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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)2/16/2012 12:38:34 pm PST

re: #268 Simply Sarah

Well, you were the one that brought up pronouns.

Yes. They’re an example of misogyny in our culture.

I was talking about the fact that culture still tends to assume women as being lesser than men in many ways, including the actions and thought of supposedly enlightened people.

And one example of this is that ‘he’ is the default pronoun, rather than ‘she’.

My point is that even though this is a problem, I do not feel it is as important to address as attempts to ban women from abortion and contraception access.

There is a limited amount of time and energy in the world. Even of on some metaphysical level, all harms are equal, that doesn’t mean they can, or should be, all equally addressed.

If what you’re saying is that you want to address the causative crap rather than the outputs, I think it’s all a big reinforcing system Oroborusing its way through the mind, and that what some call ‘symptoms’ are also causative of the disease itself. You see a woman get treated bad, it makes you more likely to treat a woman bad.