Supposedly Worse For A Woman To Die, Really?!
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — G.I. Jane
dbzgal04 — 10 years ago(October 30, 2015 12:47 AM)
The Senator comments that no politician can afford to have women come home in body bags. That idea of a woman's death being more painful than a man's (mentioned by LT O'Neil) really upsets me! It's a perfect example of reverse sexism and discrimination, indicating that a woman's life and safety is more important than a man's, and makes it sound like my 2nd cousin being KIA in Vietnam wasn't a big deal because he was a man. Ugh, seriously?!
No matter what the chromosomes, a human being is a human being; everyone has people who love and care about them and would be devastated if something happened.
A long time ago I was flamed on this board by a creep with issues, whom accused me of being a "feminazi" or man-hater. I'm a feminist in that I believe women and men must have the same legal rights, education and career opportunities, etc. I don't favor male dominance, but I don't favor female dominance either; similarly I don't like to see either gender get insulted and put down. Quite simple, really.
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Sidewindr — 10 years ago(November 05, 2015 09:36 PM)
It is a biological and evolutionary response to protect women it's the same as our craving for sweet foods. It took millennia for these traits to evolve and our evolution now cannot keep up with the rapid changes in our environment.
Food is more readily available now so we no longer need to crave sweet food to survive and this in turn has lead to the obesity epidemic.
Women are able now to compete with men more equally now society is more civilised but the traits linger leading to the sexism issues. etc. etc. -
LukeLovesFilm28 — 10 years ago(February 09, 2016 01:06 AM)
It should be our choice. Men should have the choice in who we want to help us or protect us in battle. If we are more physically able, we should have the first choice. It's the most logical way to conduct warfare.
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filmlife-04472 — 9 years ago(April 29, 2016 03:20 PM)
I am very happy to read this
I am not anti-feminist
Feminism did SO MUCH for humankindmostly in the past
Nowunfortunately the loudest voices of "feminism" are the right ones Im afraid.
I strongly dislike third wave extremist feminism or how to call it
Its engraved in our society that women are fragile beings and should be treated as such
You never hit a womanIf you do you face terrible consequences
I believe in equality of gendersBut both sides must come to their senses first
You are probably the only feminist I came across that agrees
Nowadays the loudest feminists are professional victimsI believe youd agree with me
I would not call them feminists I think these people REALLY destroyed the reputation of this movementconcentrating on really trivial things in western society instead concentrating on places where women are hurting the mostwe know where on Earth it is
Jordan was completely right and I believe if this movie was made today it would a great controversy"feminazis" would obliterate this point of view they want equality but the kind that is in favour of women so in the end its not equality
And I agree if woman wants to accompany traditionally male soldiers on battlefield there must be a change in institution but not in the training and military experience on itselfJust like Jordan wanted to experience every piece of pain the guys did
I must say it was hard for me to watch ONeil getting beaten because it is just so terrible to see woman hurt so badBut (from a movie point of view) if ONeil was a man it would not affect me at allwe are so used to see men killed and beaten in movies and vide ogames
Complaints about violence against women in video games are completely unreasonable given the fact that from 99% of thse deaths are men
But equality involves a lot of work and pain I guess
I completely understand where youre coming from