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8. Because most of the rape victims are women
Mon Oct 28, 2013, 04:34 PM
Oct 2013

Sure, men can get raped and mugged but the majority of the victims of binge drinking in colleges are women.

We want men to be sexually responsible, but the reality is that only women get pregnant. The reality is that men can escape town, or simply continue to party, while a woman has to decide, first, whether she wants to carry her pregnancy to term, and if yes, to go through the physical changes and then to decide whether to keep the child or not.

It is not enough to say "everything you can do I can do (better);" it is important to recognize that, yes, men and women are different. Women often get drunk with less alcohol than men.

I would like to think that feminism means that women, and men, can choose how to run their lives regardless of gender assignment, while recognizing that genetically, anatomically, perhaps even psychologically, there are differences. Mature, self confident individuals can work with these differences.

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