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Affirmative action is sexism and misandry : Comments
By Babette Francis, published 5/12/2012It is some other hapless bloke down the line who will miss out on a job or a promotion to make these CEOs feel good.
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Note the language used by the gender griefers, "Affirmed", ""Empowered" etc ?
There's a difference between a strong woman and an empowered woman, a strong woman earns respect and prestige by her own agency, an empowered woman relinquishes her agency to another in exchange for prestige or favourable treatment.
An "Empowered" woman who wholly relies totally upon the affirmation and patronage of others is nothing but the embodiment of the archetypes around which feminist mythology is based, the armless Venus on her pedestal, the bird in the gilded cage or the hapless drudge of Dickensian folklore.
The public service and academia are full of "empowered" women who rely on the state as their patron, they are not strong women, strong women instinctively know they cannot and should not compete with men but accept that strong virtuous femininity and strong virtuous masculinity are always complimentary.