Today's "You can never please a 3rd Wave Feminist Award" goes to the poor bugger overseeing Sweden's official Twitter account.pic.twitter.com/ZByykX1Ehm
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"...seen as helpmeets of men". What is the purpose of these men that women are helping them achieve?
Various. Women have a supportive role regardless. 'Behind every great man is a great woman' etc.
Supportive of what end?
Whatever the end is. I don't know what you mean.
I mean I doubt men go: "When I grow up, I want to shovel loads of coal. I hope a woman will help me achieve that goal".
I really don't know what you're getting at.
There's a socially conservative narrative that women support men. Men do things.Women give them nice homes to come back to
I would suggest that's actually the "progressive" gender theory narrative.
"Women are mothers wives & daughters" is only sexist if you add additional baggage to it. The statement itself is..
.. a true if mostly meaningless statement. Nothing about the statement itself implies subservience.
It does imply importance due to relationships to someone else but that works for men too.
It's an emotional argument ("You like your mother/sister/daughter -> care about women") but again, nothing about it...
.. suggests that women are lesser. The only way to get there w/o adding extra baggage is by assuming motherhood is subservience.
I'm with @HPluckrose on this one. Statement is harmless and true in itself but *not* the reason we should have equal rights.
We should have equal right because women are human beings. That's it. Marriage and motherhood irrelevant.
In fairness, I recognise that the statement is rarely meant to enforce traditional views.
Absolutely. Context needed to make that
Women are our wives, daughters and mothers! Men are our husbands, sons and fathers. (and scum / privileged)
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