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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-21-06 01:21 PM
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36. So you didn't even try to find one, did you? INSIGHT I said insight
not "accept it as true, without consideration."

That man might help you understand that the list is a generalization (not "stereotype") of the experience of all women, not an indictment of individual men. Of course there are differences in individual behavior, just as there would be if this was a list about "white privilege."

That man might help you slow down and reflect on the experience of those living within that system, rather than immediately try to "take issue with" and feel some points "skewed off target and unfair"-- TO YOU! Have you thought about how this represents an entire world wide system that is "unfair" TO WOMEN?

That man might point out that if you boiled the whole list down to the fact that most authority figures (generally) and all representations (generally) of GOD are male, it might help you RELATE to the experience of women and have more RESPECT for what the list is describing.

"It benefits no one to pretend that all men are hegemonic controllers who only benefit from their sex."

Again, no one made any such claim. All men GENERALLY benefit from their sex and that is undeniable. That man might point our that the need to "take issue" rather than discuss the issue (with consideration of how it affects women) IS controlling behavior, reinforcing the notion that men can't discuss these things except in terms of how it is ABOUT THEM.

You might be glad that you took my suggestion to find that man and gain some insight and understand the benefits of learning something as distinguished from "accept it as true, without consideration."

Consideration is all we ask for.
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