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#Post#: 13115--------------------------------------------------
Colonialism and sexism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 27, 2022, 9:25 pm
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As I have always maintained, Western civilization is more, not
less, sexist than those which it colonized:
HTML https://theconversation.com/how-colonialism-is-a-major-cause-of-domestic-abuse-against-women-around-the-world-179257
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> Postcolonial scholars have been telling us as much for
decades. From widespread poverty to racial discrimination and
gender inequalities, colonisation put in place systems and
structures that are often at the root of heightened violence
against women.
>
> Colonial policies
>
> Many colonial systems of governance were based on
“racialising” the local population: categorising and
marginalising groups of people according to race or ethnicity.
For example, the divisions between Hindus and Muslims in
pre-partition India and the racial hierarchy instituted in
apartheid South Africa. These divisions have provided the fodder
for many of the world’s contemporary armed conflicts. Scholars
talk about colonial durabilities to describe the way in which
colonial histories continue to actively shape the world today.
> ...
> Many colonial systems of governance also established
regulations and legal frameworks that were particularly damaging
for women. Despite the fact that both men and women were in
positions of leadership in pre-colonial Nigeria, British
colonial officials refused to negotiate with female chiefs. They
also put in place a system of land ownership that explicitly
excluded women.
>
> The legacy of these policies is that women are still far less
likely to own land than men in Nigeria. A recent study of
national data has shown that women who do not own land are more
likely to report domestic violence than those that do. This is
because land ownership gives women income and power within a
relationship. It also gives them options when they need
somewhere to go. Women who have power and alternatives are
simply less likely to put up with violence and more likely to
leave.
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HTML https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/whp-origins/era-7-the-great-convergence-and-divergence-1880-ce-to-the-future/74-end-of-empires-betaa/a/read-decolonizing-women-beta
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> Women suffered more under colonial rule than men. In addition,
early histories of the time ignore women's struggles for
independence. Women don't appear much in the official records of
that time because they were forbidden to participate in
government or business. In some cases, colonial rulers forced
women to live as Europeans thought they should, as mothers,
wives and home keepers. But before European occupation those
same women may have held positions of power in their community.
>
> Colonial rulers and warrant chiefs in Nigeria
>
> Colonial rulers generally only accepted males in roles of
authority. For example, before colonial times, communities in
Southeastern Nigeria were run by groups of men and women rather
than single leaders. But colonial occupiers would only work with
male "chiefs." Since there weren't any, the British chose random
men to be leaders and called these men "warrant chiefs." These
warrant chiefs―supported by colonial rulers―acted as
judges and had a lot of power. This included power often over
women who had previously been a part of political rule. Women
also struggled to make money under colonial rule. In many West
African societies before colonialism, women farmed and
participated in local business. Most able-bodied women were
either farmers or merchants. In southern Nigeria, for example,
all members of a family farmed the family land.
>
> Women helped produce important crops like palm oil in Igbo
societies, and cocoa in the Yoruba societies. However, British
colonialists brought the concept of individual land ownership to
Nigeria and only allowed men to be landowners, so women found it
difficult to make money from these important cash crops. In some
areas however, like among the Igbo, women tried to hold on to
their historic role as cultivators and market sellers.
>
> Women participate in anti-colonial actions
>
> Igbo women's knowledge of farming and business helped them
resist unfair British laws. In 1929, the British began unfairly
taxing women in southeastern Nigeria. These women protested at
warrant chief's offices and attacked colonial buildings to
demand an end to unfair taxes and the warrant chief system. The
women used protest methods that were historically used by Igbo
women to express their disapproval of men who abused their
power. The women danced, sang songs about their poor treatment,
and destroyed courthouses. This protest was known as the Aba
Women's Rebellion and lasted two months. The protest ended on
December 17th, 1929. During the protest, the British military
fired into crowds of protestors and killed 55 women.
> ...
> European colonizers forced women out of jobs, took property
from them, and removed them from government roles. Many things
made it difficult for women to be a part of fighting
colonialism. They were forced to be dependent on men, had less
rights than men, could not own land and could not even earn
money.
