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I believe that AI including chatgpt and genAI are a good thing and they bring us one step closer to where humanity should be going.
I also think that feminism was instigated by the CIA, that Israel is losing the Iran war on purpose, and what else can i tell you? Lots of diverging opinions.
I just rarely bother to formulate them because all it will cause is lots of people categorically saying "no you're wrong" and i don't really get anything from that.
I think you're wrong but that's a discussion we could have
LMAOOO Idk if this is some elaborate bit that I'm falling for, but Why would the CIA make up feminism when women gave so many reasons to be upset about things?
Hell, the concept of feminism predates the CIA by decades
women working jobs means companies have a higher supply of labor force that they also pay lower wages too.
So that is a real aspect of women's relationship to wage labor under capitalism, but like... That's not the fault of the CIA, or even feminism.
Feminists famously want women to be paid equally for their work. Alexandra Kollintai was a Marxist feminist living in Russia around the time of the Revolution, and regularly talked about the importance of equal pay for women.
Women in the United States were always a part of the workforce, but it was largely working class women, in textile mills and such, who were working.
World War 2 required many women, across class divisions, to enter the workforce, even into more traditionally masculine fields. The the post war 50s, with its emphasis on rigid, traditional gender roles, forced women back into the home, which produced a lot of resentment among many women. Their access to work, financial independence, and a greater sense of social purposes was suddenly stripped away.
This is the context that 2nd wave feminism, with its focus on women's ability to work outside the home and financial independence, comes out of.
Issues like women being paid unequally for the same work are systemic, and often done unconsciously. That doesn't make them less of an injustice, but it does mean that the source of the problem is often more people than blaming a specific group, like the CIA, for it.