Reply #16: The trouble is this:

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Feminism/humanism.

The constitution reads "all men are created equal" and people will say, "oh yeah - but it was talking about women also". Well - it wasn't. Women didn't vote - there weren't property rights for women, etc.

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/ency/blwh_property.htm

So part of it is - there is a need to overcome all of this bad history. And even history - or especially history (books, classes, etc.) perpetuates the lack of feminism as part of humanism. When you hear nearly totally about what the men did.

Which is why there was outrage about a thread that dissed "Women's Studies" on a supposedly progressive board. If all of the history classes covered what women did as much as they do what men did - it wouldn't be an issue.

And actually - I would like to know a lot more than I do.