Look, I am all for a unified party, no question about that. On the other hand, I think the insertion of the congress into the primary race was a bit out of bounds. And yes, I know the Founding Fathers didn't exactly believe in pure elections. They did create a system where the state assemblies could pick Senators.
Anyway, I am sorry to see Hillary suspend her campaign under duress. She's going against her character, which is a shame. I believe her tenacity and fighting spirit were two of her best qualities. Two qualities which are routinely vilified in women.
Obviously, women have a much more insidious mind set to overcome in this country. Not that Blacks, Hispanics, or other races, have it easy. Despite Barack Obama's successful primary run, it is still a long way before equality of race is the norm in this country. Still, I believe women's equality has one big block that the minorities don't experience; there are women that do not believe in feminism.
Now, I am not about to claim that a majority of women oppose feminism. But enough that the misogamist mindset is able to sustain itself. Nor am I suggesting the misogamist mindset is the reason Obama won the Democratic primary.
I challenge anyone to show me a block of the Black populace in this country that is advocating a return to Jim Crow laws. Yet, the site linked above is advocating a return to pre-industrial life for women. Hell, I've heard a woman state that women have no place in the voting booth!
As a whole, though, our country has made great strides in equality. But equality is a marathon race, not a sprint, and we've got a hell of a long way to go still.
Anyway, I am sorry to see Hillary suspend her campaign under duress. She's going against her character, which is a shame. I believe her tenacity and fighting spirit were two of her best qualities. Two qualities which are routinely vilified in women.
Obviously, women have a much more insidious mind set to overcome in this country. Not that Blacks, Hispanics, or other races, have it easy. Despite Barack Obama's successful primary run, it is still a long way before equality of race is the norm in this country. Still, I believe women's equality has one big block that the minorities don't experience; there are women that do not believe in feminism.
Now, I am not about to claim that a majority of women oppose feminism. But enough that the misogamist mindset is able to sustain itself. Nor am I suggesting the misogamist mindset is the reason Obama won the Democratic primary.
I challenge anyone to show me a block of the Black populace in this country that is advocating a return to Jim Crow laws. Yet, the site linked above is advocating a return to pre-industrial life for women. Hell, I've heard a woman state that women have no place in the voting booth!
As a whole, though, our country has made great strides in equality. But equality is a marathon race, not a sprint, and we've got a hell of a long way to go still.
You seem to state that all women (or all women who matter) are white. That's not only wrong, it reinforces the enormous privilege that white women enjoy in this country.
Women of color are dealing with two problems, not just one. Lesbians of color have three.
The reality is that women had to wait more that half a century after minority men were given the vote, before their right to vote was recognized.
No one demanded that Jessie Jackson quit when he ran, only Hillary Clinton was faced with this. Obviously the rules are different for men than women, no matter what their color.
This should be about human rights. All humans should have the same rights.
Obviously, Names4things, I wrote this post poorly. I did not mean to imply any such thing. When I speak about women, I mean women, of any color, race, or creed. And when I speak of minorities, I speak of both sexes of the minorities and the bigotry and racism they face from the white minority majority.
In fact, when writing this post, I considered stating that minority women have even more misogyny to deal with than the majority of white women in this nation. But I was writing about American women and misogyny in general and simply do not have enough knowledge or experience to speak about minority women and the repression they experience within their own communities.
Your points are right on the mark, Rook, or at least they coincide exactly with what I've seen and heard through the years, and I've had a lot of contact with women of both general ancestries. The drive for the Equal Rights Amendment of some years ago and the finally successful fight against it, led by Phyllis Schafly and others like her, come to mind.
One principal reason for this submission to inferior status may be that a number of women are hooked up with reprobate men that they don't want to antagonize. This suggests, among other things, that some number of women may be every bit as much under the hammer of supposedly Christian men as they are, to mention just one group, under Muslim men overseas.