And a lot of it is cultural but a lot of it was economic and legal, from male-only inheritance down to anti-abortion legislation today.
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I enjoy laughing at pick me culture, but truly that attitude is the result of centuries of men manipulating women 2 manufacture dependence.
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We can see from the Pick Mes how dependent men are on women feeling like they have to do anything and everything to have a man.
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Can you imagine the untold ways men---even good men---benefit, in everything from emotional labor to child rearing to sexual coercion?
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But also we can see from the mockery of pick mes how social punishment arising organically from the community in question...
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and directed at members of that community, can be a part of dismantling an oppressive structure.
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The pull of liberation + the "push" of "don't be a pick me."
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Anyway, probably all obvious and certainly no one needed me to say that but just a thought that crossed my mind.
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