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History of Feminism

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redqueen

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1. "I'm not trying to call you a chauvinist, cause I know you're not alone in this"
Wed Dec 11, 2013, 12:15 PM
Dec 2013

Aw, so sweet how so many are so gentle in this kind of criticism. So gentle, so non-threatening to the hugely overblown egos of the audience.

So offensive, as well. Yes, let's not call out objectification as a bad thing you know. I mean so many people do it. It's practically a tradition to ignore the woman (sorry, girl) as a person, and instead fetishize the favored body parts.

Tit man
Ass man
Leg man

Without the indoctrination of patriarchy continually telling girls as they grow up that love and male approval for her looks are paramount, that her appearance is therefore paramount because 'men are visual'? And, well, nothing is more important than male approval.

Things would be vastly different. Better. At least for women.

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