• volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      True the Soviets never came around on LGBT issues, which is a shame.

      Not even completely true. After the civil war and prior to the crackdowns of the 30s, gay marriage was legalized, and there were soviet scientists already proclaiming that gender was more akin to a spectrum than to a binary. Sadly, that progress was lost forever after Stalinism.

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      4 months ago

      Unfucking it and refucking it and unfucking it again is not exactly success. No more so than recent changes to abortion in the US. And there’s a whole lot more to Feminism than abortion.

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          4 months ago

          Yes, I’m quite sure in the context of my original argument that Russia was and is culturally conservative. A society that goes backwards like that never had a solid feminist culture to begin with.

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              4 months ago

              Nullifies, no. Shows that the west doesn’t have a solid feminist culture, yes. Same goes for the old USSR.