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History of Feminism

In reply to the discussion: Womensend! [View all]

ismnotwasm

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4. People don't understand reluctance our reluctance to "explain" either
Wed Feb 19, 2014, 03:07 PM
Feb 2014

I'm convinced that the reason so many threads on gender turn into train wrecks is a simple lack of, And resistance to, accurate knowledge. The kind with facts, not mere opinion. In some cases, I'd have to go into so much background it would be like teaching an informative-- but boring class to high school students.

Completely ignoring thousands and thousand of years of human development and jump right to Bonobos-- and consider themselves educated and just done.

Oy

It's mainstream now-- my husband is watching a show on toxic masculinity on some morning show, how we have to teach our boys to be more aware of what is heathy and what is destructive.

It's not like it's hard to understand.

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Womensend! [View all] ismnotwasm Feb 2014 OP
Love it! redqueen Feb 2014 #1
That's how I feel ismnotwasm Feb 2014 #2
"they're already left in the debris of history" redqueen Feb 2014 #3
People don't understand reluctance our reluctance to "explain" either ismnotwasm Feb 2014 #4
Exactly, it isn't new or hard to understand. redqueen Feb 2014 #5
Me too. Great find. nt sufrommich Feb 2014 #6
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