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RE: An interesting view of female privilege.
January 21, 2012 at 9:18 pm
And I'm an anti-feminist and an anti-masculist. Because I don't think that enforcing equity is the answer... if it's being forced then I want nothing to do with it.
I'm an anti-traditionalist... equity would be nice, sure, but only if it happens on its own.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: An interesting view of female privilege.
January 21, 2012 at 10:28 pm
@padraic:
It might not be typical where you come from, or in Muslim countries, but in the UK (and I believe in the USA as well) the mother almost always gets priority over the children.
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RE: An interesting view of female privilege.
January 21, 2012 at 11:25 pm
I appreciate her willingness to cop to the ways in which efforts to compensate for historic patterns of male privilege have resulted in injustice to males. She is a true advocate for fairness.
One area where I still worry for women is their personal safety. It may be that more women are learning to defend themselves but I think women out walking alone draw more attackers than males do. I walk my dogs in less developed areas a lot. I'm not sure I'd feel safe doing so if I was a woman.