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WCDT: 2201-2205 (4-8 June 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Akima:
--- Quote from: El_Flesh on 08 Jun 2012, 07:36 ---There is no way that the position of women in Canada is the same it was in 1972! No way in hell! It was different even in 1982! Maybe some aspects are similar. But I'd really like some examples, and I'm sure you have references that would show the situation to be so dire?!?
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I'm sure people made misogynistic "jokes" like some in this thread in 1970, so that certainly hasn't changed :( Yeah, if a woman has opinions and states them forcefully, there is something wrong with her and she needs a good dicking to fix her... Never mind 1970, this idea was popular in 1870, and it seems it's still alive, kicking and provoking sniggers today.
I never claimed that nothing had changed for women in forty years, but rather that many, probably most, of the issues that angered Germaine Greer in 1970 still face women today. I don't know what kind of carefully constructed obliviousness would be allow someone to feel that I needed to give them evidence of that.
Near Lurker:
The heavyset black girl is Monique, the Asian East Asian tall girl Lana, and the curly one Curly (real name Josephine)?
Barmymoo:
It is certainly possible to point to changes in certain aspects of society - for instance women's employment is more common, sexual freedom is more acceptable, there is legislation against gender discrimination. But the overarching issues are still the same: institutional sexism, systematic societal disadvantage against women, and a belief that women "should" behave in a certain way or are not proper women.
DSL:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 08 Jun 2012, 12:36 ---... and that she should be treated with respect at work.
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God forbid. </sarcasm>
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 09 Jun 2012, 01:12 ---So does this mean that Tai's definitely a grad student? I don't think her major/year was ever said in comic.
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She's a TA, for whatever that's worth.
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