'Circumcision is a feminist plot to emasculate men.' 'Saudi is gynocentric coz the women are lazy bitches who exploit men economically' https://twitter.com/melliflora/status/850905565631057920 …
I suspect I have. She outlined it to me over the course of a couple of hours.
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The fact that you used the word "oppression" in your dismissal of a quote of hers makes me question how well you understand her position.
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I know she doesn't think oppression applies. I know she thinks there are different duties and privileges & it works in a complementary way.
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But this is completely irrelevant to my view on women's rights in history which I happen to know something about.
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There are a lot of very good analyses of the pros & cons of patriarchy for both sexes & how it played out in practice.
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I write about the ways in which women negotiated authority & autonomy for themselves within systems that ostensibly denied this.
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I know quite a lot about the burdens it placed on men too. For many couples it worked. For others it did not. Coz people vary.
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When looking at a system, we have to look not only at the best case scenarios but at the worst abuses it allowed for & then fix that.
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