Tag: feminism
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Has woke gone too far? Political elite vs. basic human values
When people are elected to a significant position, the selection criterion has usually been the person’s experience in question or other merit in the qualities required for the position. Meritocracy represents a vision in which power and privilege are distributed on the basis of individual merit. This is also called “the equality of opportunities”. The…
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The gap in attitudes between men and women – values are diverging
A study published this year in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology by Oskari Laitinen, a Finnish psychology researcher, found that attitudes towards critical social justice (wokeism) differ significantly between women and men. Women are more aware than the men, in this study mainly university students. In February 2024, The Financial Times published a study showing…
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“This was enough for me” – men’s values in change
In early 2024, the Financial Times published a study on the values of young people in different countries. According to the report, the values of men and women are increasingly divergent. In Western countries, especially since the 2010s, the difference in values has become large. E.g. In the US, Britain and Germany, young men increasingly…
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Intersectional feminism and the crisis of society
Intersectional feminism emerged in academia in the United States as a kind of amendment to traditional feminism. It extends the concepts of oppression and exploitation to other oppressed groups. It seeks to dismantle the social structures and gender divisions that oppress women. Intersectional feminism is essentially a Marxist ideology. It examines the oppression experienced by…
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Woke is more than we realize
There has been a lot of discussion in forums lately about the connection between wokeism or “woke” and left-wing social ideology. Woke means awareness of social injustices such as racial prejudice or discrimination. In the 2010s, it has increasingly used in a collective sense to mean sensitivity to social inequality, women’s inequality and discrimination against…
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Boys left behind? Boy crisis and its solution.
In 2011, Philip Zimbardo gave a TED Talk called “The Demise of Guys,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMJgZ4s2E3w). “The Demise” here referred to the fact that we are facing a new world in which young men are getting left behind. There is a new generation of boys and men who are shy, socially awkward, emotionally removed, and unable to…
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