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I think sexism against women and misogyny are first-level kinds of injustice -- you can't divide people on a higher plane than gender. It's a clear prejudice that can be practiced openly even among family members within the four walls of a home. I laugh a bit that only the last few hundred of years are mentioned -- I think the hardships and second-class status of women has endured for a lot longer than a few hundred years.
Reparations and penalties are sometimes appropriate for individual acts of injustice -- that's what the legal sysytem is for in society -- but I believe when we are discussing broad classes of people, penalties and reparations are a step backwards. Education is the real tool for change.
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