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you're railing against the observation, making discussion of the causes difficult and therefore possible solution discovery possible.

If we are to tackle social problems, we can't argue about language of the problem for fear of being branded as *ist

we don't do this about high blood pressure, or diabetes. The way you are arguing is actually a logical extension of the original observation in the parent. The original statement was actually present rather well.

You make the correct observation that women and men have the same mental faculties (if taken as a whole, individuals will vary.) However you make a grand gesture of pointing out that women and men are the same. We know this, the original post implied this.



No, you missed the point. It's not that men and women are the same. It's that men do understand societal pressures and it's sexist to imply otherwise.


The societal pressures tend to be different, and it is not sexist to say that members of each gender may not immediately understand the particulars of the pressure they receive.


take the diabetes example, by saying it is hard to understand what its like to have diabetes, does that make me a diabet-ist?

no. its just pointing out that empathy is a difficult skill.




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