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Tue, Jul 15th - 9:04AM
Feminism Still Matters
Someone sent us an email recently and it was an argument that we've heard before.
"Feminism is dead, we already have equality."
She then argued that the only countries that still need feminism is countries like Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. She used this justify that feminism is Western culture is no longer needed and that feminists are basically just a bunch of troublemakers.
But she is ignoring a fundamental problem. We're not equal and we're certainly not treated equally. Equal in law perhaps, but statistics will show that women still don't enter politics that often, still don't make as much as men do, are treated as sexual objects or motherly matrons, and some people still get upset at the sight of a woman breastfeeding.
Also, Islamic countries are hardly the only countries that treat poorly. People in western China still sells women and children into slavery. Indeed if you go world wide you find problems all over the world, like femicide in Guatemala and Canada.
The point I'm trying to make is that feminism is not dead. Its barely even begun.
See also:
The Ten Worst Countries for Women.
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