Gender ideologies and sexism: JENNIFER CONTRADICTS

JENNIFER CONTRADICTS:

1. (summary here :http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091112151434.htm
   (ohmy, i really *want-to-be-the-change)

   Benevolent sexism is still a gender issue. After all, it is sexism. I prefer an environment where there is no game playing based on gender, but people do in fact use gender as a means to ascend the hierarchy. For instance, women do it by pointing out that others do not play the game of femininity. Hence those who do not play it well are popped off, leaving room for those who have a higher level of feminine shrewdness to claw their way a bit further up the ladder.

   I put a lot of this stupid game playing down to an overcrowded world. People don’t care too much about complexity, but about competing in the narrowest terms possible, very often.
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  Jennifer Frances Armstrong
  November 20, 2011 at 9:58 pm | #17

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  Furthermore, hierarchy is not the source of the problem. Getting rid of hierarchy in fact exacerbates this problem of sexism, since people don’t respect formal qualifications or social protocols so much once hierarchy is gone. Instead, they revert to much more primitive ideologies. Ideologies based on gender differentiation are the most basic of these.

  I maintain that those who oppose hierarchy on the basis of feminism are taking society in entirely the wrong direction and making it much worse.