I'm so angry that I have to be a feminist.

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QueenStromba · 14/04/2014 07:07

Why can't I just be a person? I feel like a person but I'm not a person because I'm a woman. Men can just be people but women are less than real people. I've always felt grateful that I don't live in the Middle East where I couldn't drive a car or go out on my own but the scales have fallen from my eyes and I see now that I am part of the underclass because I have a vagina. I tried to tell myself that it didn't matter but I was just kidding myself. I have a vagina and that makes me less important than if I had a penis even in 21st century Britain. I can't even imagine how bad women in other countries have it.

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TheDoctrineOfSnatch · 14/04/2014 07:52

I do think the "Pink Brain Blue Brain" stuff is a big problem here. Many people, men and women, believe there are such inherent differences between the sexes that an element of different treatment is "natural".

Of course, 150 years ago, anti-abolitionists in America believed just as fervently in a natural difference between black and white. They might have deplored violence to slaves but not slavery itself.

I do think there's something about it being possible not to encounter a person or many people of a different race or sexuality until you are an older child or young adult versus being born one or the other sex and absorbing things that way every day from birth that makes sexism more difficult to tackle.

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QueenStromba · 14/04/2014 07:33

Is there anything we can do Doctrine?

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TheDoctrineOfSnatch · 14/04/2014 07:20

Yes, I agree.

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