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an anecdote on the existence of inequality between the sexes? i propose a fairly easy to conduct and very practical experiment, although this one is for the male readers and is more based on negative social attitudes rather than economics. go to any clothing or charity store and purchase [or ask a friend or two of roughly the same stature and build to borrow from them] an item of clothing (something plain and simple that others of the same age as yourself might wear) that hangs freely from the waist down and doesn't join between the legs, although for the purpose of this experiment we're going to exclude a specific subset of... (read more)
on the header image - yes, it has male/female characters in different roles, but i can think critically and understand that the culture it's coming from was biased and thus ignore giving any kind of credence to the metaphors behind the literal representation it offers.
on the question "Would you personally ever consider dating a woman who had sold sexual favors?". yes, i would as i don't see anything wrong with the practice, as long as it's consensual.
on "If you call yourself a Communist I will point out that you are choosing a label identified most strongly with mass murderers, and if you call yourself a Christian, one identified with warmongering anti-rationalists. Doing... (read more)
Doh, how did that ' get there.. ;)
"I really don't think that in the modern world we need a label for "someone who believes in equal rights for men and women" any more than we need a label for "someone who thinks that we shouldn't have slavery" outside of the Muslim world."
Michael; Are you talking about legal rights or social attitudes?
In some countries, one can maybe argue that the job of liberal feminism is done as that see's the solution to gender equality through political and legal reform, although if you look at the reality of the situation the even the UK, this becomes an untenable argument as of yet.
Social attitudes are the more interesting part for me as that's where the psychological bias exists. Even certain items of clothing such as skirts are still seen as fit for only the female sex! Ohoh, except for kilts that is...
Oh, no, I stand corrected. I must admit I skipped reading the lower half of the comments but my ctrl-f on 'radical', 'liberal' and 'wave' weirdly didn't show any results. Anyway.
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I'm of the opinion that genders are simply a personality stereotype and that there should be no expectations or assumptions made between gender, sex and sexuality. This links in with existentialist/radical feminist (careful there, there's a variety of forms of radical feminism out there) and queer theory thoughts on the social constructs of gender. Apart from my leanings towards existentialist thought, the main empirical arguments I use for this are a) that the definitions of masculine and feminine are so different through the world and have changed so much throughout the history of mankind that they're pretty worthless terms and b) the existence of transgendered/transsexual persons shows that you can get the... (read more)
"Men's rights are 100 years behind women's rights?"
not legal rights, that is unless we're specifically talking about a man's right to wear a skirt at his place of work and not get fired for it, but right in as far as what society in general sees as accepting for a man to do without stigma (or women in the case of going topless in public, although that's still prohibited by law in many places). equality is more than just legal rights, although they're still required before societal change can happen in regards to ironing out irrationalities in how people treat the different sexes.