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redqueen

(115,186 posts)
6. Not that you asked me, :P
Mon May 7, 2012, 12:17 PM
May 2012

but IMO we need more people to speak up, men and women. It's too easy to just go along to get along. It seems to me that many people just keep quiet to avoid looking like a prude, pearl-clutching humorless 'bad' kind of feminist.

That only helps those who work so very hard to push the idea that anyone who disagrees is some 'paleo-feminist' who deserves to be mocked, scorned and ignored. Silence is helping them to promote their views as the socially approved (and therefore somehow implicitly correct, despite all the history of former socially approved bullcrap) ones.

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damn. in one of my Ops i was going to say.... some men. the author said men seabeyond May 2012 #1
owning B****. hm. here is more. " I was too cowardly to speak up" seabeyond May 2012 #2
Yes... but likewise when women laugh alongside men's use of such horrific terms/objectifcation... hlthe2b May 2012 #3
"being allowed into the group" again, true that seabeyond May 2012 #5
Not that you asked me, :P redqueen May 2012 #6
Yup... hlthe2b May 2012 #7
Other than simply making the most of teachable moments, redqueen May 2012 #8
"But there is one stark and tangible difference in how the world responds to me"... Little Star May 2012 #4
I was thinking about that, too. Based on what he wrote, he has just started to "pass" BlueIris May 2012 #10
Jesus Christ. #2 is vile. (Graphic warning for this post.) BlueIris May 2012 #9
How dare we point out MadrasT May 2012 #11
As promised in post #11 MadrasT May 2012 #12
Summarizes fairly well why the very concept of 'gender' is absolute bullshit. redqueen May 2012 #13
ok, so i am good. and right. i listened to the interview seabeyond May 2012 #14
ex. quit screaming like a girl.... seabeyond May 2012 #15
Society works so hard to force these differences on us. redqueen May 2012 #16
However, women (and girls) are not allowed to be angry. MadrasT May 2012 #17
anger is the only emotion men are allowed by society... one emotion...negatively in women. seabeyond May 2012 #18
goes along with this subthread. world blaming eve and the preacher blaming women.... seabeyond May 2012 #19
sorry... more. further, seabeyond May 2012 #20
I agree that MadrasT May 2012 #21
maybe some men end up fixating on sex because it is the ONLY WAY seabeyond May 2012 #22
To be fair MadrasT May 2012 #23
Self Made Man sounds like a great book. BlueIris May 2012 #25
Going to have a Wife named Rosey One_Life_To_Give May 2012 #24
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