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[–]ruqqer 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Feminists: Women don't have to be feminine.

Also feminists: women need special privileges and treatment: women-only places, women-only programs, women-only this, women-only that

Trolls: hey, we want special gibsmedat as well. How about we call ourselves women?

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Also feminists: women need special privileges and treatment: women-only places, women-only programs, women-only this, women-only that

This seems to be the course that all activism ends up running. A group starts out being actually oppressed and demanding equality, but the nature of identity politics being what they are, this is inevitably never good enough, and pretty soon the activism machine is demanding not equality but the exact opposite - special privileges as a protected class. It doesn't matter whether its women, blacks, alphabet people, or any other special identity group. Identity politics is an exteremely toxic kind of ideology.