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41. "Did"? Is it over?

Reply to leftyladyfrommo (Original post)

Thu Mar 8, 2012, 01:37 PM

Mar 2012

As LisaM says in her sig line, "I'll be post-feminist in the post-patriarchy."

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Did the Feminist Movement Get Us Anywhere? [View all] leftyladyfrommo Mar 2012 OP

It is discouraging. I'm older than you but I thought everything was going so well in the 70s. CTyankee Mar 2012 #1

I know. leftyladyfrommo Mar 2012 #4

Yes and No atreides1 Mar 2012 #2

Yes, definitely treestar Mar 2012 #3

I'm afraid that all women really got leftyladyfrommo Mar 2012 #10

If one word from one man can undo it all for you... Iggo Mar 2012 #5

One word from one 'man' did not undo it all....... wandy Mar 2012 #16

and to reduce those three days to one man is dismissive. he felt he was allowed to do this. it took seabeyond Mar 2012 #21

I did not by any means intend to trivialize this.... wandy Mar 2012 #27

That "word" came on the heels of years and years of other words. It was the straw that kestrel91316 Mar 2012 #32

I could have expressed that better, and I apologize for that. Iggo Mar 2012 #35

Yeah, we got somewhere. aquart Mar 2012 #6

I believe your answer is included in the question: "It was different then because women really Vincardog Mar 2012 #7

Women can and have historically had their rights stripped from them. CTyankee Mar 2012 #13

AS have everyone that could not fight back. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Vincardog Mar 2012 #14

Social change is like waves on the shore Demeter Mar 2012 #8

we cant be got with kitchen and barefoot. that ship sailed and never be able to get us there again. seabeyond Mar 2012 #9

That's what I'm beginning to thing, too. leftyladyfrommo Mar 2012 #15

yup. and it is in your face obvious as we pretend it is not a reality seabeyond Mar 2012 #20

The ugly is just as ugly, but the good is more prevalent because of the 2nd-wave feminists. ZombieHorde Mar 2012 #11

If you have the money to fight. leftyladyfrommo Mar 2012 #19

You have good points, but I think you and your allies acomplished a lot for my daughter, ZombieHorde Mar 2012 #46

Yes of course. MoonRiver Mar 2012 #12

My boss is a woman... KansDem Mar 2012 #17

Yes bigwillq Mar 2012 #18

What we're seeing/hearing now is not a failure of feminism... vi5 Mar 2012 #22

Rush can't be used as a measure of anything that is real EFerrari Mar 2012 #23

Three steps forward, two steps back... LanternWaste Mar 2012 #24

Yes, it got us somewhere. dixiegrrrrl Mar 2012 #25

geez, talk about carrying the water of the enemy! TorchTheWitch Mar 2012 #55

Which one? Get who anywhere? Define "anywhere." Taverner Mar 2012 #26

Sig line-worthy CBHagman Mar 2012 #52

It got us a huge step forward. Skidmore Mar 2012 #28

+1. nt seabeyond Mar 2012 #30

Yes - and I am in your age group. The right wing is just wackier right now and if anything jillan Mar 2012 #29

Well I wouldn't have had a prayer of becoming a veterinarian if not for the entire kestrel91316 Mar 2012 #31

One thing I can think of off the the top... Tikki Mar 2012 #33

We have to keep fighting. nolabear Mar 2012 #34

Major social change is not a binary operation Spike89 Mar 2012 #36

Yes, it did. But forever and ever, there will be attempts to go back in time... Honeycombe8 Mar 2012 #37

Our society has traded corruption for civility just1voice Mar 2012 #38

In 1969, I could not get a job as a mail carrier or a school bus driver LiberalEsto Mar 2012 #39

Sure it did or they would not have anything to try to take away from us. What we did not accomplish jwirr Mar 2012 #40

"Did"? Is it over? KamaAina Mar 2012 #41

Women walking away from patriarchal religions and into the workplace RainDog Mar 2012 #42

Yes, but we didn't understand completely. s-cubed Mar 2012 #43

What we're seeing a lot of now is a backlash against second wave feminism XemaSab Mar 2012 #44

Even moreso toward 3rd wave feminism loyalsister Mar 2012 #49

If you measure our success by what Rush Limbaugh says lunatica Mar 2012 #45

the feminist movement got us a lot arely staircase Mar 2012 #47

You made a HUGE difference. I never thanked older feminist enough when I was a young. shcrane71 Mar 2012 #48

big difference between trying to taking away rights Johonny Mar 2012 #50

Go to the ERA thread here on DU SugarShack Mar 2012 #51

It did back then when republicans were mostly moderate marlakay Mar 2012 #53

agreed. i am think more a decade and half. nt seabeyond Mar 2012 #54