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In reply to the discussion: Yes, I am a Feminist. Deal. With. It. [View all]Skidmore
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Are you saying that mysogyny does not exist because you have not read it in the right book to satisfy your definition of sourcing?
I also find curious the notion of a generation "indoctrinated with these ideas." When you agitate now for change in response to social or economic injustice, do you consider conveying those ideas to be "indoctrination" of someone else? We fought and continue to fight very real battles for equality on many fronts, from the right to reproductive choice to the right to equal pay to the right to justice for crimes against us. You are only about 7 or 8 years younger than me. I so remember trying to find my first job out of high school and being limited to the "Women's Jobs" section of the classified ads. I remember needing my husband's permission to get a credit card. I was 18 when oral contraceptives became available, and they were available only to married women. I remember a lot of subtle and not so subtle messages in society about my place in it, and those messages came early in life. We fought these fights before and now we are fighting them again. We fought them for our mothers who didn't have choice and for out daughters.
Hopefully, I am misreading what you have written. If I have, my apologies. I hope that you have room in your worldview for the very real inequality of women here and in the world and the need for a feminist viewpoint.