Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided
by ALittleLight on Monday November 23, 2020 @06:33PM
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I think it's a pretty low bar to ask for an example of a current systemic disadvantage that women have. I can point to multiple systemic disadvantages that men have right now - but your examples are from 100 years ago or are very vague. If the systemic oppression of women in the US is so vast as to necessitate laws that advantage or disadvantage individuals based on their sex, then I think it should also be pretty easy to point to.
As far as talking with women about the sexism they've experienced - I've never denied women experience sexism. I've explicitly acknowledged that multiple times. My point is that the sexism they experience is not an organized system of oppression (i.e. it is not "systemic"). There are multiple, explicit, and codified systems that disadvantage men and I have pointed to several of them.
Re:To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided
by adamsea on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:11AM
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If the effects are systemic it doesn’t matter if there is an “organized system”.
In fact we have a word for that and that word is “culture”. No one explicitly organizes it.
You use knowledge and reason, not to seek truth, but to occlude it for your own ends, driven by your own insecurities and fear.
If you are unwilling to understand the significance of it taking until 1920 for women to receive the right to vote, and the variety of reasons for resistance to the ERA, then, I don't know what to say.
If you haven't, talk with the women in your life you are friends with about sexism and discrimination in the work place.