Originally posted by Beour3rd
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There are almost no feminists writing laws. Only 25% of women identify as feminist, about half that for men, which means that, at best, 13% of Congress are feminists. There are some feminists suggesting laws, and it is the most extreme suggestions that have been written into law, but that's exactly the point:
If you wanted to discredit a movement, what better way than to only present the most extreme representatives of it, and implement their suggestions in such a way as to guarantee negative consequences, which will then be blamed on the movement you want to discredit?
It wasn't "feminists" who passed these laws, it was angry old men who thought, "OK, they want equality, we'll set it up to backfire, they will get blamed for the mess, and everyone will want to go back to the way things were."
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I don't like the old system, and I don't like the new system. I want something different, that is fair for everyone. Many feminists agree, and they should be our natural allies against the (possible majority of) feminists who disagree, as well as the people who don't care about gender, but want to take rights from all of us and men were just the thin end of the wedge.
Look at this election: We've got Pure Evil and a real life version of Homer Simpson (if Homer Simpson had been born a multi-millionaire). That's the impression people have, now: Women are evil and men are stupid.
Neither of those are, necessarily, true, and the big problem with suggesting that it is is that PEOPLE TAKE IT AS AN EXCUSE TO ACT THAT WAY!
This is not going in a good direction, for anyone.
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