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Name: Anonymous 2011-09-22 18:23

http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/09/mark-shuttlewor-1.html

If you were at a conference where all the speakers are female and 97% of the attendees are also female, would you get offended because the speaker uses female pronouns all the time?

Name: Anonymous 2012-03-21 21:48

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It's the whole notion of gender, as a social construct. Now, before anyone objects on fuzzyness grounds, I welcome you to google how many combinations of chromosomes and expressions of their genes affect ``sex'' in the first place (hint: google AIS women).
No reason why everyone shouldn't be treated the same.  Feminists didn't invent the notion that everyone should be gender-blind on everything except for sexuality, it's actually just common sense.  It's true, people's brain pattern matching will always trigger when they encounter someone who isn't in the usual {boy, girl} set, but they're quite free to ignore it.  One's gender doesn't concern you at least until you get to the bedroom with them, so I doubt that should be an issue most of the time.

Egalitarianism I have never heard as a serious movement, but I find it quite a bit retarded that feminists seek to place women and men ``equally represented'' on all levels of hierarchy, disregarding the obvious root cause.
Socialism or egalitarianism both imply gender-blindness in everything (except sexuality).  Last time I checked my doubles, socialism didn't try to fight discrimination and inequality with more discrimination and inequality; by definition I'm a socialist, but I'd never associate myself with a movement that doesn't shy away from immorality, discrimination and unfairness, all while pretending to fight all of those.

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