FP
2008-04-14 22:46:15
Says
Chuck Pelto:
TO: All
RE: Solnit
…My point… is that women are more likely to practice ’silencing’ of opposing opinions; given the (1) power and (2) chance.
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That is very true.
Liberals in general and females specifically are not bogged down with the self defeating anglo/american “freedom, liberty and justice” grand political conceit (which allows anglo /american males to feel cosmically more nobel than everyone else while they breed themselves into extinction).
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The root point of the LATimes article actually (though I will not read it of course) is that even the male instinct towards helpfulness and protective display is “oppressing females” (…with policy implications for the imaginative…).
