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Is a woman's gender/sex viewpoint mostly age-related?

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Terfulike · 01/05/2018 19:18

Given the thread on BBC WhatsApp groups, is it an age issue? Is it related to young women having less experience of concrete sex-related experiences such as motherhood, rape, maternity leave impact on career etc. And how would these aspects be communicated to young women? (I'm 53 with 4 kids)

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Slightlyperturbedowlagain · 01/05/2018 19:32

I think as you get older and realise exactly what you are capable of handling every day you are less prepared to tolerate sexist crap and inequality.

MIdgebabe · 01/05/2018 19:31

And perhaps also the younger generation has more experiance of people being openly trans? although I sometimes think that is experimentation with gender identify which is different to trans as I understand it. Guess my age!

Unfortunately I don't think that it's because the rates of rape and sexual violence are going down, and I worry that young people are prepared to accept such violence as normal, which may make them more tolerant of greater risk.

ask questions, sometime they don't know the difficult questions to think about.my dd hadn't thought about the rape crisis centre question for example.

MyRunMyPace · 01/05/2018 19:29

And in answer to your second question, I think by discussing these things with our children and younger friends and colleagues (both male and female though).

OvaHere · 01/05/2018 19:29

I suspect being gender critical skews towards women who have experienced many decades as females but there are definitely much younger women who are too.

I'm sure many who have bought into gender ideology will grow out of it as they age and reality hits. A few years down the line these may end up being the women at the forefront of trying to undo a lot of the mess they unwisely contributed to. Sad

MyRunMyPace · 01/05/2018 19:26

I think age must play a part - simply because experiencing different things informs your opinions, and you experience more things over time.

Do women become more feminist over time then 🤔? I certainly have.

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