If sometimes I hold the gun and sometimes you hold the gun, we'll eventually come to a gun-free truce.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @parks_dept and
If you hold the gun every time, I will probably get shot every time and we will never move towards no-shooting peace.
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In other words, yes, it is less bad when feminists have the gun, because feminists are acting counter-hegemonically.
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Humans are humans. Our interests diverge, and we suck. We're always going to exercise power against each other.
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The question is not "do we exercise power" but "how is that power balanced between groups?" /thread.
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Who is exercising power against feminists and in what manner? This is a retreat to rhetoric for a lack of real world examples
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A great example I just learned today on this thread: in some states, if CPS is called for suspicion of abuse by any adult in the home...
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The mother is charged first, regardless of who was suspected of the abuse.
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Maybe you'll say that's women, not feminists? But feminists are fighting for women, so.
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Also women experience intimate partner violence at far higher rates, sexual violence at far higher rates, wage discrimination...
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I just... how is that not an exercise of power?
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