I mean, legally we're there but I like looking at gender issues & cultural norms & my bias is towards looking at how they affect women.
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But the reality I am faced with is feminists doing this crazily & almost no-one looking at issues faced by men, that it feels self-indulgent
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If everyone could just stop being nuts for five minutes, that would be great. Actually, I'd probably go back to the medieval period then.
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Not literally, obviously. No time machine. I mean do history again & look at women's places in society & how they made themselves heard.
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I really resent being positioned on the side against the alleged defenders of women's rights, freedom & dignity. I don't belong on that side
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I'm in quite good company mostly. Nearly everyone else seen as the enemy of feminism is far from being an enemy to women. But still...
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Politically, I was always a feminist focused on women's experiences and roles. Academically, I study women's experiences & roles.
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Now, I am regularly asked why I hate women, why I want women to be beaten, raped, abused & oppressed &then told its coz I want to please men
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Coz obviously that's what men want too. It's just so dark, so ugly, so royally fucked up, so bloody far from the truth, it makes me despair.
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I need to not spend a whole day immersed in this. When I go into the real world, I find men & women liking, respecting & loving each other.
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There are billions of people. And the ones who often have the most time to argue aren't always the best to speak with.
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Being able to dissect philosophy or politics in depth takes studying & time which means the people who haven't done that yet, have more time
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To tweet. Unless it's their job and even then having a conversation like this over Twitter is never going to move people forward
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Oh it does! That's why I do it! I'm about to give a talk about this & when I have I will write it up. Why we need to use Twitter etc more.
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Not sure how often you change the minds of people u argue with but certain you help some of the 'audience' develop their ideas/views
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This is a bit like saying you wish free speech were everywhere honored, even (and especially) in its most repugnant forms.
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Which is to say, these sorts of things are endless.
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