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I don't recognize most of their usernames and I post on here every day while I'm at work. I think they saw a thread about feminism and decided to come in and start trolling or something and of course, try and gang up on the men. Hive mind mentality naturally.
You don't recognize me, gallowsCalibrator, hothulamaui, DC at the Ridge, 2mares, tamajane, Cantabridgienne, jjrose, or AfternoonCoffee? Really?
latimeria and Gaylenwoof don't post frequently in PCOC (or at least not in the threads I frequent), but everyone else are frequent contributors to this sub.
A few less strawmen and a few more real interactions might help with recognizing forum posters.
So what are your personal motives behind wishing us all back to 19th century status? Don't pretend it's that you want us to be happy, as your examples were based on an inconclusive study of happiness where you extrapolated that feminism is the cause (based on your hopes it's revoked) and observing the idea of Amish women, part of a secretive society that pretends everything is hunky dory to outsiders, SEEMING to be happy even if they're second class.
You see. This type of post is the kind of misrepresentative, babbling nonsense that I'm talking about
What hightower is saying is that women can be respected and loved with or without all three waves of feminism and he predicted (not necessarily preferred) that society would go back to the way things were before first wave feminism.
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Originally Posted by Hightower72
I did actually say that I preferred all phases of feminism to be rolled back, rather than just predicting it.
Okay. This takes the cake for the funniest thing in this thread. A poster trying to defend another by misrepresenting their opinion.
So like I said, Hightower desires to subjugate women back to 19th century gender roles. And in attempting to provide any sort of evidence to support his personal opinions, used cherry-picked data and anecdotal "evidence" via the Amish and how they treat their women.
But hey, if it's not enough that every woman on this thread has stated that she would be unhappy with 19th century gender roles, I absolutely implore ya to actually survey a couple thousand to hundred-thousand women in America to see if they would be happier in that role.
You see. This type of post is the kind of misrepresentative, babbling nonsense that I'm talking about
I'm glad you agree his ideas are nonsense.....because they are. He used marginal anecdotes (hey, Amish women seem happy and don't care they're second class. Never mind we have no proof since they handle affairs internally. That's an awesome example of how life SHOULD be) and a study that by the mere premise (happiness is not easily quantified whatsoever) is flawed. That's about it for what he's argued as reasons why all feminism is harmful and should be abolished. Forgive me for finding that woefully lacking.
Having the right to vote is very, very harmful to women. I should be home ironing, not worrying my pretty little head over politics. Owning property is scary! I need a man to do that for me. I can't handle my own bank account, I'm just a girl! Education? Home Ec is good enough for me!
Spousal rape laws? Nah, he just sometimes gets carried away, amirite fellas? Autonomy over my reproductive system? No, no, no. Barefoot and pregnant is a good look on me.
It's called expressing an opinion. It goes hand in hand with freedom of speech.
Absolutely. You are free and welcome to share your opinions. We are also free to tell you that the vast majority of women do not want their rights rolled back to the 1800s. Or the 1950s, for that matter.
What is strange is when every woman in this thread says, "Hey, you know, I like to be able to vote and have a credit card and make purchases in my own name and make my own money and have the choice of whether to be at stay at home wife/mother or not," and your response seems to be, "You just don't know what makes you happy and here are some vaguely related stats to prove why."
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