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I just listened to the podcast and I have to disagree with
@rtraister when she says that getting power (for women) is hard. American women are not willing to give up what it wil take: husbands, home, family, children, femininity the things that make them “acceptable women”. -
It sounds radical and counter to what men can accomplish without sacrificing those. But for men their life revolves around getting the bread (money/power) and family is something they just happen to have as a badge to show off: look at my pretty wife and beautiful kids!
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Women function out of pure fear, fear of never being loved, fear of never getting married, never having kids, never having family, and when they get that they are too busy maintaining that. Keeping up, staying acceptable to their mother, friends and community - success is that.
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Women getting power is not hard, power is easy to get. But women don’t want it, they are so conditioned to believe that women should be a daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother and these are more important than anything else. Even our pol. leaders pander it on twtr profiles!
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I have yet to meet a single mother of a girl that doesn’t condition them to look for& be defined by family. Which mom says: don’t date, don’t marry just study, focus on career and pick up any ol guy, have a surrogate have your kids and get the guy to stay at home? No mother does!
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If women want real change, real power they will have to change themselves, waiting 100s of years for some sort of gradual change is not the answer. It’s sounds like a sacrifice only because we define it that way. It’s really not a big deal when everyone does it - actually easy.
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No one wants to try to start a movement that’s unpopular and no one will support. Even moms that want power don’t want ‘their daughters’ to be the ones to get it. We all wanna sit at home and not be the one to fish. Well the fishermen braving the rough seas are just that: men!
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