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Originally Posted by Eastern Girl
I have a little baby niece and I weep thinking about what she is going to have to face in her lifetime.
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OMG that is completely over the top. Your neice lives in one of the best countries in the best time in the history of humanity to be female and things are only getting better by the year. The past week on CalgaryPuck is evidence of how promising the future is for gender equality. The mods made a great decision and are going to pull the less enlightened of us along with them into a more inclusive future.
My wife and I regularly talk about how lucky our daughter is to grow up here and now versus any other place or time in history. I marvel at how other cultures today and ours in past times could look at their daughters as inferior to their sons. I truly cannot wrap my head around that as I have a son and a daughter.
I do find your tone strange on this topic. 'Weeping' for your neice seems dramatic and disingenuous to me. I'm optimistic for the futures of little girls in Canada right now; I think some of them may never even know sexism and they certainly won't experience it to the same level as every other woman that came before them had to experience it.
I haven't been following your posts or this topic until the last page and unfortunately I don't have time to go through everything. I only made the comment about your avatar because I genuinely found hard to take you seriously talking about this issue with a half naked man as the photo you chose to be your visual representation for us, coupled with your location being 'sc'ank'. Thank you for changing your avatar.