You were presented with a list showing that women are grossly underrepresented in British government. You not only had no problem with this gross under-representation, you clarified that the few women who have obtained positions of power have only done so as tokens to appease feminists. You then explained that JKR's popularity is not because of her ability as a writer, but because of the massive amounts of privilege women have.
Your automatic assumption is that any woman who has a position of wealth and power is not there because she deserves to be, but because an unfair system put her there, disenfranchising an automatically more qualified man. If that's your attempt at respecting women, you're doing it wrong.
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Date: 2008-01-14 04:37 am (UTC)Your automatic assumption is that any woman who has a position of wealth and power is not there because she deserves to be, but because an unfair system put her there, disenfranchising an automatically more qualified man. If that's your attempt at respecting women, you're doing it wrong.