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See also:
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HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/social-decolonization/msg4458/#msg4458
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/re-genghis-khan/msg4142/#msg4142
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/aryan-fingers/msg659/#msg659
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/re-sexual-dimorphism-preferences/msg1258/#msg1258
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg5632/#msg5632
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg5678/#msg5678
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Re: Colonialism and sexism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 19, 2022, 3:46 am
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Offshooting from:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/legal-decolonization/msg13434/#msg13434
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> Law enforcement in ancient China was carried out by "prefects"
for thousands of years since it developed in both the Chu and
Jin kingdoms of the Spring and Autumn period. In Jin, dozens of
prefects were spread across the state, each having limited
authority and employment period. They were appointed by local
magistrates, who reported to higher authorities such as
governors, who in turn were appointed by the emperor, and they
oversaw the civil administration of their "prefecture", or
jurisdiction. Under each prefect were "subprefects" who helped
collectively with law enforcement in the area. Some prefects
were responsible for handling investigations, much like modern
police detectives. Prefects could also be women.[13]
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_criminal_justice#Ancient_China
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> An example of a female prefect would be Lady Qu[4] of Wuding
(serving 1531 – c. 1557).
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Comparing with Western countries:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_law_enforcement
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> The first female police officers in Australia were appointed
in New South Wales in July 1915
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> Women have played an important role in enforcement since the
early 1990s in Austria.
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> On September 16, 1974, thirty-two women are sworn in with the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police as their first female officers.
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> In Germany, women were employed in the police force from 1903
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> in 1923, Meta Kehrer became the first woman Inspector of the
Dutch police force
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> the New Zealand Police did not admit women as police officers
until 1941.
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> Poland ... Finally, on February 26, 1925, the
Commander-in-Chief of the State Police signed a decree allowing
women to work in the State Police.
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> In 1908, the first three women, Agda Hallin, Maria Andersson
and Erica Ström, were employed in the Swedish Police Authority
in Stockholm
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> United Kingdom ... The first woman to be appointed a police
officer with full powers of arrest was Edith Smith (1876–1923),
who was sworn in to Grantham Borough Police in August 1915.
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> The first policewomen in the United States included Marie
Owens, who joined the Chicago Police department in 1891; Lola
Baldwin, who was sworn in by the city of Portland in 1908; Fanny
Bixby, also sworn into office in 1908 by the city of Long Beach,
California; and Alice Stebbins Wells, who was initiated into the
Los Angeles Police Department in 1910.[24]
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Re: Colonialism and sexism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 9, 2022, 11:50 pm
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scold's_bridle
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> First recorded in Scotland in 1567, the branks were also used
in England and its colonies.
> ...
> Escrava Anastacia ("Anastacia the female slave") is a
Brazilian folk saint said to have died from wearing a punitive
iron muzzle.
>
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escrava_Anastacia
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> She is often purported to have possessed tremendous healing
powers and to have performed other miracles. Eventually, she is
punished by her owners by being forced to wear a muzzle-like
facemask, which prevents her from speaking, and a heavy iron
collar. The reasons given for this punishment vary: some stories
report her aiding in the escape of other slaves, others claim
she resisted rape by her master, and yet another places the
blame on a mistress jealous of Anastacia's beauty. After a
prolonged period of suffering, all the while performing more
miracles of healing and peace, Anastacia dies of tetanus from
the collar.
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But we are supposed to believe Western civilization is less
sexist than non-Western civilizations.....
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Re: Colonialism and sexism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 4, 2022, 10:30 pm
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Nothing has changed, by the way:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNEkQgTAE3M
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Re: Colonialism and sexism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 13, 2022, 12:47 am
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All the following are exclusively Western behaviours:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/women-sharing-gentlemanly-behaviors-actually-184602282.html
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> Women Are Revealing The "White Knight" Behaviors Men Do That
Are Actually Pretty Disrespectful
> ...
> some "good deeds" don't come off as "kind" or "polite" at all.
Instead, they can feel condescending, creepy, infantilizing, or
worse: all of the above.
> ...
> 1."Offering to help you and not backing off, regardless of
what you say. My cousin is very beautiful and often has men
offering help left and right in an effort to get in her good
graces — except they keep offering when she says no. And they
keep offering. And they keep pushing. It's basically a thinly
veiled 'let me get close to you,' and they won't take no for an
answer. It's extremely disrespectful."
