"If you're not a Feminist, you're a Sexist"

[*Deidre*]

Some here might be interested to note that the most 'gender neutral' time period in terms of role playing, in all of history, was back during pre-Neanderthal times. Yep. Women and men pretty much just shared tasks, for the better of the community. It wasn't until many centuries later than men started dominating women in all areas of society, holding them back from education, voting, and government positions--insisting that they were nothing more than second class citizens only useful in terms of child bearing.

You've not accused me of saying this but it seems like every time I openly and honestly talk about this issue, others do. No matter how many times I reiterate "equality does not require interchangeability", no matter how many other posts I make about being pro-choice and pro-feminism, I find I'm quickly slammed with the straw man "oh, so you think women should just be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen then?"

You did not say this. I just felt the need to comment from past experience.

I actually just see you as chivalrous, and what is quite sad is that so many men lack that quality these days, that it stands out as anti-feminist or a put down even, to many women. I don't gather from your posts that you are against women having equality in the workplace, etc...but, you are of the opinion that chivalry isn't dead, and I happen to agree.

Again, it's a dying artform in our society perhaps because men are confused as to what women want or expect from them. I think technology has also blurred the male/female component a bit, in terms of how we speak to each other through texting, on sites such as these, etc. If I were to remove usernames and pictures, I'd wonder if I was talking to a woman or a man, sometimes. Technology is great in many ways, but it has cheapened the way men and women converse, and thus offline, men talk to women as if they were men. I see it all the time. There are a lot of mitigating factors that have caused the decline of chivalry in our society, so much so, that many women interpret it as demeaning or insulting.

That could be why you receive those 'reactions' at times, because feminism has become synoymous in many people's eyes as women want to 'be' like men. Treated like men.

And that's not why feminism originated in the first place.

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Some here might be interested to note that the most 'gender neutral' time period in terms of role playing, in all of history, was back during pre-Neanderthal times. Yep. Women and men pretty much just shared tasks, for the better of the community.

Pre-neanderthal times? When is that? How long ago was that? How do you know what pre-neanderthal time human society was like? How do you know they shared tasks?

I've read archaeological articles that have suggested this.

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Bolded by me--that is an epic statement ...may I use it in my signature? (being serious) That just struck me funny reading it today.

Go ahead.

I'm flattered.

haha Done!