At a recent feminist conference, women were finally given equality, and height privilege removed by use of platform shoes, which we are currently lobbying to have made mandatory on college campus.
I'm waiting for these people to notice the passive tense actor in this type of writing.
"were given."
Who gave it to them? Why did they need this thing to be given to them? Equality (EQUALITY!) was achieved by the grace of an external actor rather than the assertion of the individual and her own merits? How did this actor have equality (EQUALITY!) just sitting around in his pockets, waiting to hand it out? If the goal is truly equity of outcome, why haven't they mobbed this external actor and taken all the equality (EQUALITY!) from him?
In this particular case involving people walking around on overbuilt solo cups, did no one measure the loss of dignity, the giggling, the laughing, the destruction of ambient peace from the echo of the CLOMP! CLOMP! as people strode around with Home Depot buckets strapped to their shoes? What impact did that have on this manifested and bestowed equality (EQUALITY!)?
Did anyone trip and hurt themselves due to unfamiliarity with these ad-hoc stilts? Were the people of target altitude maimed to adjust for equity in outcome?
What would happen if a particularly tall person entered the room, at 6'9" or so? Does everyone go get new stilts?
What would happen if Kenny Baker, Warwick Davis and Peter Dinklage entered? Are they issued 3 foot tall stilts? How do they don them? What if they need to use the bathroom (#1 or #2, each presents...difficulties!)?
This world needs a whole lot more philosophy and epistemology, and a whole lot less psychology and political science.