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In reply to the discussion: DU should be collectively ashamed that people here deny that objectification of women is a problem. [View all]BainsBane
(53,031 posts)and diversity to all being the fault of a "small group of feminists," some of whom they call out by name. That kind of reaction is willfully obtuse and ignores reality, which seems to be the point. They refuse to consider issues and think there is something mentally ill about women who insist on being treated as equal human beings. No one can force anyone to value equality and diversity. The fact is too many people care only about themselves and see opportunities and equal rights for women and people of color as an unacceptable infringement on the absolute privilege. They believe it is only they and those who think exactly like them who matter, and no one else That much is clear. To insist there is something diseased about asserting equal rights is the height of intolerance. It is the opponents of equality that insist on making it personal because they want to pretend that if not for a few loud-mouthed feminists, they could happily ignore the rights of over half the human race.
What is really sad is how much a few resent progress and desperately seek to turn the clock back to over fifty years ago.