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In reply to the discussion: Since anyone with a penis is a potential rapist there is only but one (or two) answers: [View all]antigone382
(3,682 posts)Oppression still exists and on a grand and overwhelming scale, as the things I mentioned in my original post on this thread make clear.
The question is not "is there less oppression than there used to be," but "how much further do we have to go." And on the flip side of that, will we ever achieve anything close to true justice if privileged groups, including men, cannot acknowledge that they are privileged? If men will not acknowledge that implicit in the disproportionate oppression of women is the disproportionate privilege of men, then there will never be anything even close to justice.
I do want to ask you: given that a good deal of evidence has been given that your tongue-in-cheek dystopian horror story for men has been the reality for women for generations, what kinds of thoughts does that stimulate for you? The fact that the kind of situation you present in your OP and short story is so far fetched for one gender, but virtually inevitable for another...does that have any effect on your thoughts regarding gender, sexism, rape, etc.?