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In reply to the discussion: One in three women suffers violence, WHO global study finds [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)if A then B
not B
therefore not A
in this case A is "women's lives do not matter"
Since, my nieces. my sisters, my mom, my aunt are all women (except the niece who is only 12) then that would imply
B "my nieces', my sisters', my mom's lives do not matter"
B is false, therefore Not B.
therefore A is false as well, or Not A.
Irregardless of what you think you read in my post.
If I am dismissive of anything, it is not of the real problems that women face, it is of this "sex war" frame of "females = victims" and "men = oppressors". Yes, I do reject that. I think the real conflict in our society is not men vs. women, it is more like "all vs. all". It's women vs. women, women vs. men, men vs. women and men vs. men. To pretend that only one of those battles is happening, to narrow your focus to just one thing, and want to exclude all other concerns, is, in my view, not true to the real world. It is not so much, "what about the men?" as it is "what about the big picture?" To look at the big picture is not to dismiss any victim, it is to include all victims. To include male victims does not mean that "female victims do not matter" or "male victims are more important than female victims", it is simply to say that "male victims should matter too".