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The Gender Paradigm with Abigail Favale

Life and Books and Everything

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The Importance of Dads in Feminism

Sally Kohn: It's so fascinating how detached a lot of feminist theory and certainly gender theory, absolutely gender theory is from the phenomenon of motherhood at all. She says that someone at some point will have to care for children if we're any sort of humane society. And no matter what our very esoteric theories say, human nature reasserts itself; it's almost certainly going to be women doing the bulk of caring for these children as much as we want fathers to be responsible. There are exceptions to this phenomenon who are more concerned about femaleness than others but I don't think there'll ever be an ideal in which every woman wants to be 100 per cent like her sister

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