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In reply to the discussion: Yes, I am a Feminist. Deal. With. It. [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)1. Do misogynists exist? Er, of course.
2. Is misogyny built into our social institutions and mores?
Although I would tone that back as, to me, misogyny is too strong a word. All misogynists are sexists, but not all sexists raise to the level of misogynists.
1. Do sexists exist? Of course
2. Is sexism built into our social institutions and mores?
First, let me say, whether it is believable or not, that I am against sexism and discrimination. And I do not deny that they exist.
The question is, do they translate into advantages for me, into privileges? When I was a part time janitor, my department head, three steps above me, was female, and so was my boss's boss.
So I am supposed to believe that I, a part time janitor am part of a "privileged group" and that my department head is part of an "oppressed group"?
Maybe a lot changed in those seven or eight years, but also nothing you mention seems particularly onerous. You needed your husband's signature to get a credit card? After five years in business in a small town, I needed a co-signer to get my first auto loan. That was in 1996 and it may have been my friend's wife who signed. Why not? She was a teacher making about 3 times my income. And the banker processing the loan? A woman as well. But I am the privileged one.
Sorry, gotta go with Fogarty on this. It ain't me.
As for "indoctrinated." Well, if young people who don't know any better are taught something that I think is wrong, why wouldn't I call it indoctrination?