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	<description>Feminism purports to concern itself only with equality - but in reality propagates mistrust, tension and hatred between the sexes.</description>
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		<title>By: What is &#8216;ad hominem&#8217;? &#171; Exposing Feminism</title>
		<link>http://exposingfeminism.wordpress.com/the-ten-most-common-feminist-myths/#comment-1436</link>
		<dc:creator>What is &#8216;ad hominem&#8217;? &#171; Exposing Feminism</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Rajesh Kumar</title>
		<link>http://exposingfeminism.wordpress.com/the-ten-most-common-feminist-myths/#comment-1359</link>
		<dc:creator>Rajesh Kumar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The present state is the biggest feminist.
State need reasons for its existence. The inefficient and corrupt instituion, state is, it cannot do much productive work- hence it makes itself relevant by creating one class of person as victim and another class of person as exploiter. Some time it is black and white, men and women- in future it can be humans and animals.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The present state is the biggest feminist.<br />
State need reasons for its existence. The inefficient and corrupt instituion, state is, it cannot do much productive work- hence it makes itself relevant by creating one class of person as victim and another class of person as exploiter. Some time it is black and white, men and women- in future it can be humans and animals.</p>
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		<title>By: NewlySingle</title>
		<link>http://exposingfeminism.wordpress.com/the-ten-most-common-feminist-myths/#comment-1288</link>
		<dc:creator>NewlySingle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Guys,
time to join the free man on the land movement...you can google it...it is everywhere...but you can start here. http://www.freemanhighland.co.uk/index.htm 

The idea is that you can reject being governed and then are harmless from all statutes....you can refuse to pay taxes.....and just live under the law of the land....millions of men do this? We kill off our toxic governments who have promoted feminism as a way to divide and conquer the population. After all, feminism was just one tool of the Illuminati to corrupt society and to destroy it to be able to take it over....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guys,<br />
time to join the free man on the land movement&#8230;you can google it&#8230;it is everywhere&#8230;but you can start here. <a href="http://www.freemanhighland.co.uk/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.freemanhighland.co.uk/index.htm</a> </p>
<p>The idea is that you can reject being governed and then are harmless from all statutes&#8230;.you can refuse to pay taxes&#8230;..and just live under the law of the land&#8230;.millions of men do this? We kill off our toxic governments who have promoted feminism as a way to divide and conquer the population. After all, feminism was just one tool of the Illuminati to corrupt society and to destroy it to be able to take it over&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Max</title>
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		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As a former feminist, I remember hearing most of these myths in the past.

One thing you&#039;ve got wrong there though...gender IS a social construction.  We first need to delineate the difference between sex (male vs. female) and gender.  Sex is what you&#039;re born with, it&#039;s your potential.  Gender is the role within that sex that society expects and socializes its members to be.

What you are describing are sex differences, which correctly are not a societal construction, but rather a biological one.  

The lines get pretty blurry though.  For example, a boy raised as a girl: how would you expect him/her to be nurturing or outgoing?  Difficult to say, right?

Another point to consider is that both of these categories are not categories at all.  They are more of a spectrum.  There is a spectrum of biological sex: intersex people, chimeras etc.  But there is also a spectrum of societal imposed gender expectations.  

Would you expect two men to walk down the road holding hands as a gesture of friendship?  Not in the US.  What about two girls?  More believable.  However, there are some countries where men holding hands fraternally is perfectly acceptable and common.

Gender is part of culture and is a social construct.  Sex is not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a former feminist, I remember hearing most of these myths in the past.</p>
<p>One thing you&#8217;ve got wrong there though&#8230;gender IS a social construction.  We first need to delineate the difference between sex (male vs. female) and gender.  Sex is what you&#8217;re born with, it&#8217;s your potential.  Gender is the role within that sex that society expects and socializes its members to be.</p>
<p>What you are describing are sex differences, which correctly are not a societal construction, but rather a biological one.  </p>
<p>The lines get pretty blurry though.  For example, a boy raised as a girl: how would you expect him/her to be nurturing or outgoing?  Difficult to say, right?</p>
<p>Another point to consider is that both of these categories are not categories at all.  They are more of a spectrum.  There is a spectrum of biological sex: intersex people, chimeras etc.  But there is also a spectrum of societal imposed gender expectations.  </p>
<p>Would you expect two men to walk down the road holding hands as a gesture of friendship?  Not in the US.  What about two girls?  More believable.  However, there are some countries where men holding hands fraternally is perfectly acceptable and common.</p>
<p>Gender is part of culture and is a social construct.  Sex is not.</p>
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		<title>By: Exposing Feminism</title>
		<link>http://exposingfeminism.wordpress.com/the-ten-most-common-feminist-myths/#comment-994</link>
		<dc:creator>Exposing Feminism</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anonymous,

Women are a &lt;strong&gt;gender&lt;/strong&gt;. Feminism is a &lt;strong&gt;socio-political doctrine&lt;/strong&gt;. A criticism of feminism is not a criticism of women per se - no woman is born a feminist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anonymous,</p>
<p>Women are a <strong>gender</strong>. Feminism is a <strong>socio-political doctrine</strong>. A criticism of feminism is not a criticism of women per se &#8211; no woman is born a feminist.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anti-female shaming tactics?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anti-female shaming tactics?</p>
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