Conversation

Aella
@Aella_Girl
I'm increasingly coming to think that the 'people don't take sexism against women seriously' vs 'no women are privileged and dramatic' are both true, but depend on what subculture you're in. I wish all arguments about this were prefaced with 'in some worlds...'
26
Likes
Chad Miller
@TastyChad
Replying to
@Aella_Girl
So you're suggesting that when making sweeping value judgments we don't try and group as many people as we can into an amorphous blob based on an arbitrary trait, belief, and/or physical appearance? That's crazy talk! How would we block out our moments of creeping self-doubt?
Martin
@Kind_Geek
Replying to
@Aella_Girl
How is that different from prefacing everything with "some people believe"? Because "some people believe X" does not imply that the truth of X is subjective. *Some* people believe that the earth is flat & 6000 years old. Those people are wrong.
1
Dr. Poop Muscles, PhD
@Space_Boy_Ben
Replying to
@Aella_Girl
"More than one in eight women, nearly 16.3 million, lived in poverty in 2016. Poverty rates were particularly high for Black women (21.4 percent), Latinas (18.7 percent) and Native women (22.8 percent)..."
nwlc.org
Women and Poverty, State by State - National Women's Law Center
About one in eight women – just under 16 million – lived in poverty in 2017. Poverty rates were particularly high for Black women (21.1 percent), Native women (20.3 percent), and Latinas (18.1...
1