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History of Feminism

ismnotwasm

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14. Yeah

Reply to redqueen (Reply #12)

Wed Apr 24, 2013, 03:46 PM

Apr 2013

The thing is if I posted something like that elsewhere, I'd get an argument about serial killers, sidestepping the core causes of objectification and misogyny. I'd have to defend the strawman argument that would be created.

Men will objectify without understanding how ugly it really is, women will claim 'choice' and autonomy in being objectified. And I know---I know--how wrong and deadly this is. The disconnect *is* probably ego-protective, but dammit; it's such bullshit.

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The Importance of Men Seeing Women as Human Beings [View all] redqueen Feb 2013 OP

I've come to believe that with most people, seeing things from a different perspective CrispyQ Feb 2013 #1

And we all grow up so immersed in this... redqueen Feb 2013 #2

I think that's why it generally has to be personal before people see things differently. CrispyQ Feb 2013 #3

and that is about the only thing seabeyond Feb 2013 #5

"Men are part of the solution," on the one hand we have some men that want to be able to dehumanize seabeyond Feb 2013 #4

+1000 smirkymonkey Mar 2013 #6

hey smirkey... seabeyond Mar 2013 #7

Thanks seabeyond! smirkymonkey Mar 2013 #9

Great post,Redqueen. nt sufrommich Mar 2013 #8

Just read about the rapist in a Michigan high school who was protected and his victims ignored. redqueen Apr 2013 #10

i just read about the florida girl that was gang raped and now being verbally britulized seabeyond Apr 2013 #13

This is a continuum ismnotwasm Apr 2013 #11

"why people can't see this I'll never know" redqueen Apr 2013 #12

Yeah ismnotwasm Apr 2013 #14

that is why i was impressed with kurdian men protesting a judge that had a man dress as a woman seabeyond Apr 2013 #15