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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (19 children)

This data is the World world, not just "America world".

Also, if men are going right, then the left needs to step up their offering.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (18 children)

"When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

While this is true, it's also true that pendulum swings can go further in the opposite direction than equality.

While a trite example, in the recent Barbie film, at the end when things are going back to the seemingly good way, the men in Barbieland ask if they can have a seat on the supreme court and are told no, which is then explained as Barbieland being a mirror to the real world such that as there's increased equality in the real world then equality for men in the mirror would increase.

Apparently the writers weren't familiar with the fact there's four women on the supreme court right now and a woman has been on the court since 1981 (around twice as close to the creation of Barbie than to the present day).

Even in the context of its justifiably imbalanced equality it failed to be proportionally imbalanced.

There's interesting research around how the privileged underestimate the degree to which the good things that happen to them are because of privilege, but that at the same time the underprivileged overestimate how often the bad things which happen are because of bias. In theory both are ego-preserving adaptations. But it also means that either side is going to have a difficult time correctly identifying equality from their relative subjective perspectives.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was a film about plastic dolls from a corporation trying to seem less like a big bad corporation. If you're using the Barbie movie as evidence in an actual philosophical debate around other human beings having equal rights, you have bigger problems in life.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Philosophy is all about finding meaning in common life, why shouldn't we use the barbie movie?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because pop culture corporate feminism isn't actual meaningful feminism, it is an entirely different beast the serves to reinforce the patriarchy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

By claiming to reject hierarchical sexism while reinforcing the structure of oppositional sexism.

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