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Originally Posted by opendoor
I think you're vastly overestimating both the number of people who espouse so-called regressive left beliefs as well as the influence of those people. In mainstream discourse all of those things you mention are held up to scrutiny to one degree or another.
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Maybe because that's because I get most of my news from the CBC and the Globe and Mail. Though there is a timely column by Margaret Wente in the G&M today that moved past the popular narrative of schools not doing enough to encourage young women into STEM subjects to address the alarming decline in participation of young men in school and work.
The lost boys: Video games more fun than growing up
It should be noted that Wente is one columnist at the G&M, a contrarian, and there are seven or eight other columnists or regular contributors who look at gender issues strictly through the lens of patriarchal oppression. It's also worth noting that she's a woman, and men who write columns such as that, or post them on social media platforms, are typically denounced as MRAs (a term I had to look up, but which stands for Male Rights Activist, apparently the lowest form of life in the social media ecology). And furthermore, if a male columnist at a mainstream newspaper published a column making such negative generalities about young women, it would provoke a firestorm of condemnation across the media.