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Old 2008-12-21, 22:28   Link #10
Ronin Aquila
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Jedi Temple, Coruscant
Age: 43
Firstly, Mystique, my apologies.

If only more feminists are reasonable and decent people like you rather than people who are like my father's second daughter.

And believe it or not, Taiwan, my homeland, was the country I was referring to, where "Daddy's little girl" routhinely beat their fathers to death with baseball bats and axes.

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Originally Posted by WanderingKnight View Post
There are lots of cultural reasons that explain the "don't hit women" rule, and most of them don't have any sort of ground on inherent qualities of men and women. In fact, feminist women should realize that such rules sometimes date to ancient traditions and an old preconception of how a family works--which is exactly the sort of thing they strive to get rid of.
Unfortunately, as said by Guidohunter, a regrettably large number use that tradition as a loophole to gain "empowerment" from being allowed to strike-and-abuse whom-ever they wish.

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