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[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is no absolute right and absolute wrong to gender equality

Except there absolutely is an absolute right and absolute wrong to gender equality (and more importantly, equity) - the genders are either equal or they're not. You've either achieved equality, or you haven't. You either want equality, or you don't.

And you clearly don't.

Lie to yourself and make up as much pseudo scientific nonsense as you like, but it won't change that you're just another wilfully ignorant self serving misogynist who is wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] macrocarpa@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Except there absolutely is an absolute right and absolute wrong to gender equality (and more importantly, equity)

There is not. Equality is arbitrary. Equity is arbitrary. They are ideals / values that we each hold individually, and rank individually. Clearly, equality is an important value for you. Good. But your value of equality is shaped by you, not anyone else.

If you take your value set and say this should be the value set which everyone else has - you won't change them. That's my point. Equality is a value. It is ranked amongst other values. Do you value equality more than security? Financial independence? Safety? Control? Family? Social status? Faith? Children? Education? Career? Mastery of skill? Respect? Knowledge? Influence? Conservatism? Freedom? The environment?

For a given person you engage with, whether it be online, in person, in a relationship, over the phone, randomly in a street - their value set is intrinsic to them. Equality might not rank in their top five, or ten values. When you speak up on equality and say "you should", people who don't share your value set hear something different. What they hear is "You are wrong". Speaking of which:

And you clearly don't

you're just another wilfully ignorant self serving misogynist who is wrong

sigh

That's a shame. I'm sorry that you feel that way. Have to say it's the first time I've been called a misogynist. I think if you met me you wouldn't think that at all.

Your opinion of me doesn't really matter - it doesn't change anything. What did change things for me was reading The Mental Load by Emma. It crystallised what I already knew, and helped me to better understand the difference between contribution, effort and load.

Do you want to know why?

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