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In reply to the discussion: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists [View all]Squinch
(59,510 posts)not vote, or own their own property, or engage in any meaningful way in the financial arena, or make choices about their lives, or independently feed their children or put a roof over their heads, where they were allowed to be subjected to physical, sexual and financial abuse in their own homes without recourse, and where they had no choice but to submit to whatever emotional subjugation the "man of the family" chose to dish out to them, because they could not survive on their own. These conditions were built in the fabric of society and were believed by all to be the "natural order" and unchangeable.
The women's movement has taken women to a condition where they are no longer subject to physical, sexual and financial abuse in their homes because they are able to survive economically without a husband.
The women's movement achieved this astonishing feat in fewer than 80 years.
I'd say that we are doing pretty well, with or without the approval of the guys who "just wish we'd be sweeter" or who "just wish we'd work for rights for men too." (The latter, by the way, is really ridiculous. Even you must see that.)
Feminism doesn't need to be re-invented into anything other than what it is.