Sexism is still going strong

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25138455

The "survey" which they used to produce the report consists of 100 or so leading questions with limited multiple-choice answers.

Can you give us a specific example of the type of question you found inappropriate?

Men are chauvanistic pigs who are sex craved all of them are! This is the usual phrase used by feminists.

The article is fairly one-sided. Everybody talks about how girls aren't allowed to be promiscuous when boys are, but nobody talks about how a 16 year old boy who's still a virgin is a loser, whereas a 30 year old female virgin (regardless of why she's a virgin) just can say that she's saving herself for marriage or that she has standards--and all of a sudden everyone's fine with it. The article doesn't mention that a woman who cheats on her husband is just satisfying her sexual needs, while a man who cheats on her wife is a psychopath who deserves to have his car scratched either.

The truth is, there's sexism against both genders. A man can't say six weeks after he knocked someone up that he doesn't want to be a father, if he wants to be a father, he has almost no rights whatsoever after a divorce--and he's under a lot more pressure to be physically fit and to have a career than a woman is. If this wears him out, society cuts him no slack (which it does when a woman wears herself out from work).

Please bear in mind that this is not the fault of the feminists, though.

like the bbc can be trusted to give an objective opinion.

"How happy are you with the way you look?"

To name but one.

I see this more as a societal problem, it's not simply just sexism. I suspect the greatest problem is society's pressure on people to conform to all kinds of silly things, and intolerance to those who choose to live and view the world differently. I guess it comes down to close-mindedness which sometimes (often, in fact) takes the form of sexism, and there's a big component in people never thinking about stuff or questioning the fundamentals of their world view and personal reality. Humanity sleeps and lets itself be herded by the not very uplifting mainstream media and 'culture' which doesn't exactly stimulate thought, personal education, questioning that very same culture, and all the other things that can make people be freed from irrational bonds. That's why we have oppression of both genders in cultural, illogical and pointless roles and ideals and that also explains why many people have such a hard time accepting or even liking those that do not conform.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/ ... m=facebook

Well, a few guys are asexuals.

And some prefer buns over muffins.

^^^^

And yet, women with that same stance decided the best way to "level the field" was lowering their own behavior to that of promiscuous men, instead of holding such slackers accountable. Self-defeating, much?

Oh?
What feminists?

How is that a leading or misleading question?