The vast majority of countries that used to have this problem addressed it by abolishing the peerage entirely The idea that this is some difficult pie in the sky task and we need to make a gender neutral peerage as an intermediate step is fucking laughablehttps://twitter.com/SophieRunning/status/1327884125634703363 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
How many other countries have a peerage at all?
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Replying to @mssilverstein
That's the funny thing about this shit I'm not an expert on the peerage but England's peerage is known for being particularly sexist (purely agnatic primogeniture unless the monarch makes a special exception) But this doesn't actually matter very much
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein
Yeah, there's almost no examples of a Duchess inheriting her title in her own right in English history but several famous examples on the Continent (Eleanor of Aquitaine etc) But this didn't make Italy, Austria, France, Russia etc less sexist in general than England at all
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein
And all those suo jure duchesses vanished because one way or another those countries ended up abolishing the peerage and taking the duchy back for the people Which I guess we're supposed to be sad about? It reduced the total amount of Girl Power in the aristocracy?
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein
It's just fucking absurd that we're supposed to believe life actually gets better for women in general if you make it easier for a few dozen women who won a birth lottery to be gifted free wealth and power
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein
Peerage is silly, but if you're going to have it then it should be gender neutral. And as the republicans are not about to take over the UK, you take this (not especially important) win and move on.
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Replying to @jkfecke @arthur_affect
I wouldn't vote against it or anything, but it's not a great thing to spend any effort on, especially in an American magazine.
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Fecke is determined to have the most status-quo-loving possible take in any given situation, as far as i can tell, while still pretending to be a progressive.
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The main thing is that the implicit claim that making the peerage gender neutral is a logical intermediate step to dismantling it is false The support for a movement to allow aristocratic daughters to inherit just isn't there People don't care, and they're right not to care
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A movement to *get* people to care would, in fact, be diverting people's attitudes and energies in a dangerous direction People currently don't care because they don't think the Lords matter and they don't think they should matter Arguing this matters is arguing the HoL matters
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
By arguing for anything less than abolition they are essentially arguing FOR the legitimacy of the peerage as a ruling class. its rather shocking that ANYONE is ok with hereditary aristocracy in this day and age.
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