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Antifeminists are the only ones who benefit from their version of working on women's behalf; in reality, they put other women at risk and fail to solce any larger problems.
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Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means that nothing else matters-not what we accomplish, not what we think, not what we care about and work for. Just if/how/whom we have sex with. That’s all.
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Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn’t matter how much we love them. They hate us”
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Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.
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Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a woman
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Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.
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I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some.
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Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to 'do the laundry' and 'clean up my room' could understand, maybe the rest of the world would follow suit. It made me hopeful in the best way.
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If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
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