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Originally Posted by Rbneader
It's not about your self-esteem. It's about cultural expectations.
The cultural expectation that women will always be 'womanly', attractive and happy to be a sexual object is very real, and very damaging.
The cultural expectation that men will always be 'manly', aggressive and not very interested in education is very real, and very damaging.
When your boss expects you to always be made up and be happy when he hits on you, when your coworkers pigeonhole you into administrative tasks and shut you out of interesting assignments, when you can't get people to listen to you, that is all very real and very damaging.
It's great that this hasn't impacted you heavily. We want that privilege for everyone. And sometimes that means uncomfortable conversations where we talk about how different people have different experiences and some habits invoke bad experiences for some people.
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I'm sorry, but we're talking about fantasy novels here, not the "real world". I think it's rather insulting to peoples' intelligence to suggest that they can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality.