PPEcel
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Anyways, I'm a member of a think tank, and recently a female former prime minister of a certain country came to visit.
There were plenty of good questions during the Q&A: Russia and NATO, Chinese espionage and influence, the EU, Trump, the Syrians and the Kurds, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Palestine, climate change, social media and political toxicity, et cetera. The event was off-the-record, but the politician did a very good job at not offending anyone.
But one-third of the questions was centered around "feminism". Now, I don't mind feminism-related questions per se, but every feminist who was in the room asked the same question again and again, albeit repackaged differently each time it was asked. "How hard is it to be a foid in politics?"
So every 5 minutes I had to hear some oft-rehearsed boilerplate about how foids just need to "educate the next generation of men to respect foids".
There were plenty of good questions during the Q&A: Russia and NATO, Chinese espionage and influence, the EU, Trump, the Syrians and the Kurds, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Palestine, climate change, social media and political toxicity, et cetera. The event was off-the-record, but the politician did a very good job at not offending anyone.
But one-third of the questions was centered around "feminism". Now, I don't mind feminism-related questions per se, but every feminist who was in the room asked the same question again and again, albeit repackaged differently each time it was asked. "How hard is it to be a foid in politics?"
So every 5 minutes I had to hear some oft-rehearsed boilerplate about how foids just need to "educate the next generation of men to respect foids".