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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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.
It depends who's making it. I spend a lot of time talking to religious conservatives who'd limit women to the home.
There are plenty of those. I don't hear them say that in defence of equal rights though.
IMO, when used to justify equal rights the "wifes and mothers" statement is usually in good faith.
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