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Further Upstream - Feminism, Women’s Bodies, and the Blank Slate

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Are You a Jerk?

I saw a clip from Jordan Peterson recently and he was talking about the emphasis on status and so many things like this and having it all. He said that in order to become the top of these business fields as a lawyer, even as an artist, all these sorts of things, you kind of have to be a jerk because you have to deny so many things of your relationships. And I remember thinking, how is this an expression of female power, of female whateverness? Because you know, what male, what straight male is offended or threatened by 20 something young women dancing around on stage half dressed? This is not girl power.

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