AuroraSaab
Squire
No, but I do think you are mocking the fact that girls and women have to think about how they move through the world everyday because of their sex. It might seem amusing to you but it isn't to those of who have to think about it.It’s possible but that doesn’t explain why the women I’m closest to also express similar thoughts. Am I a bad influence on them?
Are you seriously saying no woman you know thinks about things like whether they will be able to get a bus home in the dark or have to walk? Or that they haven't modified their behaviour - like a running or cycling route - because of safety issues that wouldn't affect a man?
And if she were a mentally and physically disabled 10 year old? You would have no interest in if her intimate care giver were male or female? A male midwife or medic is different from intimate care.My daughter is a capable adult. As her parents our feelings are neither here nor there, but from previous chats around the topic of male midwifery I think she’d be cool with it as long as she liked the caregiver.
From researcher Jackson Katz's book when he asked his students what they do to avoid sexual assault:
You are either ignorant of how women's day to day lives are affected by simply being female, compared to how little their sex impacts men, or you know but don't really have much interest. Either way, it's a privileged position because your ignorance or apathy has no detrimental affect on you at all. You can afford to be either or both.