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LEMtheoriginal · 01/10/2018 22:48

How can i hide a topic? I kniw how to hide threads but would like tohide a topic?

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Ereshkigal · 05/10/2018 17:01

It is backed up with facts. I've presented three facts which support it. Even you admitted there is a "need for feminism". Why do you think that is?

TeddyIsaHe · 05/10/2018 17:01

Hear hear Verbeena! This thread is a perfect example of exactly what we’ve all been saying about the FWR threads. If it wasn’t so sad it would be hilarious.

VerbeenaBeeks · 05/10/2018 17:01

Ah yes, the patriarchy you've been drinking the cool aid loads of bollocks insults that gets trotted out too, forgot that one. That's another one wheeled out if you disagree.

VerbeenaBeeks · 05/10/2018 17:03

You've got to laugh really,Teddy, some couldn't have made it any more fucking clearer exactly WHY it gets hidden as a topic! Doing a sterling job Grin

Ereshkigal · 05/10/2018 17:03

) by completely blanking the fact women are saying they are being shouted down, called men, and personally attacked if they dare to disagree with you.

I'm saying that no one has the "right" not to be disagreed with. That's all. And now you're being really quite rude. Ruder than I've been. So I will continue to respond when I am smeared and insulted when it's your own comprehension of simple sentences which appears to be the issue here.

VerbeenaBeeks · 05/10/2018 17:04

I think Erishgal has a crib sheet of stock comments from some feminism sheet, it's robotic tunnel vision in places Confused

Ereshkigal · 05/10/2018 17:05

Ah yes, the patriarchy

Yes the patriarchy is classical feminist theory. You appear not to like feminists in general very much.

RudeZebra · 05/10/2018 17:06

It is backed up with facts. I've presented three facts which support it.

But those 3 facts aren't mentioned at all in my earlier post. So how do they evidence a patriarchy specifically?

VerbeenaBeeks · 05/10/2018 17:08

I'm saying that no one has the "right" not to be disagreed with.

Of course no one has the right not to be disagreed with, literally no one has said that. What is bizarre is your tunnel mindedness to blank out things you don't want to see.
People have been answering you but you will just not accept it.As we've been saying all along, absolutely no point engaging.

Ereshkigal · 05/10/2018 17:10

I've been really quite clear with my posts about the patriarchy and how I agreed that it was an ideological construct but unlike TWAW founded on facts (about the position of women in society) three of which I mentioned. You seem thoroughly unable to grasp this.

Not interested in explaining this any further.

Ereshkigal · 05/10/2018 17:11

People have been answering you but you will just not accept it

Yes you've been answering with your personal faith based beliefs. Like any religious believer would.

Ereshkigal · 05/10/2018 17:12

the onus is on the person who makes an extraordinary claim

VerbeenaBeeks · 05/10/2018 17:13
GinIsIn · 05/10/2018 17:13

How come you can have an ‘ideological construction’ of a patriarchy but we can’t apply our own definition to ‘female’?

Ereshkigal · 05/10/2018 17:14

Because being female is a material thing. Patriarchy is not. Do you seriously think biological sex doesn't exist?

GinIsIn · 05/10/2018 17:14

And there it is:
you appear not to like feminists very much

Not your version of feminist, no.

But it’s not the same as my idea of feminist. Or many others on this thread. Our ‘ideological construct’ of it, if you will.

BrownPaperTeddy · 05/10/2018 17:15

I'm saying that no one has the "right" not to be disagreed with.

Quite correct.

But there's disagreeing and then there's the FWR way of disagreeing which is to name call, abuse, misgender repeatedly. They "bait and switch" demanding answers to multiple questions but never answer any questions asked to them.

That isn't debating. And I don't want you speaking in my name. Don't make out that you speak for all women because you don't speak with me.

I have concerns about self ID but I do not have any problem with trans men or trans women.

Ereshkigal · 05/10/2018 17:16

And I don't want you speaking in my name

I'm not speaking in your name. It's not in any way about you. I will defend women's rights as I see fit.

BrownPaperTeddy · 05/10/2018 17:17

don't speak with me

should be don't speak for me

GinIsIn · 05/10/2018 17:19

You didn’t say biological female. You gave your definition of woman as ‘adult human female’.

There is a biological definition of the female sex, in that they are in possession of a double XX chromosome. Obviously that cannot be changed. But it’s not the same definition as femininity nor of woman.

And no trans women are not in possession of the same chromosomes as a biological female, but nor are people with chromosomal disorders like Downs Syndrome. I’m not going to deny someone the chance to piss in the bathroom in which they are most comfortable purely because they don’t have the same chromosomal structure as I do.

RatRolyPoly · 05/10/2018 17:19

To be fair I don't use the word "patriarchy" in the dictionary defined way when I refer to it.

Then again I've never put much stock in the old dictionary.

Down with the patriarchy! For the good of both women and men.

I bet that sound bite is really confusing to some people, they might have literally no idea what I mean Grin

Ereshkigal · 05/10/2018 17:19

But it’s not the same as my idea of feminist.

Oh yes, it's perfectly possible to be a feminist without caring about women's rights to define themselves as a class. You can simply identify yourself in and out of whatever category takes your fancy. Words don't mean things. Biology, what's that?

VerbeenaBeeks · 05/10/2018 17:19

Hear hear, BrownPaperTeddy.

BrownPaperTeddy · 05/10/2018 17:20

I'm not speaking in your name. It's not in any way about you. I will defend women's rights as I see fit.

That's great. Just when you are "defending" be sure to make it clear that it is your opinion that you are giving, not that "women" think this or want that. Only that you think this or want that.

VerbeenaBeeks · 05/10/2018 17:21

You appear not to like feminists in general very much

Not your type where you refuse to accept transpeople, no. You're right there.

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