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In reply to the discussion: To the younger women of DU: [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)is exactly where some some would like us to stop. "Benevolent sexism" like Lois Jenson and others experienced at Evelyth Taconite, where they dared to take jobs as taconite miners. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenson_v._Eveleth_Taconite_Co. The "benovlence" included male workers' ejaculating on the women's clothing and lockers, and breaking into Lois Jenson's home and threatening her son by knifepoint, all while management did nothing. http://www.bernabeipllc.com/pdfs/Kabatarticle.pdf
Then there is the benevolent issue of married women having no right to private property and employers being allowed to legally refuse to hire women just because they were women.
1/3 of American women today experience the "benevolence" of rape and/or physical assault by a partner or family member.
Yeah, we should have stopped at 1920 because you say so. Anything after that was just a drag to those men pissed off about having to treat women as human beings and not being able to get a job over a smarter, better educated women just because he is male.
And of course our basic right to be free from rape and assault is just "small potatoes.'
But it's not up to us. You proclaim our basic rights small potatoes, and that's really what matters. We're only women.