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No one argues that every women have a right to very high paying top status jobs, yet we try to structure society so that more women achieve that.


I'm not sure what you're implying and how you're relating this to my point, so I can't address it in relation to that unless you'd like to elaborate.

Society is structured in a way that marginalizes women (among others) and denies them opportunity, and feminists have fought to enfranchise women economically and politically for more than a hundred years. As this movement picks up steam, people who were privileged under this system (mostly men like myself) can perceive this as "losing" rights. But what we're actually observing is increased parity.

Let's say there are two objects moving parallel to each other, one moving faster than the other. Let's say we impart a force on the lagging object and it starts to catch up. If you're looking from the frame of reference of the leading object, than without anything else to compare to, you might look at this object catching up and perceive yourself to be slowing down. But we know this is an illusion, because we imparted no force to the leading object; it's moving at the same speed.

It's important to broaden one's perspective.


In the US, you aren't supposed to accept handouts and are expected to work, because work is a virtue. However, it's OK and totally virtuous for someone to give you a job, or maintain a company structure to keep a job around so a person who "needs it" can keep their job, such as positions that tend to be filled by elderly.

So structuring to give out jobs like rewards is not something exclusive to giving them to women, it happens to the elderly and politically connected all the time.




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