>
> —u/peachandpeony
>
> 2."When people try to put words in my mouth, like, 'what I
think she meant was...' No, no, no. I said what I said, all
questions can be directed to me."
>
> —u/CatrionaShadowleaf
>
> 3."When someone interrupts or stops telling a story to
apologize for the profanities being used in front of me."
>
> —u/smellycatsmelllycat
>
> "Or you're in a group conversation with some men and one of
them swears, so another man cuts him off and scolds him because
I'm there. What is this, the 1850s? I promise I won't faint."
>
> —u/crazynekosama
>
> 4."People insisting on carrying things for me. I worked in a
warehouse for years and can’t count how many times I got told
that the lifting should be left for the ‘men.’ I was usually the
only employee on shift, and if I left all the lifting for the
men, then I just wouldn’t be employed."
>
> —u/Ill_Task_257
>
> 5."Any time a man is speaking for or 'defending' a woman and
he gets extremely possessive, and you can tell that he’s more
offended because she’s HIS, and it’s therefore disrespectful to
HIM, than he is concerned about her feelings. 'That’s MY WIFE,'
'don’t talk about MY wife that way...'"
>
> —u/lizard_ladder
>
> 6."When they try to mansplain to me about how to do my job."
>
> —u/Bebe_Bleau
>
> 7."Speaking on my behalf because I didn't answer right away.
Like, I don't care if you've known me my whole life, you don't,
under any circumstances, speak for me. I have a voice."
>
> —u/SlimJimLahey
>
> 8."Insisting on walking me to my car. No one has insisted on
this with good intentions, so stop pretending you are protecting
me."
>
> —u/weewee52
>
> 9."Kissing my hand when first meeting me. Please, no."
>
> —u/Holybull79
>
> 10."Babying pregnant women because they 'need protection,'
including from themselves. When I was pregnant, one of my
coworkers told on me to my husband (we work at the same company)
because he thought the box I was carrying was too heavy for a
pregnant woman to be carrying."
>
> —u/fireflygalaxies
>
> 11."Men I don't know calling me 'honey,' 'sweetheart,' or any
variation of that. It happens less now that I'm older, thank
god."
>
> —u/emshlaf
>
> 12."Walking you home after a first date, especially when you
don't know them well. Like, okay, maybe there's good intent, but
statistically, the guy I just started dating is more of a risk
than the possibility of some random stranger-danger attack on a
busy, well-lit city street. Until I know a guy better, I
emphatically don't want to give them my address. I once told a
guy all that out of sheer exasperation when he wouldn't accept
my 'no, thank you'. He was...not happy."
>
> —u/sharksnack3264
>
> 13."Taking tools away from me while I'm using them because
they are 'thinking of my safety.' Like, no, it's not safe to try
and take my axe out of my hands mid-swing."
>
> —u/notanotherkrazychik
>
> 14."Those cringe-y 'POV' TikToks where a guy acts out an
imaginary scenario where he saves a girl from being
harassed/assaulted. They just love imagining that a woman is
being hurt, just so they can be a hero. And there's always epic,
movie-type music playing in the background."
>
> —u/No_Natural2495
>
> 15."If I'm holding a door already for everyone to get in, and
a man has to make it awkward by trying to be gentlemanly and
hold the door for me. You're causing a traffic jam, then making
it awkward holding the door also, so now I gotta do a weird
shimmy under your arm, or go around you somehow to go inside. I
hate it."
>
> —u/TenaciousToffee
>
> 16.And finally, "Men I don’t know being 'gentlemanly' and
letting me walk up the stairs in front of them when I’m wearing
a short skirt or shorts. This usually happens with repairmen in
my house."
>
> —u/Late_Significance519
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Re: Colonialism and sexism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 23, 2022, 7:11 pm
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Our enemies writing a pro-patriarchy article that inadvertently
reveals both Western civilization's greater patriarchy than
non-Western civilizations, and Western civilization's
(inaccurate) bigoted presumption that non-Western civilizations
are just as patriarchal:
HTML https://www.eurocanadians.ca/2022/08/the-tragedy-of-modern-love.html
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> There is no female equivalent to the heroic stories of men
killing dragons to save female virgins. Female fragility
inspires male sacrifice while male fragility inspires female
abandonment. The list goes on and on and on. It’s not just that
women don’t prove love through sacrifice (in relation to adult
men), it’s that they won’t even pretend to express such passions
in their art, films, and literature as a matter of superficial
virtue signaling.
