If Pence's working world were genuinely 50/50 divided by the sexes his Rule would be impractical, if female-dominated, impossible
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His Rule relies on his workplace being male-dominated and helps enforce it continuing to be
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Think of all the jobs where a married woman in a male-dominated field literally could not follow the Rule - say, a soldier on deployment
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This is the exact argument used to push against women "invading" male spaces, all the time
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I don't want to hear about "Pence has women on his staff so it's not that big a deal" - how many high-ranking, closely trusted staffers?
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Would this rule be practical if most of Trump's Cabinet officials were women? If Pence were VP to a woman President?
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Yeah no shit there's plenty of societies where Pence's rule is the norm - and, shockingly, they're generally shitty for women
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Maybe in theory you could impose normative homosociality without patriarchy but we all know what "separate but equal" becomes irl
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And holy fuck is this discourse straight as hell. Too bad this ancient wisdom doesn't apply to ppl without a clearly defined Safe gender
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Sorry bi/pan people, guess you can't socialize with any human beings at all once you're married
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This is part of the root of homophobia btw, ppl whose worldview depends on "safe spaces" free of sexuality who flip when that's challenged
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Who rely on the idea that an all-male space is "safe" and find the idea that sexual attraction could exist there deeply unsettling
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I mean it's not like stridently self-identifying heterosexuals have ever cheated w a member of the same sex, right
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