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In reply to the discussion: "I'm Biracial & That Cheerios Ad Is a Big Fucking Deal," ALSO "10 Reasons It's Best Commercial Ever" [View all]calimary
(81,240 posts)This:
"They never consider that the women might have something to say about that, "consent" is not something they have ever recognized as important."
What a woman might have to say about something, anything, has been such a non-issue for so long. I mean - seems like we're talking thousands of years. I don't know. But I've found it something that I thought about a lot, even from grade school times. I found myself thinking - "how can you make pronouncements like that? You're not a woman, how on earth could you possibly know?" What did megyn kelly even get pissed off enough to say? "Who died and made you the god of science"? (Or some such thing. Guess that one was even too much for megyn kelly.) Mainly it was for the early exposures outside my nuclear family, including doctors and of course the visiting priest who came to our school once a week to conduct the catechism class - and the other priests in the parish, too.
Women have been regarded as property - to be bought, sold, traded, and owned, or lent out maybe - for as far back as womankind can remember. I sometimes find, in my own mind, that the issues of the woman supersede pretty much all other social and social-justice issues. Mainly because there are women in EVERY demographic imaginable. There are black women. There are Latinas. There are Asian women. There are white women. There are indigenous tribal women. There are old women. There are young women. There are gay women. There are disabled women. There are warrior women. There are business women. There are rich women. There are poor women - and how! Seems to me that ALL issues eventually settle down onto one shared foundation: that involving and directly affecting the female of the human species.
And maybe we need to assert that more, and help integrate that reality into the general (and male-dominated mindset). I don't know. Just rambling, really. But one thing I think is certain: a large part of society is so unaccustomed to having to include and accommodate the female view - not just in Madison Avenue matters but in policy matters. It reminds me of a statement one of the women US Senators made not terribly long ago. I forget who said this but the statement was made that if women held a majority in the Senate (maybe Congress in general), many of the big problems we face would be solved. Because women would be interested in getting something accomplished and some problems solved rather than putting total emphasis on political posturing. We don't have that majority yet, and I'm sure there will be whole population segments that resist it like crazy, but I'm thinking that it's the way we're headed. And I hope so. 'Cause I hate the idea of being held back for such an arbitrary assumption.