Dirty Paki Khunt wrote on Jun 20
th, 2012 at 10:19am:
Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Jun 19
th, 2012 at 11:25am:
It has achieved what it set out to achieve. The vast majority, if not all, the reforms outlined by the 1st and 2nd wave have been accomplished. Can you show me one area where women aren't allowed equality of opportunity?
Sure. The vast majority of the world. India, Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa.
Less than 20% of the world's population live in developed countries. The rest live in rural villages or rapidly industrialising cities.
Equal wages, child care, shelter from domestic violence, etc, rates a mention in a few places, but not many.
Take India. The middle classes are well-educated and informed. Women's issues get a fair bit of airplay on TV, in parliament, and in general political debate.
But in 80% of the country, women are still little more than chattel. Even wealthy, Western-educated professional women have their marriages arranged by their parents.
So - in 20% of the world, women are entitled to equality of opportunity. In the rest, it's business as usual.
Feminism is still relevant.
ADDS:- So - er - in that 20% - where you cite the absolute difference between the Indian middle classes and the poor - exactly how much better do men fare overall?
You cannot compare the middle classes with the rest and make that your blanket statement - and you provide support for the old contention that 'feminism' is a middle class movement designed to privilege that class.
REPEATS:- As for the rest of the world? Feminism, with its rhetorical intrusions into other nations, is abrogating the rights of those nations to self-government, and is creating a situation in many where we of the West, because of the never-ending feminist virulent verbal attacks, are seen as 'crusaders' and 'cultural imperialists' - which, in turn, creates insecurity and potential terrorism for the West.
Now - you wanna be a crusader and go out and fix all those problems? Go for it - but why do we of the West have to continue to be battered over all the silly issues that feminism keeps dredging up, and the lies it insists on telling about 'wage gaps' , political representation, the rape industry, the DV industry and so forth?
These are problems created by government on behalf if its delusions of women's rights and equalities, and they need fixing here and now!
How about starting at home first with all the very deep wrongs and divisions in Australia at the moment.
Whoever said that fathers who abuse etc are getting custody needs to stand back and look at the facts...I've never heard of a single instance of any such thing - and with the current climate of accepting anything a woman says as 'abuse' - there is no yardstick by which to judge at all anyway!
Fathers rarely get custody overall.
What I do recall clearly is the article about the magistrate who wrote an apology to the children concerned over his own doubts and indeed rejection of claims of abuse by the mother - after he awarded custody to her anyway and savaged the father's visiting rights anyway - on the basis that it was sufficient that she 'believed' the abuse to have been the case!
WTF sort of law is that?
Hey - I believe ea
ch of you owes me $1m - fork over!
LATE ADDITION BEFORE I GO:- (**coughs**) I have a 17 year old girl friend (not girlfriend) in Malaysia - she has health problems, wants to be an electronics engineer and would love to serve in their armed forces, and her parents do not expect that she marry on order, but choose her mate for herself.
I believe we can seriously over-generalise the situation in many of those countries, and thereby run the risk of shooting all the cats as grey ones...
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