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Originally Posted by HenryA
And her premise in search of a book was the stereotypical man hate to which I refer.
Holding half the population of the world responsible for the bad deeds of a few is corrosive to society. Its one flip side of referring to women as hos and bitches. Men are all rapists and women are all whores is not a game to help anyone.
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This is some reactionary both sides-ism. The onus is on men to change their behavior in aggregate towards women, both in the micro and the macro. However one defines it, whether someone sees that as smashing the patriarchy or simply demanding a more equitable seat at the table. That means everything from ensuring victims of sexual and domestic violence are heard and taken seriously, to efforts in the workplace to ensure women are paid the same for the same work as men.
The underlying premise of this line of thought is that we live in a society without broad structural gender bias, and that's simply not true.