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We just going to ignore that this was the first one in 70 years?

> It just goes to show, it's never about gender, just about choices, ambition and how brave you choose to be.

Then why is this newsworthy?

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Because, I suppose, people seem to have forgotten that.

Forgotten what? If gender doesn't matter then why is this newsworthy? And if people forgot something then why did they forget it in the first place?

Hahaha this is funny even if we agreed you couldn't say anything nice because you hated my first comment so much. I think you should think about that why would you hate something fundamentally empowering for people about choices unless you had something to gain from people being disempowered?

Gender doesn't matter, except when it matters. We just seem to not be able to agree where and when it matters.

I'm clear on it. I'm against people saying gender matters because it makes me weak and a victim and I can't do anything and therefore people should give to me because of my gender rather than me having to create for myself. so people forget that it's about choices and ambition and bravery just like I said in the monkey comment. I'm for people saying gender matters where it's like whatever qualities you want to associate with your gender as something that you draw strength from. I'm against the sort of self-hating insecurity about gender that seem to come out of Western American culture.

So how do you explain why it's been so long since we've seen an alpha female macaque?

Are you implying that male and female macaque's are the same and that male macaque's are sexist?

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