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lightningandsnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-25-09 08:41 AM
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21. How should I know?
The group of "women" is not a monolith, and encompasses people of various sexual orientations, races, classes, countries of origin, ages, gender histories, abilities, experiences, and the like. Therefore, personally, I'd find it very presumptuous of my to say what I think is the greatest issue facing women. How could I say what's most important to an HIV-positive woman in Angola, a trans woman in Russia, or a teenage mother in Nunavut?

However (and no offense is intended to the OP), I think a big problem in the feminist movement is assuming we speak for everyone.
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  -What do you think is the single biggest issue or problem facing women today? BlueIris  Nov-11-08 03:34 AM   #0 
  - Lack of political representation, I'd say  Ellen Forradalom   Nov-11-08 09:46 AM   #1 
  - This may not be the right word for it, but I would say complacency.  wildflower   Nov-11-08 05:37 PM   #2 
  - That's the gist of what I would have written -- complacency.  Gormy Cuss   Nov-12-08 12:26 PM   #6 
  - I just saw this sentence in a Time article:  wildflower   Nov-13-08 05:11 PM   #8 
     - I wish that I knew, other than the painful idea of overturning Roe  Gormy Cuss   Nov-13-08 05:34 PM   #9 
  - Kind of what I think  ismnotwasm   Nov-12-08 03:11 PM   #7 
  - I'm torn  lwfern   Nov-11-08 07:51 PM   #3 
  - Maybe I should have posted mine, too: coercive choicelessness.  BlueIris   Nov-11-08 11:05 PM   #4 
  - Lack of Power....be it political,  femrap   Nov-12-08 11:59 AM   #5 
  - I agree with this one - for me this is it. n/t  Triana   Dec-03-08 12:07 AM   #10 
  - That all genders  He loved Big Brother   Apr-05-09 05:33 PM   #11 
  - Hi BlueIris,  blueraven95   Apr-05-09 08:34 PM   #12 
  - I would say fracturing feminist solidarity.  Runcible Spoon   Apr-05-09 08:49 PM   #13 
  - Over emphasis and over valuation of externals and youthfulness.  bluedawg12   Apr-05-09 09:12 PM   #14 
  - Equal pay is one of THE biggest  LostinVA   Apr-05-09 09:12 PM   #15 
  - The best start would be equal pay for equal work.  Jamastiene   Apr-06-09 04:08 AM   #16 
  - Equal pay for equal work is so basic, it's mind boggling that it's still an issue  bluedawg12   Apr-06-09 10:17 AM   #17 
  - Poverty. Poverty. Poverty  Vanje   Apr-07-09 12:32 PM   #18 
  - I don't know which is most important...  femrap   Apr-19-09 05:26 PM   #19 
  - As always, autonomy over our wombs.  Hello_Kitty   Apr-20-09 01:57 AM   #20 
  - How should I know?  lightningandsnow   Apr-25-09 08:41 AM   #21 
 

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