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Geno
Lv 7
Geno asked in Social ScienceGender Studies · 9 years ago

Feminists, explain how you're "oppressed" in America?

http://www.girlpowermarketing.com/women_statistics...

Please stay within our lifetimes, and don't include regions of the world where western men are coming back in body bags, already fighting for women's rights.

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  • Thomas
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    I don't think you're going to get too many answers with true oppression. 3rd wave feminism is about female privilege and perks and has nothing to do with equality. They know it, too.

  • Mk
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    I agree that "oppression" is too strong of a word, but I still feel that there's a need for feminism.

    But really? The wars that the US is involved in have nothing to do with women's rights. If people do gain more rights in those areas, it's a side effect. Have we actually been at war for so long that people are forgetting why we started?

    We're in the middle east because of 9-11, not burkas.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    "Oppressed" is far too strong a word for the state of women in America today.

    However, are they always treated as equals? No. Are there cultural double standards against them? Yes.

    In other words, feminism can still be relevant in the absence of anything that amounts to "oppression."

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    President Obama is advancing the targets of president Bush Our distant places coverage is basically the Bush coverage- u.s. is the police adult males of the observe and occupies midsection east countries and forces democracy onto them. we are the torturers of the twenty first Century- weren't advertising any peace what-so-ever by potential of blowing up bridges and properties in Iraq and Afghanistan with a view to convey stability to Iraq? I mean heavily what's going at right here? We use our tax money to explode bridges in Iraq and we additionally use them to repair them. you think of that money might desire to be spent at homestead relatively then distant places. perchance we ought to constantly positioned ourselves earlier Iraq. I mean i do no longer mean to sound Sooooo selfish, besides the shown fact that that's OUR money- shouldn't it rather is invested in us? So the Peace keeper of the international (u . s . a .) Occupies over 700 countries worldwide with millitary bases and has secret penal complex camps around the globe. What has history taught us? Vietnam became an attrocious conflict and we achieved greater by potential of settling on the shown fact that Vietnam is Communist and could constantly be- We shouldn't attempt to tension democracy on them and now we commerce with the Vietnamese. If we would desire to proceed to loose our liberties right here at homestead with socialized medecine, training and who's usual with what down the line, properly in my opinion, I relatively take the prospect of being no longer risk-free then loose my liberty "people who sacrifice liberty for secrurity deserve neither liberty nor risk-free practices." -Benjamin Franklin "supply me freedom or supply me dying" -Patrick Henry "u.s. won't in any respect loose from outdoors sources. if falter and get destroyed it will be because of the fact we destroyed ourselves" -Abraham Lincoln.

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  • 9 years ago

    feminists will come up with their own nonsense now

    where are these fools now ?

    they will always remain the victims of men ,always

    no hope

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