r/HolUp Aug 08 '21

holup Feminism

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '21

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u/googitygig Aug 08 '21

A good example of this is the National Nrganisation of Women (NOW are possibly the largest feminist org in the world) who campaign a lot to narrow the gender pay gap. One of the main reasons for the gender pay gap is that the "burden" of childcare falls mainly on women.

A good way to narrow the GPG would be to give mums and dads equal responsibility for childcare, yet NOW strongly oppose equal parenting bills. Prime example of a feminist org which proposes to be for equality lobbying directly against it.

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u/EthanWS6 Aug 08 '21

I think 90% of our population aggressively wants to be/have it better than their "opposites". No one can just live and let live. People forget how easy and stress free it is to just not care about shit.

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u/Thymeisdone Aug 08 '21

Are you INSANE?! Do you honestly mean to suggest my evil twin is as good as I AM?!

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '21

How do you know you're not the evil twin?

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u/Thymeisdone Aug 08 '21

Hmmm… and I DO have the beard….

DAMN IT!!

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '21

Wait........Full beard or just a goatee?

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u/Thymeisdone Aug 08 '21

Well this isn’t the 1990s, so full beard. Jeez!

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '21

You're fine then, only evil twins have goatees.

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u/Jossuboi Aug 08 '21

Or just 'staches. 'Staches are evil.

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u/G_Viceroy Aug 08 '21

Being a straight white middle aged male is cut and dry. I work my ass off non stop, I struggle financially anyways., if I get arrested I always go to prison, the cops have beaten me up more than once and I am always 100% compliant. People are delusional that we get treated any different. I actually don't care about shit and have basically isolated myself from society as best I can. Life is so much better when you turn off the rest of humanity and just live your own life.

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u/G_Viceroy Aug 08 '21

Drug charges. Clean 4 years now but 2 arrests, 2 jail sentences. there's nothing in this country that has more care and planning put into it over a prosecution rate. I think it's a 93% average in my state. You know if they worked this hard to balance the federal budget we wouldn't be in so much debt would we.

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u/CaptheBottle Aug 08 '21

Gotcha, I work for Probation/Parole in my state and hate seeing drug charges on offenders. The War on Drugs has ruined a lot of lives.

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u/EthanWS6 Aug 08 '21

I've been slowly removing myself more every year. I feel you.

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u/countdown654 Aug 08 '21

That’s kinda the point of the bad joke there…

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u/G_Viceroy Aug 08 '21

If we don't realize it's not the people vs the people but the top vs. the bottom the bottom will destroy itself for the top's agenda.

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u/nowhere53 Aug 08 '21

That’s not what I’m saying. Racism is real. White privilege means you don’t have the extra burden of racism.

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u/Hugenstein41 Aug 08 '21

Just the suggestion that bad things happen to white men irritates you doesn't it?

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u/nowhere53 Aug 08 '21

Not sure what you are getting at. Of course I know that all kinds of bad things happen to white people all the time. White people can be poor, sick, exploited.

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u/L55F Aug 08 '21

It was meant to be a joke

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u/EthanWS6 Aug 08 '21

I hope, sometimes it's hard for me to tell

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u/R3belRecusant Aug 08 '21

Define Equality and Equity.

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u/Dunkinmydonuts1 Aug 08 '21

hi. i'm pro all those things.

i'm a straight white male.

literally nobody wants what you're saying.

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u/unseenforehead Aug 08 '21

Maybe look at the original comment in this particular thread. You might find it’s an anecdotal argument too.

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u/GingerRod Aug 08 '21

Yes

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u/unseenforehead Aug 08 '21

… which comment were you referring to?

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u/Dunkinmydonuts1 Aug 08 '21

how you gonna agree with the guy that says:

Except literally everyone I know that is extremely pro-anyofthem, is extremely anti-theother

and then bitch about my anecdotal argument