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I'm a good feminist today, rah rah.  I was talking with my coworker about the case I posted about yesterday, where a guy killed his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend, then himself.

C: Well, that's hardly surprising.  Look at what society tells us – to want more than we can have, to be jealous…
X: …that women are less…
C: No no, I mean back from that.
X: How can you go back from that?  Jealousy is wanting to keep what you have, right?
C: Yes.
X: Well, part of the societal message is that women are, among other things, property.
C: But you're breaking it down too far.
X: No, I'm not.  Part of the message is that women are less.  It's not some sort of after-thought.  Besides, I'm female, I can't exactly not pay attention to that part*.

And then we moved over to discussing how marriage only became about love in roughly the 1950s.

* W-ell, technically, I could, but you know what I mean.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

February 2022

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