- Joined
- Apr 19, 2016
In arranged marriages men often don't get to choose who they get married to either, it's the parents who choose. Just saying.Being married off to a guy in exchange for a dowry is a lot like slavery, though. Arranged marriages still happen in the world today. And men were allowed to "discipline" their wives until modern times without any penalty. Women couldn't own or inherit property. So, while certainly I'm not downplaying the horrors of slavery or lynching or any of that -- women have had far less rights than men for a long time.
My point, though, was that in a country where black people were initially thought of as not fully human, they still managed to get the vote 50 years before white women who were considered human. They thought that black men, who they once thought were only slightly smarter than cattle, were still intellectually superior to women. And it took them 50 years to change their minds. So, yeah, women are a little salty that a bunch of men pretending to be women are trying to come in and get access to the things that we had to fight to get.
Personally I'm salty because I get the impression a lot of "dysphoria" stems from the fact that men can't be arsed to fight for equality in gender presentation. Thanks to feminism, for decades women have been allowed to wear pants and engage in male hobbies without being called freaks. Men, on the other hand, get shamed for enjoying feminine things. Yet instead of fighting for equality like we did, they try to say they're females.