posted by CenterBHSFan

Women couldn't vote before I was born. 

muh oppression!

Yea I mean that’s definitely an apples to apples comparison. You just slayed me lol . 

posted by geeblock

Yea I mean that’s definitely an apples to apples comparison. You just slayed me lol . 

How do you know what it's like to be born into a culture and life of womanhood, gee? How do you know what it is like to be born a female and knowing everything that's happened to women throughout history? How do you know what it's like to currently be a female knowing the injustices that are acted upon other women? 

All through history women were traded like chattel to be used as breeders, often for such trivial amounts like 17 goats. 

Women throughout history, with no way to feed themselves or any begotten children, resorting to selling their bodies for food and clothing. This degradation continues and we women shudder with horror when we consider this every day.

In the last few hundred years, women were often married to men not of their own choosing and, at times, met their husband for the first time at the altar. 

The very thought of the Malleus MALEficarum still brings a shiver of fear down the spine down our spines because the great witch hunt in Europe was perpetrated on mainly women.  All of the fear, mutilations, killings that were done to those women are still felt to this very day.

Artful and brilliant women writers, painters, sculptors, etc. worked in disguise either through appearance or pseudonyms just to be recognized for their work. All women feel the fatigue of it all to this day. 

When women were fighting for the right to vote, poor Emily Davison was savagely mowed down by a horse while she was trying to bring awareness to the victimhood of women. Countless other women beaten, imprisoned, sexually assaulted, maimed for life and even killed for our cause. Their struggles are still felt to this day.

Consider how much it stings when we women realize that republicans elected a black man into Congress in 1870, long before a woman was elected to Congress in 1917. Imagine what forty seven years difference it was! Women still feel this to this day.

Currently, there are unimaginable numbers of women being sold and traded as goods in the various slave trades. Women right now in large areas around the world can't even leave their house without covering their face and hair, lest some man desire them. Women all around the globe wake up each day feeling the pain and shame of this. 

All that I have listed, and a host of other examples, are true. Now think about how pointless it is to use those past injustices for every damn argument under the sun. What a waste of time. People have ridden that foundered horse until it can't walk anymore - to the point where most of society feels more badly for the horse than they do for the people riding it. 

But here's old geeblock posting old articles about MLK like it's going to help something today; going to help him win some sort of argument or debate. 

I have a dream! I have a dream that geeblock will admit that people of all persuasions, then and now, are flawed and will always use past grievances as weapons of manipulation to get what they want. It's just human nature. Sometimes groups win and sometimes those same groups lose. But we continue on living our daily lives without thinking of any of that shit. We aren't the Borg. We don't feel what happened to somebody else a month ago, let alone 40, 100, 500 years ago and so on. 

But what we do experience today is the progress that was made yesterday. I think we can all agree on that. 

Comparing what women have went through to what black people have went through and continue to go through is not apples to apples sorry .  I’m also all for helping women which is also a part of dei. It doesn’t have to be either or. 

“ no one is trying to use that for everything under the sun” that’s just stupid. 

I do also understand how it can be hard to understand or recognize discrimination or be sympathetic to it when you haven’t had to experience it. 

posted by geeblock

I do also understand how it can be hard to understand or recognize discrimination or be sympathetic to it when you haven’t had to experience it. 

This could be a true statement.

posted by geeblock

I do also understand how it can be hard to understand or recognize discrimination or be sympathetic to it when you haven’t had to experience it. 

Lol, still being condescending I see. 

You can’t make this shit up.