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In reply to the discussion: Since anyone with a penis is a potential rapist there is only but one (or two) answers: [View all]Whovian
(2,866 posts)111. Women, religions, races... there is oppression far too often but inroads have been made.
Female circumcision is against the law in many countries, gay rights are being discussed and given credence, we now have hate crime laws for race, religious and gender based crimes, MLK woke America up addressing Civil Rights in a way that changed all American lives especially in the black community, There are laws giving rights to the handicapped and assuring they have access to everything that those of us who have working legs do. Workers, the poor, the unions, the Jews, Latino/Latina migrant farm workers have been and are still being oppressed.
So, yes. Women have been suppressed. But inroads have been made from the days of suffrage to the ERA.
First cry of repression recorded in history:
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Since anyone with a penis is a potential rapist there is only but one (or two) answers: [View all]
Whovian
Dec 2012
OP
Women, religions, races... there is oppression far too often but inroads have been made.
Whovian
Dec 2012
#111
It comes from the book Global Woman. I don't have the specific page number handy.
antigone382
Dec 2012
#15
Considering that India and China together has a large part of the population of the world
KitSileya
Dec 2012
#46
I posted a link to a thread I made the other day in an edit to the previous response.
antigone382
Dec 2012
#29
History is more than merely one thing, regardless of what bumper-stickers may say.
LanternWaste
Dec 2012
#64
If you like history, you should be able to quickly research such things yourself. India is
Zorra
Dec 2012
#38
Well the links I provided did offer some history. I didn't expect to have to spell it out.
antigone382
Dec 2012
#73
Shocking! But you do, of course, realize that no example that you post will ever be good enough, no
Zorra
Dec 2012
#72
One of the most common themes in Western art is the "rape of the Sabine women."
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#136
Guess what? *I* can't tell when someone has the intention of trying to mug me...
a geek named Bob
Dec 2012
#39
"There's a lot of implication that men NEED to take special courses." Well, Bob, if the
retread
Dec 2012
#57
gollygee, I learned a long time ago to NOT count on other people for protection...
a geek named Bob
Dec 2012
#127
THank you for the compliment! I will keep in my list of happy thoughts.
a geek named Bob
Dec 2012
#109
I imagine the person who allows only one (or two) solutions to any given problem is either
LanternWaste
Dec 2012
#68