--- End Quote ---
Our enemies obviously do not watch Sailor Moon. But rather than
use this or numerous other easy Counterculture-era
counterexamples, I feel it would be even more convincing to
prove our enemies wrong using an ancient counterexample:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_White_Snake
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> the white and green snakes transform themselves into two young
women called Bai Suzhen (白素貞) and Xiaoqing
(小青), respectively. They meet Xu Xian at the
Broken Bridge in Hangzhou. Xu Xian lends them his umbrella
because it is raining. Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen gradually fall in
love and are eventually married. They move to Zhenjiang, where
they open a medicine shop.
>
> In the meantime, the terrapin spirit has accumulated enough
powers to take on human form, so he transforms into a Buddhist
monk called Fahai (法海). Still angry with Bai
Suzhen, Fahai plots to break up her relationship with Xu Xian.
He approaches Xu Xian and tells him that during the Duanwu
Festival his wife should drink realgar wine, an alcoholic drink
commonly consumed during that festival. Bai Suzhen
unsuspectingly drinks the wine and reveals her true form as a
large white snake. Xu Xian dies of shock after seeing that his
wife is not human. Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing travel to Mount Emei,
where they brave danger to steal a magical herb that restores Xu
Xian to life.
>
> After coming back to life, Xu Xian still maintains his love
for Bai Suzhen despite knowing her true nature. Fahai tries to
separate them again by capturing Xu Xian and imprisoning him at
the Jinshan Temple. Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing fight with Fahai to
rescue Xu Xian.
--- End Quote ---
In other words, of course stories of women rescuing men exist in
literature, just not in traditional Western literature.
Better still, Legend of the White Snake even covers the
inferiority of natalism:
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> However, her powers are limited because she is already
pregnant with Xu Xian's child, so she fails to save her husband.
--- End Quote ---
The true hero of the story is the one who did not reproduce:
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> At the same time, Xiaoqing, who had spent the intervening
years refining her powers, goes to the Jinshan Temple to
confront Fahai and defeats him.
--- End Quote ---
But I digress.
You can read the whole enemy article if you want to laugh at our
enemies' inferiority. Their main point is:
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> This is why women need to be taught to submit to male
authority.
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This is why Western civilization needs to be killed.
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Re: Colonialism and sexism
DIR By: guest78
Date: August 24, 2022, 3:17 pm
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> 1."Offering to help you and not backing off, regardless of
what you say. My cousin is very beautiful and often has men
offering help left and right in an effort to get in her good
graces — except they keep offering when she says no. And they
keep offering. And they keep pushing. It's basically a thinly
veiled 'let me get close to you,' and they won't take no for an
answer. It's extremely disrespectful."
--- End Quote ---
Although not sexism, people in general thinking their helping a
person by doing something that person has never asked them to
do, or never having even asked for help in the first place, is
extremely disrespectful also! This scenario seems to be
particularly western behavior as well. As pointed out on the
main site, if someone has not asked for help and someone else
attempts to help them, the person believing that they are
helping are in fact telling the other person that they are not
confident in their ability to perform the task they are
attempting.
Don't try and help people who haven't explicitly asked for help,
it's extremely disrespectful!
#Post#: 15360--------------------------------------------------
Re: Colonialism and sexism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 27, 2022, 4:38 pm
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Gender segregation is sports is Western, because it is
Westerners who are most obsessed with sexual dimorphism:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/christian-school-won-t-play-120000084.html
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> The Lions football team of Valley Christian Academy — a small
private school in the Central Coast city of Santa Maria — is
once again refusing to play against girls.
>
> That’s in spite of the fact that it’s becoming more common for
girls to plays football, especially in California.
>
> And it’s in spite of the fact that VCA already is facing one
lawsuit because it refused to play against Cuyama High’s
football team last year. That squad included a female wide
receiver whose mother filed the suit.
