Seriously though, I find it frightening that the idea of equality is held in such poor regard, and is so poorly understood. How can you not support feminism? It's like saying you don't support equality for people of colour. We are for Justice and Mercy, and Truth and Peace, and true Freedom. Edward Burroughs 1659
(But then again my girlfriend and her friends made the inside pages of the Guardian ten years ago heckling some academics for not being feminist enough at a conference. so I'm probably not the best person to ask either) Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.
Why would anyone find anyone even remotely interesting who wasn't interested in being equal?
I really haven't the faintest idea, but trust me, they're out there.
How could someone honestly think, yeah, I'm OK with women not being paid the same for the same work, and I don't think women really need the same educational opportunities as men, and I don't think domestic violence is wrong, and in fact I just really think that women are less important than men and it doesn't really matter what happens to them.
I especially don't get that woman in the video who said something along the lines of I guess a feminist is someone who supports equal rights for women, and then the interviewer asked if she connsidered herself one, and she said no. Because, you know, women should be inferior, which is exactly what her husband said next, essentially.
And my view is that if you don't consider yourself a feminist, then that's basically saying that you think women are and should be inferior to men, and I just don't get how anybody can think that way. I mean, I think that attitude, and that kind of inequality, are actually bad for men, too. But I really don't get why a woman would think that.
It is essentially saying that it'd OK for half of humanity to be considered less-human than the other half, and not entitled to the same rights. And it's one thing (still unacceptable, but not as unimaginable) for someone to think that way when they're in the privileged half, but I just don't get why someone would think that way when they're not.
Sigh.
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It boggled the mind, because here were more or less outwardly liberated women seeking to be acculturated into submission.
I couldn't watch more than 30 seconds of it, but Barbara sat through a longer spell, in sick fascination I suppose. Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
This reminds me a little of this good friend of mine who on the one hand can't seem to meet interesting guys for a long term relationship, and on the other since she lives in SoCal, thinks a boob job may be in order to meet that someone special. Go figure.
Another one I couldn't stand more than 30 seconds of. Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?