oct 2017 #4

Because they are men that choose to remain ignorant. Freethinker65 Oct 2017 #6

Because its about control cagefreesoylentgreen Oct 2017 #7

An interesting paper on the concept of forced pregnancy as slavery. CrispyQ Oct 2017 #17

Thank you! cagefreesoylentgreen Oct 2017 #20

When you're used to privilege, equality looks like oppression. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2017 #8

This! smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #13

Man created God to control woman. CrispyQ Oct 2017 #9

Very, very frightened men created God to control women. Squinch Oct 2017 #14

I find it interesting that even though men come into the world from women's bodies, CrispyQ Oct 2017 #18

There is no gender to stupid. And I never thought of that as the co-opting of women's ability Squinch Oct 2017 #21

Its a means to an end. procon Oct 2017 #10

So we're no further ahead in our OWN REPRODUCTIVE rights then Saudi Arabia a kennedy Oct 2017 #11

A better question to ask is why so many women feel the same way Major Nikon Oct 2017 #12

A better question is edhopper Oct 2017 #15

That is the $100,000 dollar question. onecaliberal Oct 2017 #16

Supremacists will be supremacists HAB911 Oct 2017 #19