Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/I missed the end of the semantic quibbling.../reply

Do you agree that our society disadvantages women from literally the day they are born? Do you agree that becoming successful for a woman is X times (who knows how much that is) harder than it is for a man? Do you agree that the education system, the employment sector, the political world are and have been focused on men and that women trying to gain access to those fields face a serious uphill battle that is simply not comparable to what men face?

I'm tired of your idiotic semantic game. If you really want to talk about the state of women in the US, in small communities in the US, on Reservations, and in virtually every country in the world - we can. But saying to me "you got your degree" is not an argument against the fact that sexism is rampant and systematic in our culture, and that the likelihood of me "getting my degree" has as much to do with some extremely serious and damaging hardships in early life that most women will not face, but which left me largely un"womanized" in some very important ways.

it's a shoddy fucking argument to say "one person succeeded, therefor there is no 'ism' out there against that class". yet it's exactly your first tack.

I find your arguments endlessly vapid and diverting. Especially in areas you are so *sure* you know, but really are not that well experienced (note, not informed, experienced) in. To be honest, you are clearly better read than I, and probably more intelligent. So it bugs me when you fall to this line of argument.