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Of woman born by adrienne rich5/29/2023 However, when someone occupies a culturally-privileged position (like men or white people do), they have no right to react defensively when someone points out oppression that did in fact happen at the hands of one particular group of people throughout history. I don't blame individual men living today for the crimes of the past, just like I don't blame individual white people living today for slavery. Well, who's been running that vague body, "society," for most of history? Men. Yet what irritates me, "Remorseful," is when people get their hackles up at the first sign of challenge to patriarchy and want to pretend that you can't blame men for anything, and they choose to blame this vague figure "society," so that individual men don't have to feel any sort of responsibility. Personally, I believe in the most basic definition of feminism: "feminism is the radical notion that women are people." It's about equality, not about hating men.
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