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Oppression does indeed exist. But, oppression is complicated, far more complicated than can be distilled in an undergraduate academic setting.
It might just be that casual prejudice has become so commonplace that many of us don’t even notice it anymore.
Their lives were destroyed, and their lives will remain destroyed if we don’t say anything. To bring back their rights, we must speak up.
It’s about the role of ambivalence in contemporary politics, focusing on an emerging strand of feminist politics.
My blissful union with feminism ended in the same way that any long-term relationship does: with hurt feelings, a little embarrassment, and a pang of remorse over what could have been.
Are women so smothered by the blanket of victimhood that we can’t concede that men face issues too? Isn’t the hallmark of intersectionality finding victimhood everywhere?
Feminism wasn’t always this censorious. The university feminists of today do not reflect the motives of the classical past of their movement.
“Gender Stereotypes Just As Prevalent in 2016 As In The 1980s, New Study Finds, So Maybe Things Aren’t As Great As We’d Like To Believe.”
If the Diversity whingers were interested in solving problems, they’d have focused on these issues long ago.
In this age of sexual equality and non-discrimination, it increasingly looks hypocritical and inconsistent to support both the legitimacy and legality of male circumcision and, at the same time, the unacceptability and illegality of FGC.
To say that Columbia has a “rape culture” is not just inaccurate, but it suggests that Columbia somehow is exclusionary not just in terms of academic elitism, but in the number of sexual assaults that happen too.
“Begin at the beginning,’ the King said, very gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
After Cologne, feminism is dead. Europe must now focus on the more important issue of women’s rights.
Feminism is purported to be a movement towards equality. Fair enough. Most reasonable people support that.
Don’t throw the word ‘misogyny’ at every man with an obtuse opinion. Do so, and you will denude the word of all its meaning and all its power.