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WOMENS OPPRESSION
No country has achieved gender equality. Not a single one.
I've seen people sharing pictures of Muslim women who had been harmed in foreign acid attacks as “proof” that women in the west don’t have it so bad.
WOMENS OPPRESSION
No country has achieved gender equality. Not a single one.
I've seen people sharing pictures of Muslim women who had been harmed in foreign acid attacks as “proof” that women in the west don’t have it so bad.
Except, of course, we have acid attacks in the west as well. Such attacks are on the rise in Western countries, and the number of incidents in England has nearly doubled. Caustic substances are cheap and easy to obtain, and a desire to maim or scar
Is a derangement shared by people all over the world. Yes, you’re less likely to catch a face full of acid here, but it’s still a thing.
Young American girls by the thousands are sold or coerced into sexual slavery, https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1596778&page=1
Young American girls by the thousands are sold or coerced into sexual slavery, https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1596778&page=1
In america, many states also allow child marriage, meaning girls as young as twelve are married off to much older men, often their rapists.
https://boingboing.net/2017/02/16/america-where-hundreds-of-tho.html
America also has a vast history of female circumcision, FGM.
https://boingboing.net/2017/02/16/america-where-hundreds-of-tho.html
America also has a vast history of female circumcision, FGM.
Sarah Rodriguez wrote a really fantastic book on the subject exploring 150 years of the procedure and how it was used to treat what was considered sexual deviance. She turned up references to using it to treat masturbation in girls in medical literature as recently as the 1960s.
Not one country in the west has achieved equal pay for women, and there is a price to pay for being a mother, as your career will take a backseat while mens continues unchanged.
You'll never see a female prime minister or president surrounded by a room full of women as she signs a law restricting men’s reproductive health care. Yet with male leaders, that’s just normal. No one even thinks it’s noteworthy since it happens so frequently.
Abuse never looks like abuse if that’s all you know. You have to actively choose to see the world a different way than your default setting. The same for womens oppression.
It’s easy to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed when you’re young and it looks like the world is your oyster,
It’s easy to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed when you’re young and it looks like the world is your oyster,
And to pretend your home is a just place where just things happen more than they don’t. Certainly no one wants to consider the idea the system in place above her actively tries to hurt her over something like her sex.
It does, though, and there aren’t enough memes or appropriated pictures of foreign women in the world to make it not so. Any cursory look at statistics clearly shows there are quite enough reasons for western women to take to the streets and demand their countries stop screwing
them over.
I'm so sick and tired of being told that women in the western world aren't oppressed.
Women are oppressed no matter where we're from and trying to play oppression olympics by pointing out that some women have it worse helps no one.
I'm so sick and tired of being told that women in the western world aren't oppressed.
Women are oppressed no matter where we're from and trying to play oppression olympics by pointing out that some women have it worse helps no one.
