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History of Feminism

seabeyond

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17. i said i see it in different ways. and if allowed to really look at what is being suggested,

Reply to BainsBane (Reply #16)

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 12:04 AM

Sep 2013

then it is interesting.

at the point that we are discussing these issues, .... see, i do not think we are free to talk about this. i will shoot you an pm.

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The "good feminist" [View all] BainsBane Sep 2013 OP

If your support for equal rights depends on how softly someone speaks to you,... seabeyond Sep 2013 #1

"School Marms ??" Did someone actually say that ? I might as well say what's on my mind: BlueJazz Sep 2013 #2

Yes, someone said it BainsBane Sep 2013 #3

"I think they see their own privilege as more important than the social good as a whole" BlueJazz Sep 2013 #7

I'm so fricken old.... delrem Sep 2013 #4

oh, I talk softly all right - Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2013 #5

If my brief education in women and gender studies has taught me anything... Gravitycollapse Sep 2013 #6

number one is a given. but, ya know, that number two? seabeyond Sep 2013 #8

So do you disagree with #2? Gravitycollapse Sep 2013 #9

no. seabeyond Sep 2013 #11

I do BainsBane Sep 2013 #13

I am, indeed, a man. Which adds a very strange level of irony to most of my arguments. Gravitycollapse Sep 2013 #14

I think it's fine you are here BainsBane Sep 2013 #16

i said i see it in different ways. and if allowed to really look at what is being suggested, seabeyond Sep 2013 #17

That is sort of an inescapable issue with anything I think or say or suggest on the subject. Gravitycollapse Sep 2013 #18

I think the key is listening BainsBane Sep 2013 #19

Listening is probably the most fundamentally important aspect. Gravitycollapse Sep 2013 #23

what about respect? interesting, I need to think about #2 some more. thanks for that post. Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2013 #10

My philosophy on respect is give it to those who have earned it. Gravitycollapse Sep 2013 #12

yes, that is what I am getting at ... I have found that once I earn a man's repsect or any human for Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2013 #15

Very, very, painfully slowly. Gravitycollapse Sep 2013 #20

yes, that One Moment of lucidity, of clarity, of epiphany ... and then build on it. Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2013 #21

the fog is removed from their eyes. if only for a moment. seabeyond Sep 2013 #22

I so strongly agree with everything you've said in this thread. redqueen Sep 2013 #25

HeH! ismnotwasm Sep 2013 #24

This is why I pretty much stick to this group and the Feminists group. redqueen Sep 2013 #26

>> and fuck that! << so tired of it, too. redqueen. Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2013 #31

" Good Feminist " is like " Agreeable Dissident " orpupilofnature57 Sep 2013 #27

Well that was a laugh riot. redqueen Sep 2013 #28

That whole OP and a bunch of responses to it were just depressing. NuclearDem Sep 2013 #29

you are jsut right. it is no more than that. the men that came in to applaud are the very men that seabeyond Sep 2013 #30

It was obviously deliberate flame bait. NuclearDem Sep 2013 #32

as 95% of the posters easily recognized the flamebait, yet jury held. results. seabeyond Sep 2013 #33

That (miserable track record), and the fact that chervilant Sep 2013 #35

Exactly BainsBane Sep 2013 #34