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When movies show a traditional gender roles world (like, historically or culturally), and then the women rise up and Do Feminism, I just don't buy it. I was raised in a super traditional gender roles world and I didn't see a single woman around me Doing Feminism.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Mar 9, 2020

Like, not even whispers in woman-only tea parties. The closest you'd get was a woman going "oh he cheated on you? That's actually biblical grounds for divorce you know".

Aella

@Aella_Girl

Mar 9, 2020

Women did not believe they were chafing under the oppression of men, there was no sense of being enslaved. They all were participatory, unchallenging. Sometimes it sucked, but they'd shrug and be like, "Well, we're women, this is what it's like, what did you expect?

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What were traditional female roles in the 90s when you were raised? Not touching the remote?

Aella

@Aella_Girl

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@iamjimmyo

We were expected to become stay-at-home-housewives and a lot of our childhood was training for that. We were homeschooled so we wouldn't have exposure to other weird stuff. We were explicitly and regularly told women were less brave, rational, and deserving of respect.

5:34 PM · Mar 9, 2020

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Cults can make ppl believe nearly anything if they separate from larger society. But out in the mainstream, it has not been like that for generations. * *In the First World.