How often had I overlooked women's contributions ? ( lemmy.ml ) Englisch

rekabis , vor 4 Monaten

A woman’s cycle varies between 15 and 45 days, averaging 28.1 days, but with a standard deviation of 3.95 days. That’s a hell of a lot of variability from one woman to the next. And the same variability can be experienced by a large minority of women from one period to the next, and among nearly all women across the course of their fertile years.

On the other hand, the moon’s cycle (as seen from Earth) takes 27 days, 7 hours, and 43 minutes to pass through all of its phases. And it does so like clockwork, century after century.

Of the two, I am finding the second to have a much stronger likelihood of being the reasoning behind the notches.

Strange how gender-bigotry style historical revisionism and gender exceptionalism seems to get a wholly uncritical and credulous pass when it’s not done by a man.

SqueakyBeaver , vor 4 Monaten

I doubt the teacher really believed this, and they were likely striving to just open their students' minds to the idea that most innovations are probably assumed to be made by men

rekabis , vor 4 Monaten

Why not use a real and confirmed example, then? Because they do exist.

Making a story up - such that it can be actively undermined - certainly does the job poorly at best, and actively hurts the objective at worst.

GeneralEmergency , vor 4 Monaten

I am sure the comments on this meme community post in a niche social media site will not be filled with butthurt men's rights activists.

Sotuanduso , vor 4 Monaten

You could have at least used the term "misogynist" so as to not imply that men's rights are a bad thing.

TurtleJoe , vor 4 Monaten

Hey, we found one!

Not seriously, "men's rights activists" are a specific group of people that only exist to complain about and hate women. They don't care about men's rights, they are anti-feminists.

If you genuinely didn't know this, then I'd love to know what Internet rock You've been hiding under. If you're trying to concern troll, fuck off, MRAs are fucking scum.

-signed, a man.

Sotuanduso , vor 4 Monaten

I've definitely heard of misogynists, and of misogynists disguising themselves as legitimate men's advocates, but I'd never heard of "men's rights activists" as a specific group of misogynists before this.

Without this explanation, had someone said "men's rights activists are misogynists," I would have thought they were a misandrist, because it sounds like a general descriptor and not a specific group.

So what do you call it when someone who's not a misogynist advocates for equal treatment in the areas where men get the short end of the stick?

Z3k3 , vor 4 Monaten

I always read this type of statement as man = species.

I know this particular thinking is falling out of fashion but it's not totally dead yet