Women don't have "sex-based rights" we have sexism based compensation & we should never settle for it. Sexism based compensation gives us, on paper, access to legal redress if we are subjected to sexist discrimination at work for example. In practice few women report, feel...
able to complain, or have a safety net that allows them to pursue legal action. Meanwhile, we have refuges & Rape Crisis as a response to prevalent male sexual violence against women & children. These aren't some special right we've been gifted because women are special &...
different; no more than they were gifted because men are inherently violent (though this is what our culture teaches us). They were physically built by feminists out of necessity, they are a response to a crisis situation that feminists seek to eradicate. For that future we...
...should demand human rights, not compensation dressed in a cloak of chivalry. For whether women are put on a pedestal or a pyre, it's the same old patriarchy, with penalties attached either way. Thus we should not make claims to human rights as women, but as human beings.
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