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[theonlygremlin]

I might just take this opportunity to remind those of you who are unaware, that it is National Women's Day on Thursday; a day to walk naked through the streets parading our womanly parts for all to see! Parade the fact this it is not a crime to be chestily endowed, as today's fashion designers might assert.
Thursday is a day to say, we have

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[_____six]

i love intelligent women!

[theonlygremlin]

GET OFF MY PAGE YOU HIDEOUS REINFORCEMENT OF PATRIACHY

p.s what time are you arriving in ye olde bathee townee on fridee, charlee?

[piratesarerad]

man I hate crap like this
people who claim to be "for equality" more often than not do so under the false pretences of having a dig those that had at one point oppressed them.

If you want equality, then stop using the fact that very nominal discrimination towards [insert race/religion/gender] exists to band together in order to stress just how different you are from the other percentage of the species. It's like they're trying to say "WE ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT RESPECT OUR INDEPENDENCE AND PRIVELEDGES, BUT TREAT US EXACTLY THE SAME BECAUSE WE WANT EVERYTHING EVERYONE ELSE GETS"

I am all for everyone getting paid the same and shit, but I don't like people saying one thing and thinking something else.

[theonlygremlin]

Well, it is true that I use minor national events and light-hearted livejournal entries to vent an otherwise repressed hatred of men and assert my individuality!

I presume it was the part when I talked about the intelligent women at home or in offices, that got your goat, because that was the only part that adopted a semi-serious tone, or perhaps the part where I said that there was still a path to tread. I think that there is.
Just to clarify: I'm not talking man-bashing, chaining ourselves to railings, running naked through parliament, etc. I mean simply in terms of stereotypes that are still being reinforced, which applies to both men and women and means stopping the constant differentiating you refer to. Note, the part in which I referred to 'wholesome androgyny'.

Believe me, I generally think like you most of the time on these so-called 'issues', but since it is women's day, and since it seems to have gone unremembered, I'd at least like people to know.

[piratesarerad]

ah nah mate I've got no beef with the way you expressed yourself or how you described said event

it is the principal behind the whole thing that seems slightly at odds
it's cool everyone meeting up and celebrating individuality, but celebrating oppression, even to draw attention to how it is bad seems perverse. Demonstrating against oppression maybe.

Whilst all this may seem irrelevant, there is no mans day AND I FOR ONE WANT OUR NEEDS RECOGNISED

[theonlygremlin]

yes that's true, i guess, it's difficult to 'celebrate' women's day without implying that men are still somehow to blame and creating more divisions. absolutely.

man's day is SO already part of wo-man's day. in fact, i don't think it's gender-specific at all, i think anyone that's like, "woah man" can join in. we should have woah man celebrations! i don't quite know what they might involve, probably a lot of heavily profound shit about like...the size of the universe, and stuff.