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In reply to the discussion: From Jezebel: Sexism Fatigue... [View all]KitSileya
(4,035 posts)64. If we give equal rights to women, there's less rights for men, right?
It's like that research that shows that, if in a group, women speak close to 50% of the time, the men feel like women have dominated the conversation totally and that the men have been denied their right to speak.
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"39 female senators in the nation's entire history, and 20 of them are serving right now"
redqueen
Feb 2013
#3
+ a bajillion. that type of man doesn't see women as having any validity.
BlancheSplanchnik
Feb 2013
#58
I love the excerpts she shared. Not sure how anyone could read this stuff and still think
redqueen
Feb 2013
#15
And a handful of people here are laboring under the delusion that he is being ironic.
redqueen
Feb 2013
#49
I don't think they're saying that everything is ok, but rather, that both are wrong.
OceanEcosystem
Feb 2013
#32
well said. There's an ad about toilet cleaning that is breathtaking....
BlancheSplanchnik
Feb 2013
#56
Yeah, some of those jokes referred to had me gaping, especially the Quvenzhané Wallis one.
KitSileya
Feb 2013
#43
"Asking people to think critically about some hacky jokes from a dancing cartoonist?"
Matariki
Feb 2013
#62