(December 12, 2013 at 10:48 am)Esquilax Wrote: Is that a case of taking advantage, though? You're talking as though it was a conscious choice that women were making, when in reality the choice was made by men, on behalf of patriarchal ideas that feminism had no part in forming, and actively fight against.
No, I'm actually talking about cases where [some] women knowingly took advantage of this, despite it actually being rather detrimental in doing so. And the reason it arose as precisely because of feminist actions, not merely men.
Quote:You can't really fault women for taking part in a system they've only relatively recently had the power to change.
I'm not, I'm only really faulting women (not even women really, but a certain strain of sloppy feminist argumentation) that go for the rights, but bemoan the duties that comes with having certain rights (trying to have it both ways, in other words). For example, I've found it pretty shocking that it seems an oft-trumpted feminist (possibly extremist) thing to legally presume the guilt of the purported male rapist, often bolstered by the claim that most rapes go unreported so it is to be used as a sort of counter-balance.
