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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
Lol! What did the other 50% do to you? Shouldn't you just say 100%?  |
Ae's point, I think, is that a lot of the vernacular used is "this could be your mother/sister/niece/aunt/daughter" when really it's that they're human and should be respected simply because of that fact, not simply because they happen to be female. If you notice, it's never framed that way for men - what happens to a man, you don't hear "see him as a brother/father/nephew/uncle/son." He is already seen as a person, and no one tells us to view him in that way in order to 'humanize' the victim and their plight and gain empathy. I believe his point is to take away the viewing of women as an abstraction and move things toward viewing her as a fellow human being.
Or I could have totally misread that....