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Can architecture and design help improve women's rights?

Being that women are outnumbering men in college, maybe we should be talking about empowering men?

How about just empowering people?

Oh, yeah, that's what the United States Constituion did. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

...written by white male slaveowners. Social engineers should not be limited by such antiquated concepts as rule-of-law.

/sarcasm

That's exacly what many of my liberal friends say, and they're being completely serious.

...I spend much more time listening to "my liberal friends" than I do conservative sources. I already know what conservatives think. It's far more educational keeping up with what the liberals are thinking.

By empowering women even more, the world will take even steeper dive into trivialization.

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