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"Gender is one of the oldest and most established systems for controlling people. And if you think the youth fucking with it is annoying that's probably because it's messing with a power structure that benefits you"


👆 this.

(source doesn't want to be mentioned)

#Gender

#gender
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jim

Is this a post about youth fucking with things and being annoying or is it about Gender?

What has youth today contributed that hasn't been done by past generations to the topic of Gender?

Each generation's, youth are often clobbered trying to figure out what they want in their lives. That is tragic. It can be frustrating and sad. It is not annoying.

What did youths do that is new to the Gender topic? I may need more coffee. Don't mean to be obtuse.

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Nicole Parsons

Entire economies depend on wage suppression for women. And LGBTQ, immigrants, & POC.

#KochNetwork fought a 50 year battle to thwart the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment for a reason.
madisondems.org/tag/koch-broth…

To keep their 30% wage discount on women's earnings, the wealthy are funding lawsuits to declare the NLRB "unconstitutional".

Musk, Bezos, SpaceX, Trader Joe's, Amazon...

vice.com/en/article/3ake93/ama…

robertreich.substack.com/p/jef…

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…


Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’

Trader Joe’s and SpaceX are among businesses challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board
Steven Greenhouse (The Guardian)
#kochnetwork
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Nicole Parsons

There is no fate but what we make.

There's nothing pre-ordained about gender based pay inequity.
msmagazine.com/2024/02/08/proj…

Only religious bigots & exploitive billionaires think wages & gender are "destined".

worldbank.org/en/news/press-re…

pewresearch.org/social-trends/…

epi.org/unequalpower/publicati…

ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/n…

amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/disc…

New laws are needed to stop wage suppression schemes
cbc.ca/news/business/price-fix…


The Gender Wage Gap Endures in the U.S. | Pew Research Center

The pay gap between men and women has barely closed in the past two decades, even as women today are more likely than men to have graduated from college, suggesting other factors are at play.
Shannon Greenwood (Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project)
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jim

@GenerallyAnnoyed I feel like if we went to our parents or even slightly older generations you'd see similar issues.

Arguably we've heard the 'world' was against youths before. Genocide, pollution - none of it is new. Gender certainly isn't.

Nothing anyone has done to Gender in my lifetime is actually new that I can see.

It would be really difficult for 'youths' of any generation to make a claim of legitimately 'fucking with' Gender.

It's not a topic owned by youth alone.🤔

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⁂iwein⁂

Cool! Thanks for sharing.

I'm all for messing with power structures, in particular those that benefit me. But if we're talking about 'oldest and most established systems' I would like to have some more clues here on how to inspect mentioned system. Can I read more about this 'system'?

My gut feel is that it's more statistical/cultural than intentional/systemic… which would mean that the need for change is as dire, but the tactics should be radically different.

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tiny_m

@iwein workers.org/2013/08/10441/

"What was lost included the communality and social equality of women and men; the wise guidance of the councils of older women; the humane, communal ethics that ensured the well-being of all the members of the clan; the collective care that was of such great benefit to the children; and the relaxed, relatively unrestricted enjoyment of exogamous sex."
how about agriculture leading to marriage/policing virginity as a way of controlling who inherits?

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 13

An overview of the ‘Agricultural Revolution’ The word “revolution” conjures up the image of a quick, qualitative, monumental and tumultuous change.
Workers World
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tiny_m

@iwein the development of agriculture was not created with malicious intent but you must see how that ended up corrupted into a system which persecutes women and then led to a rigidly enforced gender binary where one gender was deliberately subjugated. It seems pretty clear cut. Otherwise the history of female persecution and white colonialism enforced on other cultures was just unfortunate happenstance rather than deliberately enforced power structures from the people in control
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tiny_m

@LillyHerself @iwein I studied the agrarian revolution & how enclosure of common land forced people into subservience to land owners instead of being self sufficient. Someone compared the social media giants gatekeeping the internet as another form of enclosure of what should be common land and I think about that a lot, about how as humans we're all entitled to share the commons which indigenous cultures understand & uphold. The power structures in place are designed to keep us out
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tiny_m

@LillyHerself @iwein I hadn't really thought of it before I saw it mentioned. I'm glad that there is a strong voice for net neutrality and I feel like a lot of original pioneers of the internet are still around to champion it and to ensure there is always a part of it that is free to publish to and free to own. As a web developer I feel really strongly about the power of the internet as a social good. Community is essential to standing up to these power structures. We need a free internet
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Jaddy

@Deor I’m afraid, that’s what sex is.

Gender is what happens, when people look at you and impose all the stereotypes and prejudices of their culture, traditions, education and habits upon you, based on your appearance. Then you are being gendered. And since we all have those stereotypes and prejudices, we do the same with others and with ourselves.

@Deor
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cy

Possibly because it messed with a power structure that would have previously benefited you, so you got less benefit, didn't get the help you needed, and didn't succeed. A lot of people are speaking from the pain of an unfulfilled life. It hurts to think that this convoluted preoccupation with genders might have been what did it to you. Easy to suspect it's true.
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relogi

No... just no. Gender IS used as a weapon. But gender doesnt control anything. It is a set of labels. It is the story of those labels that controls. It is the storyteller, the power of the storyteller to be heard, that controls. Gender is real, and too the confusion of some, derived from physiology even as we define past those origins. Both the patriarchy and those who push back against it are wrestling for control of... the story. When labels turn into boxes, call out the story.
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