I would be willing to bet a fair amount that neither you nor Valka could throw a standard dictionary twenty paces, on target or otherwise. The only hits would be verbal jabs.
Why would I throw a standard dictionary anywhere? (btw, standard dictionaries also come in paperback editions, which are probably much easier to throw)
Swiss women gained the right to vote in federal elections in 1971,
[66] and
Appenzell Innerrhoden became the last
canton to grant women the right to vote on local issues (in 1991, when it was forced to do so by the
Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland).
[67]
This was mind-croggling when I first found out about it. I'd always had the perception that Switzerland was an advanced country, but this was genuinely shocking.
Conscription is an example of sexism .. against women. Because women weren't just not conscripted, women weren't even allowed to serve in the military at all, because women are inferior and can't possibly lead soldiers in battle, and that's a glory and honor reserved only for men. Many women have pretended to be men to serve, and when found out are executed. Are you familiar with Mulan? Or have you ever seen GI Jane? How many American presidents were war heroes? Women aren't being conscripted now because nobody's being conscripted by countries like the United States, England, Canada, and so on.
Joan of Arc is another interesting example. She led men in battle, and when she was captured, the men were highly upset that she continued to wear "men's clothes" - something she did to protect herself while in custody, since she wanted to avoid being raped (or at least to make it more difficult for her guards to rape her if they felt like doing so).
Personally, I think that beyond the age where sexual awareness sets in playing with dolls is kinda creepy, no matter who is doing the playing, and 'it's feminine' has nothing really to do with that.
You'd need to define what "playing with dolls" actually entails. My grandmother owned more Barbies than I did, and she liked to collect them and make clothes for them. I would experiment with various hairstyles for them once she decided what costumes they would wear. One of the things I was asked to do when going shopping at the mall was to pick up some fabric from the clearance bin at Walmart, if she felt like trying out a new pattern. I have one of those dolls standing on my organ, not 3 feet away as I type (Malibu Supersize Barbie - 18" tall rather than the standard 11.5"). My grandmother made the dress and I decided on the hairstyle.
The only time I'd consider my grandmother's doll hobby to be "creepy" was when she got into apple dolls. That involved peeling apples, carving faces on them, and then tying them on strings in the kitchen to let them go brown. Eventually they looked like shrunken heads, which creeped out my typing clients when they saw all these little brown shrunken heads hanging from the shelves. When one person commented on them, I just looked up from reading her rough draft of her term paper, said, "Oh, I forgot to mention - my grandmother is a headhunter," and kept on reading. But one of the dolls she produced looked uncannily like my grandfather, both in skin tone and expression (his skin was dark-complexioned, compared to most Swedish men we knew).
As for guys and Barbies, there is someone on CFC (not an OT poster) who makes fantasy costumes for dolls, including chainmail. Some of the ones he's made for Barbie/Ken dolls are really cool (of course the full effect requires hiding the dumb expression and plastic hair on the Ken doll). His sister also makes fantasy costumes for dolls. It can be quite a lucrative hobby once a person gets good at it.
And frankly I don't see what historical mistreatment has to do with all of this - by your logic, I should hate the Germans, because they killed 30 millions of my compatriots 70 years ago. Or Mongols, because they mistreated my people for 250 years. It's history. And even if I was beaten up by group of Germans, I wouldn't hate entire nation because of that.
Being German is not some physical trait you're born with. It's just an accident of where you were born. Women can't help being born female, and men can't help being born male. Some may choose to alter that later if they have the sense of their bodies not matching what they perceive is correct, but initially, how you're born is how you're born.
Women are not denied military job, so it's not a discrimination.
It is if they want to serve in combat roles and are denied simply for being female.
It's not that women have never had military jobs. Many have. It's a fact denied by the misogynist Canadian men who ranted and wailed about Canada's national anthem being changed to reflect women's patriotism as well as men's ("true patriot love in all thy sons command" was changed to "true patriot love in all of us command"). They insisted that women didn't deserve to be acknowledged in the anthem because "they didn't die for their country." Well, whose fault was that? There were women who were willing to serve in combat roles but weren't allowed, and many who did risk their lives in other ways by serving overseas as nurses, in clerical roles, or as Queen Elizabeth did during WWII - she served as a mechanic and ambulance driver.
I take it you'd be my coach and physics instructor on this? (I'm hopeless at throwing stuff)
