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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-03-24 06:51 pm

[ SECRET POST #2638 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2638 ⌋

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Re: sa

(Anonymous) 2014-03-25 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Followup question, then: at what point do we decide that women do have institutional power? You would agree, I hope, that women have MORE power in society than they did fifty years ago? We're on the same page that that's a good thing, right? But it doesn't count yet, according to you. That's cool. At what point DOES it count? What's a metric we can hit?

nayrt

(Anonymous) 2014-03-25 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
I would assume we would agree that women have institutional power when they are, y'know, the majority force in an institution of some kind (like the government, religion, media production, etc.). Which I think we can all acknowledge that they don't yet.

Re: nayrt

(Anonymous) 2014-03-25 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, women are over 50% of the population. If they ain't voting women into government and such, that is their own fault.

Re: nayrt

(Anonymous) 2014-03-25 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Here's the thing about politics: you can't just waltz into it. There's a reason that our politicians (on a national level, at least) tend to be well-connected and somewhat wealthy.

Can't vote a woman in if there isn't a woman candidate, and the barriers to entry for prospective women candidates are still higher than they are for men. This is starting to change, obviously, as evidenced by the increased presence of women in politics, but we're not quite there yet.