ext_3887 ([identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] seal 2009-08-12 10:20 pm (UTC)

FB is so ill suited for most intelligent debate, so it's probably just as well you didn't waste your significant intelligence on arguing there. I wish the wave of misogyny was just in the states, but unfortunately it's all over the first world sphere. The "complications" seem to partially be that the guys (and gals) who are anti feminist claim that equality is here already and that feminism is an oppressive force. Also that females have innate qualities which are to blame for certain things being unequal, and thus it's really as it should. I simplify, because usually these arguments are dressed up in academic language, but still.

One curiosity is that an overwhelming majority of people having these opinions are anti-left politically. I would very much like to perform some real statistical inquiries, but this is my observation so far. Just like when, on political forums, the guys who speak up saying that accusations of racist behavior against someone is "race-baiting" and that white people also are "oppressed" because they don't always get first place, and that minorities getting special treatment in progressive programs is unfair to the mainstream populace, all these guys are unfailingly some form of libertarians or republicans.

Pattern recognition getting the best of me here, but I can't ignore it anymore, it's so blatant.

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