The zeitgeist has changed, yes. Women are part of that.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Things change all of the time. Not always for the better. Particularly for women.
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Replying to @strump3t
Things have changed very much for the better for women. You might have to accept that we don't all agree with you about trans identity.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Better for some women and none of it is set in stone forever. We will never have universal agreement on many topics but when ideas can have such sweeping repercussions I expect people to defend them robustly with reasoned arguments.
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Replying to @strump3t
Yes, I was talking about the West where women have all the rights men do and a couple more in many places.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Legal rights do not always translate into equality as laws don't magically change people. What rights do women have that men don't and in which places?
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Replying to @strump3t
No, men and women still face gender-related expectations but we have the right to ignore them and I do tend to do this. The right to genital integrity and the right not to be drafted to war are right women have and men don't in many places.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Ignoring expectations based on being a man or woman only works if there is no impact. I can't just ignore losing a job if I get pregnant. Woman don't have a right not to be drafted. They are barred from joining many areas of the military. No idea what you mean by genital itegrity
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Replying to @strump3t
You can have the right to decide whether to get pregnant tho. And which of you, if either, takes time off to care for the baby. I mean that, in my country, and many others, female genital mutilation is illegal but male genital mutilation is not.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
FGM is far more damaging than circumcision. However if men want that banned, they need to organise and I will support them. Women are not standing in the way of that.
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At the same level, its still illegal. And men aren't standing in the way of criminalising FGM where that is legal. Women are more in favour of it. But it's an example of a right society thinks only women need.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Men across the world have more power than women, if men truely wanted to change rules on circumcision, they would. Men don't need to stand in the way of FGM legislation, they just need to not care as women have fewer opportunities to change laws.
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Replying to @strump3t
Many of them don't. Just as many women don't want abortion to be legal. This doesn't mean they aren't serious gendered issues tho. And men don't tend to have anything to do with FGM. It's seen as women's business.
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