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..is female?
According to Hillary Clinton it is
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/ne ... le-w465381

How is a high profile statement, meant to incite an audience at a pro-woman event not utterly sexist?

Does the future not have enough capacity for both sexes?
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Subs:

Women tend to live longer than men. Also how you going to keep them barefoot, pregnant, and attached to the stove once they've seen the outside world?
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The CCC wrote:Subs:

Women tend to live longer than men. Also how you going to keep them barefoot, pregnant, and attached to the stove once they've seen the outside world?

You old fool, who do you think does the gardening?

(And men live shorter lives by choice)
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Men that want to live longer.

I didn't know you were Jewish.
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subgenius wrote:..is female?
According to Hillary Clinton it is
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/ne ... le-w465381

How is a high profile statement, meant to incite an audience at a pro-woman event not utterly sexist?

Does the future not have enough capacity for both sexes?


Well, up to now the future - in terms of both political and social power, including within families, and certainly financially, has been hugely male. That's pretty damn' sexist, don't you think?

To have any chance of a fair deal, women are going to have to be as ruthless at demanding their share of power and wealth as men have so far been in seizing and holding so much of both for as long as people have lived in complex societies.

Personally, I'd prefer a society in which both genders had pretty well equal shares of power and wealth. But, if I had to chose between continued power for men and a switch of power to women, I'd go with the latter because:

(a) It seems only fair for them to have a turn after all these thousands of years.
(b) Going by the record, I don't think much of the way men, as men, tend to handle problems and conflicts on either a large or a small scale, and I'd like to see how people not riding on testosterone-trips might manage things. It can hardly be worse.
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The goal of The Future is Female is true gender equality just like the goal of Black Lives Matter is true racial equality.
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just me wrote:The goal of The Future is Female is true gender equality just like the goal of Black Lives Matter is true racial equality.


Subby knows that. He is just doing his usual troll.
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just me wrote:The goal of The Future is Female is true gender equality just like the goal of Black Lives Matter is true racial equality.

What is "true equality" ? Sounds kinda like an abstract and subjective notion.
Nevertheless, I sometimes think people confuse "equal" with fair. For example, there are without doubt men that make an unfair wage for doing the same job as other men and even other women. There are, no doubt, that there are men who suffer as victims from unjust stereotypes...and so on.
"True" equality seems to harken some idea of an "absolute" condition which can not be attained in a subjective world.

So, that being said, Hillary was being sexist at a sexist event, correct?
(And dismiss how you would demonize the word "sexist" when u respond )
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