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Old 01-13-2013, 09:48 AM   #10
orthodoc
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Originally Posted by DanaC View Post
It is somewhat troubling when, as a working-class woman who grew up at a time when women still needed their husbands signatures in order to get a loan, buy a car, open a bank account, etc., to be dismissed as part of the oppressor class by someone who grew up male and in a priveleged income bracket.
Yes. I find it more than somewhat troubling to be assigned a label (especially 'cis', which refers to covalent bonds and has no relevance to gender), defined, and dismissed as an oppressor in what comes down to yet another exercise of upper socioeconomic class male privilege.
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