My Theory About Why Feminism is Currently Irrelevent to Millenials

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Absolutely. But at the same time you also have to remember: for the vast majority of human history half of all humans were considered property. Obviously things have changed a bit in the last century or so, but it's all still very recent in historical terms. Heck, less than a hundred years ago women in America didn't even get their own citizenship: there are still people alive today who were alive back when a woman marrying a non-American meant that they stopped being American!

My point is that systematic oppression like that doesn't just go away overnight, and even though we've seen lots of progress, we shouldn't mistake progress for the problem being solved (more women doctors doesn't mean half our society has equal opportunities to the other half).

You can't have a ref who cheats and throws the game to one team for the almost the entire game, and then two minutes before the buzzer throw in a ref who calls things more fairly (but still not completely fairly), and declare that both teams are equal and can now play the game normally.

Only half?

For most of history basically everyone has been property. Slowly more people became land owners (mainly men) which granted them a degree of self determination (and political rights).

People talk about how raw deal women got, but it was only a very narrow period where non-land owning men had any significant political or social power before female entitlements also began to arise.