I don't think the feminists movement has given us much. The right to vote, sure, but it used to be that men would raise from their seats and remove their hats when a lady entered the room. Just like royalty.
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Yes, how dare those Suffragettes give you the right to vote and ensure that you're no longer treated like a second class citizen, damn man-hatin', lesbian, PMSing bitches.
Oh, and those "racial equality" folks were horrible! Back in the old days, we white people used to work hard to bring civilization and culture to the dark savages. The white man's burden placed the lesser races in a position of respect.
Hey dumbshit, you forgot a few things beside the right to vote, the right to own property, the right to raise your own children if your husband dies, the right to enter into a binding legal contract. the right to sue. Of course none of that is as important as having some bozo stand up when you enter a room
Cause everyone knows being legally treated like property is better than freedom to vote, hold property, divorce, and work for a fair wage (okay...still working on that).
You know, Usually when I follow the link to the boards, I find a little bit of comfort in the usual beat down that takes place after such an ignorant statement. It seems every one on this board agrees with her (except for one person). Also I learned that the feminist movement is the reason why men cheat on their spouses! Isn't there a Marching Proudly into the 16th Century Award? This is my nomination
Nowadays, men don't take their hats off when a woman enters the room.
Nowadays, women don't automatically do what men say because they can't divorce, can't own property, can't vote, and are pretty much slaves.
Yeah, times change, don't they?
Diane!, if you ever make it to an afterlife, you'd better pray you don't run into Susan B. Anthony, Victoria Woodhull, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, or other suffragists; they'll kick your tush into the next millennium.
~David D.G.
So, let me get this straight, because women can now vote the "take your hat of when a woman enters the room"-gene has been removed from male dna?
And just like royalty.. Just how many kings and princes do you think took their hat of when a waiting maid entered the room? Or their concubine? Or the slave that was forced to srub the floors? How many farmers removed their hats because they wanted to and not because they would be killed if they didn't remove it in the presence of royalty? And how many of those same farmers removed their hats for their own wifes?
And maybe the most important one of all: how many women were ALLOWED to enter a room when the guys had a party back in the good ol' days? Didn't they have their own rooms in which they were confined?
And a more resent development: How many men actually wear hats these days?
Only upper class women, or royalty, got treated that way. Or if they were really attractive, which isn't much different today really.
What planet are you living on that you think women were treated like royalty?! Women who belonged to important families were treated like very expensive precious property, because that's exactly what they were. And they were traded, exactly like property. Other women were treated like shit.
I can open my own doors, be they to buildings or cars, I don't care if you stand when I enter the room, some of you are so ugly you should leave your hats on, and you don't have to watch your fucking language around me.
Can I go vote now?
First of all, you'd rather have men take off their hats when they walk in than have the right to vote?
And number two, why are women so great that men have to treat them like royalty? Men are only required to treat women like human beings, and visa versa.
It's because of feminism that you can post your drivel on the Internet; heck, it's probably because of feminism that you can even manage to own a computer, buy it with your own money! Ungrateful airhead.
Well Diane, it looks like you'll have to actually earn the respect you think that you are entitled to.
On the plus side, thanks to the brave work of the early feminists you so ignorantly dismiss, you have many, MANY options for doing so.
I must say I'd rather have the right to vote than the right to watch people stand and take their hats off when I arrive.
Where I lived before, in Sweden's second-largest city, people were fairly equal. They held up doors for the person behind them, regardless of gender, and younger people sometimes gave away their seats to older infirm-looking people.
Where I live now, in a small city, people are much more "chivalrous"; men hold doors for women and give their seats to them, even though the men might need the seat better, and they get flustered if I hold the door for them.
I much prefer the equal approach. I think the feminists movement has given us very much, but there is still much to do, sadly.
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