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In reply to the discussion: Battle of the Sexists [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)You're presenting an argument no-one has actually made in order to make some sort of point that has nothing to do with any of the recent discussions around gender issues. What I've seen of the arguments around the issue has centred on corrosive and ingrained societal attitudes toward male/female interaction in public spaces, the idea that women in public spaces invite unwanted masculine attention and unsought interaction by their presence and femininity, that the idea of some heterosexual males that women are there as objects for their visual enjoyment is normative and acceptable, and the idea that it's somehow wrong and insulting for women to characterise such unwanted male attention as creepy and threatening. That has been what all of this has been about; there are larger issues behind this, but none of them have anything to do with "matriarchy".