When we pursue equality for women, we are responding to massive and relatively recent material changes...
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that have occurred basically only in this species and basically only in the last 200 years.
The power imbalance between men and women in America is, imo, less than the power imbalance between, say, blacks and whites.
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but the racist ideas we are trying to undo are the wholly contingent result of racist choices made 3-500 years ago.
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the sexist ideas we are trying to undo are the probabilistic choices of most human societies over thousands of years.
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