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In reply to the discussion: Baby boomers Ruined America: Why Blaming Millennials is Misguided — and Annoying [View all]whathehell
(30,456 posts)Do you think that women's lives have improved over the last half century or so?
As a male, this may be something you don't think of much, so I ask you, just for a moment, to imagine being female. Add to that the fact of living in a city, and, being of modest means, possessing no car or other private transportation.
I'm white, yes, but I've ALSO suffered the daily "indignity and discrimination" of Sexism, not only on a verbal and economic level, but a PHYSICAL one as well, since I've been attacked BECAUSE of my gender, and live under the daily THREAT of being attacked again, a situation that is NOT improved by living in a hyper-sexualized society that demeans and insults females "for shits and giggles" every day.
I'd say a "Strong Black man" might want to compare that to his own situation, because my answer to my own question is "Yes, women's lives HAVE improved, even though,
I've lived with that shit EVERY day!