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In reply to the discussion: "Man-bashing." My favorite DU pule. [View all]redqueen
(115,103 posts)It's a very important and serious issue. Men are incapable of understanding completely what girls and women go through. Yes, they are. It is impossible.
Unless they are lied to about what sex they are, and they are raised as girls, and therefore subjected to the different treatment girls get as they grow up, there is absolutely no way for them to fully comprehend what it is like.
Just as it is impossible for me, as a biracial woman, to understand completely what it is like to grow up as a black person, or an Asian person, or a native American person, male or female.
This is not a difficult concept.
Add to that fact the tendency that so many men have of trying to step in and run things, often with the best of intentions.
I feel the need to share this now.
WASHINGTONAfter decades spent battling gender discrimination and inequality in the workplace, the feminist movement underwent a high-level shake-up last month, when 53-year-old management consultant Peter "Buck" McGowan took over as new chief of the worldwide initiative for women's rights.
McGowan, who now oversees the group's day-to-day operations, said he "couldn't be happier" to bring his ambition, experience, and no-nonsense attitude to his new role as the nation's top feminist.
"All the feminist movement needed to do was bring on someone who had the balls to do something about this glass ceiling business," said McGowan, who quickly closed the 23.5 percent gender wage gap by "making a few calls to the big boys upstairs." "In the world of gender identity and empowered female sexuality, it's all about who you know."
McGowan, who was selected from a pool of roughly 150 million candidates, made eliminating sexual harassment his first priority before working on securing reproductive rights for women in all 50 states, and promoting healthy body images through an influx of strong, independent female characters in TV, magazines, and film.
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