So, about this whole "Wives and Daughters" thing. For context, the progressive (a-ka Lakoff's "Nurturant Family") position is that…
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Lastly, the conservative position puts certain implications on "our wives" etc. that others don't. It is by no means a consensus.
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So imagine Dudeman, who cares very much for his wife and daughter while having progressive views. Then...
"STOP CALLING THEM THAT!"
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. Exactly. It's very "someone is wrong on the internet", which I find quite absurd for a movement that espouses empathy.
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eh, you father-husband-Christian folks have always been reluctant with progress
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I mean to say, plenty of people would say "my wife, daughter" etc. indicatively, not possessively. "This woman here."
And I am as far from Christian as you can get, am not married and very much love my daughter w/o possessiveness. :)
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Besides which, even if I were, would it suddenly be a bad thing if I opposed rape? I hardly think so.
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