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Are you sure you aren’t applying 21st century standards to a patriarchal value system that was normal then but no longer informs the ethos of our society?

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Gender egalitarian society.

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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind

is to survive and move to higher levels - (Einstein).

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Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.Violence ends up defeating itself.

It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers - (Dr Martin Luther King Jr).

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A society that values women without diminishing men.

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Raise daughters to take their place as equals and feel confident, beautiful, capable, and courageous. Raise sons to love and admire their female equals -  (Maleka from Merumaya)

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It takes a strong back

and a soft front

to face the world.

— (Roshi Joan Halifax).

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I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation - (Wednesday Addams)

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There's a blessed equity in the English social system that ensures the public school man against starvation

- (Captain Grimes from Decline and Fall written by Eleanor Waugh).

The above quote and the 'tempering discretion with deceit' notion reminds the Domestic Goblin of certain buffoons in the Tory party... 

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Their democratic flavour doesn't suit my palate (Lestat, Interview with the Vampire)

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