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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Strange Famous: If you don't see any malice, you must not be reading any of the articles...which talk about how they did these things in order to upset the patients.
As for calling yourself a feminist...well, I don't know a single self-identified feminist female who would agree with you. Perhaps you don't realize this, but a large part of past discrimination against women had to do with a warped, idealized view of them which denied them their individuality. Much of the reason behind women's sexual repression comes from the belief that they are more "pure" than men, not out of some intent to deny them pleasure. The "feminists" I know - real women who are active and, dare I say, rather feisty about women's rights - would slap you silly for many of the things you've said about women here.
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I do not deny women individuality anymore than I deny men indivisuality... I merely state what most people here also believe, that men and women are different, and have different characters. There are some biological women who are masculine and some biological men who are feminine, certainly... but the basic characteristics of masculine and feminine have some differences.
I no way to I state that women are in any way inferior, nor do I believe that all women are "pure" of sexless. Certainly it is the case that women prefer one partner and men tend to prefer many parters, ie - that women are more faithful than men... this is known to everyone - but it doesnt mean that women enjoy or appreciate sex less.
I put it to you that you in fact are using negative stereotypes of women - claiming that any feminist will be aggressive and "slap silly" people who disagree with them (ie - you are stating that a feminist in fact has the masculine characteristic of physical aggression)
In fact, feminists and women who defend their rights and call for an end of sexism are perflectly feminine, and the myth of the "butch feminist" I feel you are trying to put across is utterly false.
I have been alive 30 years, and I have seen plenty of people get into fights over all sorts of silly things - and Ive never seen a women "slap someone silly" over a political argument yet.