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Originally Posted by Sliver
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.
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The tone of my post was one of sadness. I was sad when I wrote it. Reading it back, that definitely seeped through. I think it's sad that it came to this, and frankly, you can keep your thanks. I didn't take it down because you politely requested it. I did it in the interest of keeping the conversation going. I will say that what is odd to me is that you didn't take the time to read through the threads, but you managed to find time to request my avatar to come down. I hope you find the time to also politely make requests for the boob/ass/"No Fat Chicks" avatars to come down.
I was optimistic when the mods took the thread down. I saw it as a positive step, but the negative reaction from some has diminished that optimism for me. I see a lot of anger, both on the board and in 'real life.' That is why I said I weep for my niece. Perhaps that was a poor choice of words, but it upsets me knowing that she will face sexism, and she will.
You really see a future where they might not ever see sexism? I can't see it, nor imagine it. I see targeted anger (look at Emma Watson's situation). I see some of our choices up for debate and that is difficult to bear. A lot of women and men fought to gain these choices and now suits are debating whether we should be able to keep them.
I think it sucks that you chose to determine the validity of my arguments based on my avatar and location.