The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #107116   Message #2219882
Posted By: Stringsinger
20-Dec-07 - 04:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: Failure of Feminism?
Subject: RE: BS: Failure of Feminism?
I was wrong. M Ted, you are right. Susan B Anthony was a Quaker. The point I was making is that Elizabeth Cady Stanton was not religious and as a result was marginalized although she did as much as Anthony. The powers that be would never put a non-believer on a coin.
Even in 1954, "In God We Trust" was added as a political move.

I see nothing wrong with addressing the inequality of women with men as "feminism".
I think it defines a corrective in society when women were considered second-class citizens. I don't see that feminism was a failure here. When some women are allowed to
crash the glass ceiling in work, I don't see that as a failure either. So far, equal pay for equal work and an amendment to the Constitution of an Equal Rights Amendment have a role for feminism yet to pursue. Humanism requires feminism to function properly. If women are not considered equal to men, then there can be no humanism or justice.

Frank Hamilton