@WoocashWombat@_hffx@DipshikhaGhosh Mean subjugation by women because that's what women have had to experience under patriarchal rule. Men can't seem to get their heads around this distinction.
@WoocashWombat@_hffx@DipshikhaGhosh The fact that you think feminism is the problem shows a fundamental lack of understanding of what feminism is defined as and what it seeks to accomplish. Which is simply for women to be seen and treated as equal in value to men. The disservice is that you've twisted feminism to
@WoocashWombat@_hffx@DipshikhaGhosh Didn't revolve around marriage. This is where the myth of men being "providers" and "protectors" came from. Because patriarchal society expected this of men, not because of any natural inclination to do so. In a similar vein, women were expected to keep themselves small.
@WoocashWombat@_hffx@DipshikhaGhosh Spousal/Marital rape in many countries want recognised as a crime until the 80s, even laws criminalising DV are relatively recent in history. For women throughout history, unless they were independently wealthy in their own right, women were not free to pursue interests that
@WoocashWombat@_hffx@DipshikhaGhosh The status quo, as has been proven time and time again, especially in documented history, that women have not been considered the equal of men. This narrative you present isn't based in historical or even contemporary reality.
@WoocashWombat@_hffx@DipshikhaGhosh If it was even remotely about reciprocity, then women wouldn't have been considered as less than men, to the point of being considered possessions. The only time reciprocity was an actual thing was in prehistoric matriarchal societies, where workload was shared.
@WoocashWombat@_hffx@DipshikhaGhosh Clearly, there are men that do, and some of those men are in very powerful positions. The status quo is literally the subjugation of women. Otherwise, there wouldn't be such pushback on us simply asking to be treated as equal human beings instead of possessions.
@_hffx@roisenav@DipshikhaGhosh This is a myth. Men are not "mostly benevolent." If that were true, then 1 in 3 women and girls wouldn't be SA'd. 98-99% of violent assaults are perpetrated by men. Women wouldn't've had to fight and continue fighting for equality. There'd be no need for the manosphere.
You are not describing history.
You are describing the American bedtime story about history.
Let me remind you what actually happened on our soil, not in your textbooks.
North Vietnam did not "invade" South Vietnam.
Vietnam was one nation that foreign powers divided on paper and expected us to accept the way a prisoner accepts the shape of his cell.
There is no "North Vietnamese people" and "South Vietnamese people."
There is only one Vietnamese people separated by a imaginary line drawn by outsiders.
You talk about 1954 as if the partition was destiny.
It was not.
The Geneva Accords mandated free and fair elections in 1956, so the Vietnamese could reunify peacefully.
Eisenhower’s own intelligence admitted Hồ Chí Minh would win by 80 percent.
That is why the United States blocked the elections.
That is why your puppet regime was installed.
That is why the country was carved in two to prevent democracy, not defend it.
You call our president Hồ Chí Minh a "brutal scourge."
Your CIA called him "the George Washington of Vietnam."
The only thing dangerous about him was that he wanted a Vietnam not ruled by France, Japan, or America.
But let us talk about the Gulf of Tonkin, since you think "the rest is history."
There was no second attack.
There was no assault on the Turner Joy.
There was only American radar chasing ghosts in a storm, and a White House searching for the excuse it needed to unleash a war it had already decided to fight.
McNamara admitted it.
The NSA declassified the evidence.
Your own navy officers testified the incident never happened.
Yet from that lie came three million Vietnamese dead, eight million tons of bombs, Agent Orange burned into our soil and our DNA, entire provinces turned into moonscapes.
And you still recite this story as if the United States came to rescue us from ourselves.
Let me be very clear:
America did not enter Vietnam to "help" South Vietnam.
America entered Vietnam to prevent the independence of a country that refused to kneel to Western power.
The people who fought the United States were not foreign invaders.
They were farmers defending the same land their ancestors defended for over 2,000 years against the Han, the Tang, the Song, the Mongols, the Ming, the Qing, the French, and the Japanese.
We were not fighting for communism.
We were fighting for Vietnam.
And we won.
That is the part your version always forgets.
You lost a war you cannot psychologically accept losing, so you rewrite it as a morality play where America tried to save a "good" Vietnam from a "bad" one.
There was no good Vietnam and bad Vietnam.
There was only Vietnam
And the empire that tried to break it.
The rest is not history.
The rest is denial.
@ClareCraigPath@DrNeilStone You should know "Dr," but CDC/OWID don't count "unknown/unlinked" as unvaccinated, they're excluded. Denominator audits use registry data with typical linkage errors, biasing toward underestimating vaccine benefit, not inventing it. The large mortality gap persist