It'd be easier if you just watched it than for me to try to explain via twitter. Radical ideas and concision don't mix well, unfortunately.
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Replying to @melliflora
I'm not going to watch a 30 minute MRA video on whether women were historically oppressed. I have studied this in a bit more depth for yrs.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I've never heard an analysis like the one in Karen Straughan's video anywhere else. And, I think it's likelier than not that you haven't.
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Replying to @melliflora
I suspect I have. She outlined it to me over the course of a couple of hours.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @melliflora
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @melliflora
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @melliflora
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @melliflora
I write about the ways in which women negotiated authority & autonomy for themselves within systems that ostensibly denied this.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @melliflora
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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