I'm so glad that you are doing this Julie. "Equality feminism" has been an utter and complete failure of liberation . It has just given us ubiquitous, degrading and abusive porn, even more prostitution, surrogacy, the elimination of women as a sex class, the loss of words that describe us, and the lunacy of men calling their sex envy and desire to be women a "human rights" issue, not to mention a bunch of well paid women whio call themselves feminists serving, and being highly rewarded by, the patriarchy. It's about time a high profile feminist tackled this - and of course it has to be you, because you are the bravest of the lot! Huge admiration to you. ❤️
And of course equality between the people who make and feed the babies, and those that are free of these extremely time and energy consuming tasks, can never be achieved in any simple manner. Financial compensation would help, especially if it was a tax on the sex that doesn't have to contribute this vital work to society, but that's not ever likely to happen. In the conclusion to my thesis on justice for women who defend themselves against their abusers (https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/3429?show=full ) I wrote that what these, and all women need is a constitutional right against gender domination (now I'd make that sex domination) so that domestic violence, rape etc, could be prosecuted as an abuse of women's rights and punished much more severely - while prevention strategies would be more likely to be properly funded and implemented. Thanks to patriarchal media and political bias, most people in the West, even many who call themselves feminists (including my daughter), don't begin to realise the comprehensive harms that male domination wreaks upon women and girls (and boys) in our so-called sex-progressive West. If we could change this, and I think the trans movement has actually helped to begin to expose the dirty woman-hating attitude of a significant number of men at all levels of our societies, as well as women's readiness to appease these men in the name of being 'kind', I think we might begin to create a more sex-'equal' and truly feminist society.
the 50% women representation in govt would not be enough. If I look at female govt leaders, I don’t see that they are representing female liberation either (look at Janica Arden, Julia Gillard, Nicola Sturgeon). We need a female overwhelming majority in govt! Seen a study detailing how when men occupy more than 30% of the room, they take over conversation from women, because they are more forceful and women are conditioned to be overly polite. Men are oppressing women even if they are in the minority. I would be a fan of no men in positions of power actually (also no men with access to the volnurable - childrens docs, obgyn etc).
I'm so glad that you are doing this Julie. "Equality feminism" has been an utter and complete failure of liberation . It has just given us ubiquitous, degrading and abusive porn, even more prostitution, surrogacy, the elimination of women as a sex class, the loss of words that describe us, and the lunacy of men calling their sex envy and desire to be women a "human rights" issue, not to mention a bunch of well paid women whio call themselves feminists serving, and being highly rewarded by, the patriarchy. It's about time a high profile feminist tackled this - and of course it has to be you, because you are the bravest of the lot! Huge admiration to you. ❤️
And of course equality between the people who make and feed the babies, and those that are free of these extremely time and energy consuming tasks, can never be achieved in any simple manner. Financial compensation would help, especially if it was a tax on the sex that doesn't have to contribute this vital work to society, but that's not ever likely to happen. In the conclusion to my thesis on justice for women who defend themselves against their abusers (https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/3429?show=full ) I wrote that what these, and all women need is a constitutional right against gender domination (now I'd make that sex domination) so that domestic violence, rape etc, could be prosecuted as an abuse of women's rights and punished much more severely - while prevention strategies would be more likely to be properly funded and implemented. Thanks to patriarchal media and political bias, most people in the West, even many who call themselves feminists (including my daughter), don't begin to realise the comprehensive harms that male domination wreaks upon women and girls (and boys) in our so-called sex-progressive West. If we could change this, and I think the trans movement has actually helped to begin to expose the dirty woman-hating attitude of a significant number of men at all levels of our societies, as well as women's readiness to appease these men in the name of being 'kind', I think we might begin to create a more sex-'equal' and truly feminist society.
the 50% women representation in govt would not be enough. If I look at female govt leaders, I don’t see that they are representing female liberation either (look at Janica Arden, Julia Gillard, Nicola Sturgeon). We need a female overwhelming majority in govt! Seen a study detailing how when men occupy more than 30% of the room, they take over conversation from women, because they are more forceful and women are conditioned to be overly polite. Men are oppressing women even if they are in the minority. I would be a fan of no men in positions of power actually (also no men with access to the volnurable - childrens docs, obgyn etc).