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In reply to the discussion: I do not need... Eurocentric feminists to dictate to me what I wear or shouldn't wear. [View all]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Which is why I posted it.
There are differing schools in the world about feminism and how it is applied - it depends on a great many factors. What works in one place may not in another.
Using a single template won't work everywhere for everyone.
Look at someone making a joke about a dongle - some might yell sexism, others might laugh. Are the ones that laugh not smart enough to see that it is sexism? Or do they just have a sense of humor?
Different people react in different ways, and if we don't respect that diversity than we are trying to shoe horn everyone in to our way of thinking.
I have worked for many years in fields such as manufacturing and computers and known women who could toss out jokes that here would be alerted on in a NY minute - by a group of people who would see them as wrong for not saying those jokes were sexist.
Making accusations of sexism all the time gets to be like the person (don't want to say boy...) who cried wolf.