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You got ahead of me Dan!
Didn't mean to steal your thunder. You outshine me ten fold however, certainly in this area.
To use the cake analogy again, if Sunshine joined a club especially for people who think chocolate is good, but cheescake is bad, but then joined another club with precisely the opposite views .... it wouldn't make her unbiased, it would make her a schizophreniac!!
However chocolate cake and cheese cake do not have a symbiotic relationship that can not be seperated from. It is not like the two cakes are reliant on eachother for survival of the individual and of the species.
However as you say it's a defence mechanism. Sunshine has often mentioned she is a feminist since she arrived. She has never once claimed to be a masculist too. It's inconceivable she would have not mentioned her "dual loyalty" if that was really how she identified herself.
Mostly I don't blame these women, most of them read feminism at face value. In most respects you or I and most on this board know more about feminism than most "feminists".
Besides, masculists are NOT the opposite of feminists any more than the KKK are the opposite of the NAACP. Masculists do NOT oppress women, but only seek equality, albeit it I agree with you that their approach is subject to abuse.
I dissagree, but agree with your version that in their approach is key to maintaining civility.
I dissagree that masculinist will not fall into the same trap, I believe it will and I see signs of it everyday. I also believe that for those men who take up masculinism help to perpetuate that said ideology. Masculinism can not become a term or to have the same "cultish like" resemblance or loyalty in anyways. It excludes the one in the long run, it's right there in the name. Adapting it to our psyche could be fatal.
We spoke about this before and you told me that there seems to be no choice. You might very well be right because who else is going to dig up the facts and deal with the government?
Personally, I feel that whole scheme of things is not men vs women, but collective control vs individual rights. With the way feminists operate it is their intention that it not only be women in positions of politics, but women who are contorting policies in a certain direction. Otherwise.......they hate them. Erin Pizzey is always a prime example. A woman who tried to find a solution to domestic voilence shut down because of ideology, not inaccuracy.