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2016-04-03 06:02:30 Post No. 677399678
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2016-04-03 06:02:30
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1. There is a gender system
Males and females are socialized into masculinities and femininities. Masculine and feminine behavior is not simply determined by biology.
2. The gender system is damaging
Masculinities and femininities can be damaging and dehumanizing to both males and females.
3. Women are oppressed
Women have suffered various types of systematic mistreatment throughout history, and continue to do so in the present. This mistreatment is unjust. If it can be called “oppression,” then women suffer gender oppression.
4. Sexism exists
Sexism—hateful, contemptuous, bigoted, or discriminatory attitudes based on sex—is real. Sexism can be institutionalized socially and politically. The feminist identification and critique of misogyny has mitigated it to a degree, though institutionalized misogyny still exists.
5. Males have unjust advantages
Males have some systematic advantages over females that they do not have a right to.
6. Marginalization of the experience of women
Prior to feminism, the experience of women was marginalized in academic and scientific disciplines, and in public discourse.
7. Sexuality involves power dynamics
Under the gender system at least, sexuality is intertwined with power dynamics. E.g. male-dominant, female-submissive, and male-active, female-passive. These power dynamics are not limited to heterosexuality. The link between power dynamics and sexuality can be damaging to people.
8. There is something wrong with pornography
Pornography can be dehumanizing toward both its users and towards its participants. Even if pornography can be defended on legal grounds, these liberal arguments doesn’t protect it from moral critique.
9. There is intersectionality of oppression
Gender oppression and oppression based on race, sexual orientation, or class, can combine multiplicatively (and sometime supramultiplicatively) into oppression that is more than the sum of its parts.
