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Gender wars are exhausting.

jgh:

“Besides, and I will get killed for this but this entire notion of feminism is belittling. You don’t have men going around calling themselves maleists. Its the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever heard. If you want to be treated equally, then stop playing the gender card.”

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(via soupsoup)

Not killing you, but genuinely asking — how do you suggest people point out and fight inequal treatment on the basis of gender without bringing up gender?

By your definition, does “pointing out inequality” = “playing the gender card”? Or do you mean something else? How else are people to fight systematic discrimination on the basis of sex?

You know how you fight the systematic discrimination on the basis of sex? You succeed based on the merits of your own abilities as a HUMAN BEING. The constant reminder that you are a man or a woman is quite frankly exhausting. Everything you do doesn’t have to have your gender stamped on it. As different as men and women are, they actually have quite a bit in common.

My real point here is there is, especially in this campaign lately, and strategically, a knee jerk reaction to anytime Palin is called on her bullshit that its sexism or that no man would ever receive the same treatment.

The old adage, nobody can make you feel inferior unless you let them applies here as well. The more people write about how Palin is being unfairly attacked, the more the bravado of her debut loses its luster.

If she wants to fight back, fight back by explaining her positions and defending them, and stop being a victim.