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[–]RestingWitchface 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I kind of feel like gender ideology is an extreme version of "girls can be anything they want to be". Now "anything" includes actually becoming a "man". People can't tell the difference between biology and stereotypes anymore.

I had this conversation with a friend recently, and she just could not grasp what I was saying. She kept saying "but if you define women by they're biology, you're saying that women are inferior to men and should only aspire to be mothers and have babies!". No no no no.

Women are physically smaller and weaker than men (on average), and can give birth. Those are biological facts. The idea that women are inferior because of this fact, or that women should only give birth is a regressive gender norm.

We need to start separating out the facts from the gender nonsense.

[–]VioletRemi 11 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

"girls can be anything they want to be"

It feels more like "girls can be anything from this two: be stereotypical feminine or be a man".