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History of Feminism

NYC_SKP

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3. I feel strongly that most of it is indoctrinated.

Reply to ismnotwasm (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 16, 2014, 11:01 PM

Apr 2014

I'm living evidence toward that theory: Raised by a grandmother, with working mother and an older sister.

No manly men around. I don't understand much of what they do in this culture.

Friends in other countries don't demonstrate the same gender roles and biases, for the most part.

Yeah, I think it's largely indoctrination.

Manliness. It would be funny if it didn't so frequently have tragic consequences.

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So I found this website "The Art of Manliness" [View all] ismnotwasm Apr 2014 OP

I guess I'm not very "Manly"! NYC_SKP Apr 2014 #1

Innumerable fallacies ismnotwasm Apr 2014 #2

I feel strongly that most of it is indoctrinated. NYC_SKP Apr 2014 #3

Indeed ismnotwasm Apr 2014 #4

Cavemen were actually very poor at providing Warpy Apr 2014 #5

The protectors were often gone ismnotwasm Apr 2014 #6

what is a hoot with all this? i listen to men define masculinity and it is never exclusively man. seabeyond Apr 2014 #7

Just old-fashioned gender essentialism. Men are this, women are that. nomorenomore08 Apr 2014 #8