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I wish I could show you the world from a woman's perspective, or at least that of an imperfect approximation such as myself.
Thread. https://twitter.com/ArbaazMahmood/status/1198206854263967744
Thread. https://twitter.com/ArbaazMahmood/status/1198206854263967744
You're talking about social & political policy on paper. The lived reality of so many women doesn't reflect that. And you can't legislate every problem out of existence. There's more to human existence than can be covered by any set of laws.
Some countries, on paper, have it better than others when it comes to gender and sex. Doesn't mean women's complete liberation from male oppression can be defined in finite terms. You solve one form of misogyny, another pops up.
Women have suffered millennia of oppression. A few obscenely rich women in positions of relative power isn't going to reverse that.
You talk about STEM, dripping with the privilege of someone who will never know what it's like to be treated as either an heroic pioneer
You talk about STEM, dripping with the privilege of someone who will never know what it's like to be treated as either an heroic pioneer
or attention seeking upstart just because you like something that your gender is seen as unsuited for.
The barriers women face into entering STEM education are still very much alive in European countries and elsewhere. This is despite the fact that girls are outperforming
The barriers women face into entering STEM education are still very much alive in European countries and elsewhere. This is despite the fact that girls are outperforming
boys academically.
You talk about descriptors men and women choose differently but you don't seem tohave acknowledged, at all, that it's hardly surprising given how different the grooming & upbringing of boys & girls is.
You talk about descriptors men and women choose differently but you don't seem tohave acknowledged, at all, that it's hardly surprising given how different the grooming & upbringing of boys & girls is.
It's not smaller size that changes women at puberty. I'm not actually a woman and yet I was 9 give or take a year when suddenly the outside world became so different & I started getting catcalled. Of course that makes you hypervigilant.
Not because of babies and all that jazz, but because that's the reality of this world. Men beat, rape and kill women. Misogynistic violence doesn't even care if she's actually a woman or not. Going out, you cannot imagine the fear I feel. All because
it will still be somehow my fault if some man has trouble keeping to in his pants. Again. I can't trust men not to be misogynistic arsewipes. I don't have the luxury to walk out at night without getting tense everytime I walk past a man. To see a man mansplaining why I have to
inconvenience myself so often because men are raised to be trash, is frankly offensive.
It's not that men can't care for children, for example. They're shamed by society if they do & why bother when the woman already does that? Oh but the kiddy will still carry his name even tho
It's not that men can't care for children, for example. They're shamed by society if they do & why bother when the woman already does that? Oh but the kiddy will still carry his name even tho
his contribution to the kid's birth was over in a few disappointing minutes.
You men have confined women to be the sole caregivers for everyone for millennia & then you have the gall to theorise over why women see themselves as caring. You have convinced yourselves that they're
You men have confined women to be the sole caregivers for everyone for millennia & then you have the gall to theorise over why women see themselves as caring. You have convinced yourselves that they're
the weaker sex & then act surprised when they've internalised that horseshite & don't see themselves as strong.
I could go on &the belligerent prick in me gladly would but this might be all new & exciting as you fall further and further into the manosphere/alt right conservatism
I could go on &the belligerent prick in me gladly would but this might be all new & exciting as you fall further and further into the manosphere/alt right conservatism
rabbit hole but to me I've had these same unrewarding conversations for years. You've convinced yourself that the feminazis are evulll, Emotional⢠women who want to establish the Matriarchy (which will of course fail since lol wiminz) & I can't talk you out of that.
I don't know what suddenly happened. I don't know why you're going where you're headed but I suppose it's your life to live as you see fit.
I'm sure you'll find a cohort of enthusiastic women supporters to further validate your dissent into bio-essentialist misogyny
I'm sure you'll find a cohort of enthusiastic women supporters to further validate your dissent into bio-essentialist misogyny
but I'm afraid my TL is my safe space and refuge from the misogynistic world outside.
Pity I thought you were one of those rare paki men on the internet who don't have a kneejerk fear of feminism (something something fragile masculinity) but oh well.
Pity I thought you were one of those rare paki men on the internet who don't have a kneejerk fear of feminism (something something fragile masculinity) but oh well.
