Reply #44: Those are all good points. Another good point is that we cannot

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"Liberate" women at the same time that our policies end up in their dying.

And who are we to go around and tell the rest of the world to treat their women better? Our women in the Armed Services are supposed to shut the F___ up if they are raped by their comrades in arms.

Our women here earn 73 cents for every dollar that men make. (Older women probably make a lot less than that.)

When I came of age, most women could not aspire to be construction workers, police "men", fire fighters, engineers, or doctors or lawyers. Women were not even hired to do sales! When/if they did manage to get one of these jobs, they were paid less. Often the executive secretaries were running the company, but could not be promoted because they lacked the MBA that was required. (And since their pay was abysmal, they couldn't make enough to ever consider spending the time in school to get that degree.)

When I went to engineering school I was one of two women in a class of twenty eight people.

We need to fix our country before we run around pretending to fix other nations.