Re:Why Susan Fowler blew the whistle on sexism at Uber
by wpietri on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @02:03PM
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It is certainly inappropriate and unprofessional. But it's also sexism, in that for centuries men here have been using power to push women to have sex without regard to their actual interest. E.g., marital rape didn't become a crime across the US until 1993: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_rape#United_States
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Re:Why Susan Fowler blew the whistle on sexism at Uber
by username90 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @02:31PM
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That isn't sexism, similar things happens all the time in gay relationships. Similarly men murdering women in relationships is not sexism, since gay men murder their partners at a higher rate than straight men. So it isn't sexism, it isn't about men hating women, it is just about men committing a lot more brutal violence on average. Or in this case, it is just about men being a lot more forceful about sex than women, even when they are proposing to men.
Re:Why Susan Fowler blew the whistle on sexism at Uber
by wpietri on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @04:53PM
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The notion that the law allowed men to rape certain women seen as their property isn't sexism?
You could be right that men have some innate tendency to commit more violence. But what they also have, as your excuses here make plain, is more social license to commit violence. The former, if true, is just a fucked up fact our evolutionary history. The latter, though is very definitely sexism.