The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #107116   Message #2220339
Posted By: Peace
21-Dec-07 - 10:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: Failure of Feminism?
Subject: RE: BS: Failure of Feminism?
Women wanting and being active in a quest for equality in countries controlled by arseholes like the Taliban or right-of-Hitler religious leaders are very brave. It is easier (well, ya don't often get killed for it) in North America where all that has to be fought is ignorance and institutional sexism. My girls are probably the only two people on this planet I would commit 'murder one' for. What kind of world is it when young kids are used as sex objects, where sentences for rape are in single digits, where spousal abuse is 90% men battering women, where people (women people) don't feel safe walking streets at night? This kinda crap IS the responsibility of all men. Equality of women is NOT just a women's issue. I would hope at least that men who have daughters would try to see things from the perspective of being men who have daughters. Some things are real basic to me: touch my girls and I will arrange for the guy(s) to enjoy their last few moments in the trunk of a car. If anyone thinks that's bluster then you just don't know me at all. Tell me: what the hell kind of world is it when a woman can be gang-raped and the bastards get a slap on the wrist for it? What kind of world? And what kind of men are we if we do not do our best to change that?