# Please Join Me for the Pitting of LinusK

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**Created:** [July 20, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722 "2015-07-20T20:14:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-join-me-for-the-pitting-of-linusk/725722/22 "2015-07-21T11:44:53Z")

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The “best” (by which I mean worst) part of that thread was probably the bit about how there’s a bunch of important tasks that women supposedly not only don’t do now but couldn’t manage even if the continuation of human civilization depended on it, because we’d be too busy screaming about how we saw a roach:

> [@Anti-Feminism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/122):
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> On the other hand, if all men suddenly disappeared, women would find themselves in a different world from the one they currently live in. One without truckers or farmers or ranchers or miners or plumbers or sanitation workers or garbage men or engineers. Considering that many women get freaked out by the sight of a roach, I think they’d get pretty unhappy pretty soon, once the lights went out, their toilets stopped working, and the stuff at the grocery store disappeared.

Although it’s the bit about _Titanic_ – not even the actual Titanic, but the 1997 movie – that I kind of want to embroider on a sampler:

> [@Anti-Feminism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/97):
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> You might even expect them [feminists] to be outraged at the scene in Titanic, when Leonardo DiCaprio’s character freezes, and sinks to the bottom of the sea, while Kate Winslet floats away on her raft. (Why was it again that she gets the raft?)
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> But you don’t see that. Which leads me to the conclusion that “feminism is about equality” is a useful lie, rather than something that’s actually true about feminism.

For the rest of my life, whenever I hear any criticism of feminism, I’m going to remember this and – as Celine Dion would say – my heart will go on.

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