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[–]jkfinn 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It doesn’t take much to disappear women, even the most famous ones, because women-as-women are already disappeared. Think of all the once-known women who were buried in unmarked graves, or who died in a welfare hotel. But Woody Allen will always persist as a “pantheon film-maker,” because it takes one hell of a lot more to disappear a male, esp. when he’s one of the renowned ones.

[–]endless_assfluff 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That unmarked graves comment reminded me of the Magdalene Laundries. Uggghhh. I can't wrap my head around the scale of reproductive abuse---still ongoing!---and how much we owe to these women whose achievements will never be acknowledged. But it's not "woke" to talk about the Magdalene Laundries because it reflects poorly on a specific religion. Oh no. The real woke problem is an author tactfully and respectfully standing up for women.

And yeah, the sexism is so obvious. They spend more energy shouting down women for saying words they don't like than on condemning men for, y'know, assaulting or killing people.