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Women's and Gender Studies
MIT OpenCourseWare
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MIT OpenCourseWare's free, self-paced collection of materials from an MIT women's and gender studies course, covering feminist theory and the history of gender and systemic inequality.
One commenter points to it as the place to go to learn about the long history of systemic oppression of women, in response to a thread disputing that history.
Humanities & Social Sciencefreeself-paced text#gender studies#feminist theory#women's history#social inequality#mit ocw
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That, in a word, is bullshit. I will accept "all humans have intrinsic value" as one way of stating a basic human-rights assumption. But otherwise, value is always rooted in whom the object is valuable to. This is just a fancy way of saying "men value women as property". Even you could tell that sounds wrong, so you erase the maleness of the view and pretend it's some sort of objective thing.
This is so distinct from recorded historical reality that you are just embarrassing yourself. Please go take a women's studies class. MIT has a bunch: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/
Half-assed speculation is occasionally useful in the absence of fact (although only occasionally). But you just making shit up as reasons why we can ignore the long history of the systemic oppression of women? That says very little about the reality, and a lot about what you'd like to be true.