Feminism's Long March - You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (Or Have You?)
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These days it may be hard for some to believe, but before the women’s movement burst on the scene in the late 1960s, newspapers published ads for jobs on different pages, segregated by gender. Employers legally paid women less than men for the same work. Some bars refused to serve women and all banks denied married women credit or loans, a practice which didn’t change until 1974. Some states even excluded women from jury duty.
Radio producers considered women’s voices too abrasive to be on the air and television executives believed that women didn’t have sufficient credibility to anchor the news. Few women ran big corporations or universities, or worked as firefighters and police officers. None sat on the Supreme Court, installed electrical equipment, climbed telephone poles, or owned construction companies. All hurricanes had female names, due to the widely held view that women brought chaos and destruction to society.
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So, yes, we’ve come a long way, but without achieving full access to legal abortion, comprehensive childcare, or equal pay -- those three demands from so many decades ago. Nor have we won the right to enjoy public space without fearing violence, rape, or worse.
I always knew this was the longest revolution, one that would take a century or more to unfold. It’s upended most of our lives, and significantly improved so many of them. Nothing will ever be the same. Yet there’s still such a long way to go. I doubt I’ll see full gender equality in my lifetime.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175651/tomgram%3A_ruth_rosen%2C_feminism%27s_long_march/#more
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I don't think its submission as much as it a lack of awareness, of wanting to be on the same 'team'. And some women believe that certain things don't matter, or don't matter as much which-is the same argument you get against feminism when you point out sexist language.
In my real life, I don't allow sexist comments to slide by. I'm assertive as hell. On-line, I'm often baffled by it, because I know particular comments wouldn't be defended as they are here; some that have embedded themselves like a tick, like the word 'bitch' are used, but that's easily turned around by using even more offensive language in a 'how do you like me now' way I have of making a point about language.
Face to face its easy to talk to decent women and men. Conversations don't devolve as they do online. Well they might, but I win. 
But social media is how we're communicating more and more, and it makes the fight both easier and harder; easier because there are so many places to speak up, harder because of the facelessness and anonymity allows masks to come off.
DU, as bad as it can be is an interesting study In this because it has so many long time members, over time they form a pattern, show more of themselves, sometimes people do change and grow. I think the ones who have unexpected meltdowns are the ones who just can't, for whatever reason. Or they are simply just spending too much time online.
But it is tiresome, seeing progressive women submit to sexist crap. It's tiresome to hear progressive men spout it off, and defend it. Especially the ones who seem otherwise quite bright.
Eh, I'm babbling. Time for bed and work tomorrow.
i was also uncomfortable knowing they were strangers, the tight hold and her nonparticpation in an act the man deemed warranted without her ok.
