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In reply to the discussion: the biggest problem for women in america [View all]seabeyond
(110,159 posts)86. while class issue is a big issue and hits us all, we also know within our class there are misogynist
issues. and though class issues has its own cross to bear, that even if that was addressed perfectly, womens roles would still be secondary within that Utopian resolution of class issues.
womens issues are separate for a reason than the whole. jsut as black adn gay issues are. they are not part of the whole, to endure. they are for the individual groups to endure.
fixing the whole is not addressing our individual group grievances.
we can all get appropriate pay and there will still be a societal/culture conditioning restricting women and our rights.
that is what we are addressing
we can fight for us as a whole. and we will continue to fight for our individual rights to be a part of that whole.
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I think climate change is the greatest threat to America and the rest of the globe
NoOneMan
Dec 2013
#5
People could think about complex interactions in the 19th century; intersectionality is old wine
El_Johns
Dec 2013
#43
Systemic actual rape of women has absolutely nil to do with unfair wages.
Gravitycollapse
Dec 2013
#7
Power manifests itself in many ways. To understand that is to be multitalented.
Gravitycollapse
Dec 2013
#23
As I stated first, actual rape of women has nothing to do with the pay gap.
Gravitycollapse
Dec 2013
#27
I understand what you're talking about and your argument is not new to me.
Gravitycollapse
Dec 2013
#35
"Poverty is among the root causes of sexual violence and has a daily presence in the lives of many
arely staircase
Dec 2013
#71
would be an absolute dismissal of victims of rape. as long as you recognize what you stand by. nt
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#78
Frederick Engels "Within the family (man) is the bourgeois and the wife represents the proletariat."
Starry Messenger
Dec 2013
#11
the biggest problem for women in america is men telling us what our biggest problem is, and whining
niyad
Dec 2013
#16
quite the contrary. the adjective "most important" implies other problems
arely staircase
Dec 2013
#47
Thank you- to write this OP about how women's concerns are always secondary ....
bettyellen
Dec 2013
#51
If he had phrased it as about class exploitation as a central problem facing America
BainsBane
Dec 2013
#25
It's just a complete coincidence that it came in the midst of GD threads about rape culture
BainsBane
Dec 2013
#36
while class issue is a big issue and hits us all, we also know within our class there are misogynist
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#86
or simply a dismissal of womens issues? can we find common gorund. absolutely. do we do it at the
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#72
Seems the biggest problem is expressing an opinion without bouncing it off HOF first. lol
Demo_Chris
Dec 2013
#34
the regression of womens' reproductive rights is indeed one of the most important issues in American
arely staircase
Dec 2013
#54