One thing about actual feminism is that women want equal rights. It’s not as if they want to be treated like some delicate flowers who can do no wrong and are pure angels. Women are no different from men when it comes to cruelty and such. Just cast your eyes on our history, and you will see that most Queens weren’t so peace loving as we would like.
So people who put women on a pedestal are actually doing more harm than good. We are humans as well and that means we make mistakes. Nobody is perfect and being a female has nothing to do with that. So when award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore tweeted about how women are much better than men when it comes to morality, many people were rightly pi**ed about that.
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My initial response was actually very personal. I had been struggling with anxiety issues and going to therapy, where I realized I thought the fact that I had dark thoughts sometimes made me a bad person. I had also come to realize that part of the reason I felt this gender gap is that women are raised on a doctrine of purity and that Moore (who I respect greatly as a filmmaker) was furthering that concept.
When you are taught that all women are naturally sweet and wonderful, you can feel extra-extra crazy if you feel anger or depression or anxiety. It’s bad for women’s mental health to be held to an unrealistic purity standard. -Ellis
People are people. Gender does not affect morality. Skin colour does not affect morality. Humans as a species are capable of great things, both terrible and wonderful, and that is true of all humans. We are far more the same as we ever are different, even if we do as a species persist in obsessing over small, pointless, and stupid differences. People are people. That is all. -Peter Bear
The problem is that, historically, women are always being shoved into moulds that represent absolutes. We are neither all the demon Lilith, on the one hand, or the Virgin Mary, on the other. We’re just people. Numerically, I think we have committed fewer of the world’s atrocities, but that’s due to circumstances, not nature. -Kimberly Robinson
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