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Miss Madeira Darling: An illustration involving children

westacadia:

permutationofninjas:

just-smith:

Okay. So you’re a child. It’s your birthday. Your parents decide that they are going to take you and nine of your friends out to the zoo for the day.

Now, ten young excitable children are pretty hard to manage, so they decide to split you up into two…

Look, I am super on board with the idea of an artificial binary being the problem. Please don’t mistake what I’m about to say as a disagreement with that point.
What I take issue with is ignoring the FACT that the “blues” are able to exact control over the “reds” regardless of whether the system also applies to them or whether they created it. Privilege in this case isn’t so much lions versus penguins but the ability of the penguin group to make the decision that the other group doesn’t get to see the penguins. It’s not even a fault of the oversimplification. It’s the fault of telling the first three parts of the story in such a way to intentionally reach the fourth. There are serious chunks missing. It’s a bad allegory with a faulty premise. Sorry.

Agreeing with Mary here. I think the real problem with this allegory is at the very end, in the snarky here is what this really means in case you are really dense bit, the author doesn’t identify who the parents are in this situation. Y’know, the ones who, instead of finding out beforehand which animals the kids wanted to see most, arbitrarily assigned each group of kids into either “red” or “blue”. The author makes a vague statement involving the word “parents” in the end disclaimer, but tellingly the “random labeling of groups” is assigned to some thing. Hell, the author even calls it an “unbiased patriarchy”, which is probably the most ridiculous oxymoron I have ever heard.

In fact, I have whiplash a little bit from seeing that phrase. It is like the author went through and read a brief history of the feminism “waves” and then decided to condescendingly avoid the real problem here and talk down to all us “baby” feminists who are just really hurting those poor blue people who are so oppressed in our unbiased patriarchal system.

Y’know, the system that unbiasedly enforces (and has enforced) the superiority of one set of strict levels of gender expression almost throughout recorded history.

But, y’know, it does it unbiasedly. It doesn’t see gender, it just knows one is better and should be in charge.  

2012.01.30  2:44am  ∞

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    this is so perfect
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    OP raises a valid argument, that in order to fully understand an issue, one must objectively examine both sides of the...
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    doesn’treallyexist....morelikelytobearrested,
  16. just-smith reblogged this from iamawug and added:
    1) You didn’t. People generally don’t. What you did do was say ‘ah, this applies to everybody apart from me’. In stages...
  17. iamawug reblogged this from just-smith and added:
    okay, so, wait, what? WTF? 1.) where in my post did I say I was infallible? Please, point that out to me, because I...
  18. just-smith reblogged this from iamawug and added:
    But you’re infallible, so it’s impossible to consider that you yourself might be at stage 2, right? If white cis men...
  19. darkthoughtsbrightdays reblogged this from pluckyduck and added:
    quite disagree. I definitely agree that...system makes it difficult on men too, but...
  20. oh-well-whatnever-evermind reblogged this from thewestmezzanine and added:
    ^ In terms of this whole analogy, I think what you’re trying to say is that the fact that the red group doesn’t get to...
  21. chlorophyll reblogged this from inherhipstheresrevolutions and added:
    Differences in social status afforded...women and to men is
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  23. bloodmouthprince reblogged this from xyrophile and added:
    What a load of shit It’s also really funny that this person thinks they’re making some sort of great analogy, but it’s...
  24. green-street-politics reblogged this from callingonblueskyes and added:
    That sounds wicked Biblical. ^^^^^^
  25. laurasianpersuasian reblogged this from xyrophile and added:
    HEY GUYS MEN ARE TOTALLY OPPRESSED AMIRITE THOSE WOMEN AND TRANS WOMEN AND WoC ARE TOTES OPPRESSIVE
  26. green-street-politics reblogged this from kthulhufhtagn and added:
    And you’re just waste of meatspace, you bag of dicks. Uh oh, am I a misandrist now? WAHHHHH I’M OPPRESSING YOU I’M...

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