{"id":160705,"date":"2015-04-03T13:56:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T13:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/03\/true-gender-equality-is-actually-perceived-as\/"},"modified":"2015-04-03T13:56:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T13:56:24","slug":"true-gender-equality-is-actually-perceived-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/03\/true-gender-equality-is-actually-perceived-as\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made up of 50% women is perceived as being mostly women. A situation that is perfectly equal between men and women is perceived as being biased in favor of women.<br \/>\nAnd if you don\u2019t believe me, you\u2019ve never been a married woman who kept her family name. I have had students hold that up as proof of my \u201csexism.\u201d <br \/>\nMy own brother told me that he could never marry a woman who kept her name because \u201ceveryone would know who ruled that relationship.\u201d Perfect equality \u2013 my husband keeps his name and I keep mine \u2013 is held as a statement of superiority on my part.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Lucy,\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trickster.org\/symposium\/symp181.htm\" target=\"_blank\">When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege<\/a><\/i>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>This is so ridiculously important.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/kavinskys.co.vu\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">oydsseus<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made up of 50% women is perceived as being mostly women. A situation that is perfectly equal between men and women is perceived as being biased in favor of women. And if you don\u2019t believe me, you\u2019ve never been a married woman who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/03\/true-gender-equality-is-actually-perceived-as\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[309,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}