efyu_lemonardo
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Pretty much. Might also explain how she was able to get a STEM job despite not appearing to be incredibly bright. She sounds like a robot, basically.
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WaPo - Miss USA says health care is a privilege, not a right
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Pretty much. Might also explain how she was able to get a STEM job despite not appearing to be incredibly bright. She sounds like a robot, basically.
BrutishMrFish
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And the people who would rather be "equalists" or egalitarians are really just lazy fucks who don't want to examine how they treat people differently.
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Americans in a nutshell
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A Link to the Past
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Feminism is already that. It's about rebalancing an unbalanced system. Calling it equalism ignores that equality between genders has more or less advanced through women's rights, and removing 'femin' could very easily cause a disregard for the status of women in society right now. Also, it has the problem that the name is too catch all - while it's good to advocate for many causes, having a cause that is focused on dealing with gender imbalances specifically is important, and equalism does not imply such a focus.
The Omega Man
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A true US ambassador to the world
Hello? This is Hailun!
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The White Female Ben Carson ?
UnemployedVillain
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That's what I said earlier
It's their own fault for getting old. Shoulda stayed young and pretty like me! *pose*
KarneeKarnay
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Once again we are confronted with the fact that intelligent and smart are two separate things, not always mutually assured.
SliceSabre
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"Fuck you got mine." would have be simpler for her to say.
She's black....
As a Swiss I also don't get it why universal healthcare is something divisive.
The contestant? You can drop the white part
She sounds downright presidential
perfectchaos007
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She'll probably get an invite to the whitehouse. Trump has a history with pageants
Healthcare would be so much cheaper and better without them, they should just go away! Sad!
At Fox News Republicans also become Democrats, if they are involved in some scandal. So this makes sense.
perfectchaos007
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Have you never watched a pageant before? This is how all interview answers sound. It is hilarious when their brain malfunctions though like the infamous South Carolina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
Aw shit, maybe she trying to infiltrate from within!
other than the fact that she's black, a white ben carson is redundant because carson is only labeled an anomaly because he's black.
There is no "white ben carson", because the majority of conservatives in STEM fields are overwhelmingly white.
TangoAlphaLima
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The point I was trying to make was that using ALM instead of BLM trivializes the issue. Of course all lives matter, no one would argue that, but that's not the point.
Similarly, of course equalism is the ideal. But the point is that women are not treated equal in many facets of society. That's why the feminist label exists, it serves to point out that women are not treated equally. Equalism is so amorphous and non-specific, how does that label help anyone? Using that label only serves to minimize the movement.
A Link to the Past
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Not pulling a gotcha, but I'm legitimately wanting to know if my explanation for why feminism is a better term than equalism answers your question.
Succinct Verbosity
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All you can do is laugh at the point.
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E-Cat
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Well, she got that right -- we treat everyone here, even Americans.
Morrigan Stark
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How fucking stupid and/or selfish do you have to be to literally say you don't deserve healthcare if you lose your job?
Way to perpetuate the stereotype that beauty pageant participants are braindead bimbos, dumbass.
It already is.
Way to perpetuate the stereotype that beauty pageant participants are braindead bimbos, dumbass.
It already is.
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SaviourMK2
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I don't think someone who weighs 90 pounds and throws up into a toilet after every slice of pizza just to look good can really say whether or not healthcare is a privilege or a right. If Caitlin Upton didn't hold, you wont either missy.
perfectchaos007
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No I get what your saying and I agree with the premise, but so many GAFers like to pretend feminism exists in a vacuum and there isn't a large stigma attached to it due to a vocal minority of feminists who go beyond the definition of feminism simply being "the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes." I think Miss USA is cognizant of that stigma and proposed an alternative name based on the current reputation of the "feminist" label. Just my take, and I didn't respond to your post because I know from experience most GAFers disagree with my take on this and that's okay
feel old, i remember this happening at the time.
Phoenix RISING
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She isn't white.
When you react by "playing the race card" but didn't read the original article first.
As much as GAF champtions STEM, I'm surprised by the responses in this topic. Giving a crap about your fellow human is a HUMANities thing.
Exactly, there are two types of people who contribute to this cancer. Those who are prejudiced and ignorant and those who tolerate prejudices and ignorance directed onto others. Both are equally bad.
A Link to the Past
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But that's the thing of it, it's a premise that seeks to undermine the focus of feminism in order to placate dummies
I don't think we have to revert to misogynistic quips to talk about how dumb the statements were
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