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Oct 15, 2021

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No. She's right. One's virtue and character is not a function of their gender or their biology. That's just absurd thinking.

What she's talking about is the dark side of benevolent patriarchy, which casts women as domestic cherubs and angels who exist in large part to inspire men to be a little more than the brutes they would all otherwise be.

The obvious takeaway here is that this thinking, while stifling to women also casts men as villains, by birth.

This is absolutely 19th century, Victorian era thinking. It is well past time for all of us to move on from that. It didn't serve any of us well then. It serves us less well now.

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