>
> Now VCA, which is affiliated with First Baptist Church, could
be on the receiving end of even more backlash for forfeiting an
upcoming game against Coast Union High, a public high school in
Cambria where two girls are on the football team.
>
> The reason for the boycott?
>
> The school administration says playing football with girls
conflicts with the “guiding principles of the Bible regarding
the care of a woman,” according a legal document filed in the
Cuyama case.
> ...
> “We are not raising our daughters to be ‘fighters’ the same
way we are with our sons,” Nancy Wilson wrote in an article
published on the Christian website Reformed Perspective. “The
goal we have in mind in raising sons is to inculcate
masculinity. And we want our daughters to embrace a godly
femininity, not a worldly feminism.”
>
> But as far as the U.S. government is concerned, girls have the
right to play whatever sport they choose, no matter what the
Bible says.
> ...
> Ironically, Valley Christian scrimmaged against Cuyama High
last year, which apparently went smoothly until the female
player took off her helmet at the end of the game.
>
> “Upon seeing her gender, the observers, coaches and
administrators of Valley Christian glared at (the player) while
shaking their heads in disbelief,” according to a court filing.
>
> A few days later, Cuyama High’s superintendent received a
letter stating that the female player — whose identity has not
been disclosed — would no longer be welcome to play football at
the Valley Christian campus.
>
> The player was left “humiliated, embarrassed and shocked by
the public display of unwelcomed reactions,” according to the
case file.
>
> Of course she was. One minute, she’s treated as an equal on
the playing field. The next, she’s treated like a pariah who
should trade her helmet and pads for a spoon and apron?
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Contrast with:
HTML https://bleacherreport.com/articles/228587-history-of-football-cuju
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> it seems the first games in which the main technique involved
kicking a ball originated in China. The game of Cuju was also
played in Korea, Japan and Vietnam and dated back to the fourth
century BC.
> ...
> Female clubs also developed where women could play up against
each other and men. Often the women were more skillful at the
game than the men and it is said that one time a 17-year-old
girl beat a full team of soldiers on her own.
--- End Quote ---
Back to first link; the solution is Cancel Culture:
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> Fortunately, there’s a simple solution that can be reached
outside of the courtroom.
>
> Either the Valley Christian Academy Lions agree to play —
whether or not girls are on the opposing team — or they withdraw
from the league.
>
> If they won’t withdraw, CIF can show them the door.
--- End Quote ---
(Additionally, note that if gender segregation in sports had not
been instituted in the first place, the present-day controversy
over which team transgender athletes should be playing in
wouldn't even exist because there wouldn't be separate teams to
begin with!)
Related:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/true-left-breakthrough-degendering/
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Re: Colonialism and sexism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 6, 2022, 7:59 pm
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Purely for entertainment:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnI5S6WNQsM
This happened only because gendered toilets exist in the first
place. And yes, gendered toilets are Western:
HTML https://time.com/4337761/history-sex-segregated-bathrooms/
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> Why Do We Have Men's and Women's Bathrooms Anyway?
>
> Though the first sex-segregated toilets were established in
Paris in the 1700s, regulations requiring that American men and
women use separate restrooms got their start in the late 1800s.
The first regulation requiring separate toilet facilities for
men and women was passed in 1887, when Massachusetts required
the establishment of separate privies in businesses. “Wherever
male and female persons are employed in the same factory or
workshop, a significant number of separate and distinct
water-closets, earth-closets, or privies shall be provided for
the use of each sex and should be plainly designated,” the law
reads. In the next line, mixed use of such facilities is
prohibited. Over the course of the next three decades, nearly
every state passed its own version of that law.
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Re: Colonialism and sexism
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 19, 2022, 3:24 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARfoh0hmWv8
Again, Western civilization is the most patriarchist
civilization. The above phenomenon and the uniquely Western
legal prohibition of polygamy are in fact two manifestations of
the same ultra-patriarchist attitude: both are based on the
notion that every man (no matter how awful a person he is) is
entitled to keep a woman. (Not coincidentally, it was Western
men who came up with the notion of an "incel" based on the same
sense of entitlement being unmet.) This attitude is thoroughly
alien to non-Western civilizations, whose men have no such
equivalent patriarchist rapport with other men in evenly
distributing women.
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