Making women cover up, hide their bodies, hide their faces, stay inside their houses, and all of that repressive stuff that you blatantly can't stand there and claim isn't happening, is a way in which objectification and sexualisation of females is realised.
I actually thought that I had specifically said that it wasn't happening IN THE WEST (although in rereading my previous post, that is clearly missing, sorry about that). Feminists IN THE WEST don't seem to care about women in other countries, and don't talk about those women's issues. Instead you've got people like Anita Sarkesian ranting about stupid shit like video games, even tho the link between video game violence and real world violence is tenuous at best, with studies that seem to show all three alternatives: it does have a link to violence, it doesn't have any effect on violence, and it reduces violence. The actual truth probably involves a combination of factors including age of the person, preexisting mental conditions, susceptibility to outside influences, disillusionment with society, parental neglect (parents replacing parenting with letting the child play video games all day), amount of time spent playing games vs amount of time interacting with real people, etc.
It's like the ban bossy movement in that respect: it's very nearly impossible, if not actually impossible, to isolate all the factors that might have an effect on psychological development and changes. With "ban bossy", so the evidence shows that girls' interest in holding leadership positions declines during later childhood years. Is that actually the result of being called bossy and other societal factors? How could you prove that? There are all kinds of changes that we know for a fact happen in the brain during that time, including structural changes. The neural networks that form are demonstrably very different between boys and girls and the importance the body gives to developing different areas of the brain is different.
There isn't really a way to see if those changes are biological or societal, tho, without finding several hundred feral children who have had no interaction with any society, human or animal, or with each other (which could form a makeshift society) and comparing their brains to everyone else's. Clearly, isolating children from every other living thing isn't ethical (which is why it's called the forbidden experiment), so there's no way of knowing if it actually is societal pressure changing girls' brains.
I'm not saying that feminism has never done anything good, or that women have never had/do not ever have problems. I'm saying the specific things that modern Western "feminists" campaign against are not a real widespread problem in the modern west, and they're not doing anything for women in other countries where women really ARE having problems; they don't even seem to be aware of the problems of women in other countries.
The modern feminist complaint about "rape culture" in America for example. If a comedian makes a joke about raping a woman, you better believe that's going to be his last job ever. Even men accused of rape by women are believed guilty, and sometimes nothing can prove them innocent, not even a million types of evidence that the woman was lying. (As in this case:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/u-va-fraternity-to-rebut-claims-of-gang-rape-in-rolling-stone/2014/12/05/5fa5f7d2-7c91-11e4-84d4-7c896b90abdc_story.html) But you know what a comedian can joke about? What's the one joke you hear about prisons? "Don't drop the soap." That's a rape joke, about male on male rape. And it's perfectly acceptable. And have you seen how culture treats a man accusing a woman of rape, vs. a woman accusing a man of rape?
Yes, rape does happen. And yes, only an estimated 2-8% of the reports are fabricated. Women are not being systematically silenced about their sexual abuse and forced to endure shame and systematic minimizing of the abuse in western countries OUTSIDE OF RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS. And that's the one place where the modern western feminists aren't bothering to care about. They care about the workplace, they care about bars, they care about schools, they care about video games, they care about internet forums, but they don't care about mosques, synagogues, and churches. And women aren't the only ones being abused in those places (remember the altar boys?), and men aren't the only ones doing the abuse.
Similarly pedophilia isn't just a women's problem, and it isn't just men doing it, same with incest, stalking, and sexual harassment. Yes, there are men who rape. There are women who have been raped. But there are also women who rape, and men who have been raped. In fact one of the big turning points for me was when I was talking to a religious authority figure I thought would be sympathetic about how my mother sexually abused me, and then heard my mother say from the other room "I NEVER DID THAT!" And the woman I was talking to said that nothing I was describing mattered, because it wasn't "real" sexual abuse anyway. That was the moment I realized that I was never going to get help within institutionalized religion, and that because it was female-on-female, no one cared.
So the real sex abuse problem isn't that society is teaching men to be rapists or covering up rape. Religion is doing that, not society, and men and women both suffer from abuse by both men and women. We need to be teaching *all people* the importance of consent and consenting. Getting rid of rape isn't as simple as "teach men not to rape." It's not like men are going to a special rape arts and combined inhumanities university.
I just want to express how sorry I feel when I see my fellow men treating you women in the ways we do. It's really horrible and offensive. Obviously its not JUST Muslims, that beat oppress and grossly misunderstand their women ,there are horrible men everywhere, but having read the Koran, its very very clear, that women are regarded as objects and worse.
Women are not "their women". Women don't belong to men, not to husbands, not to fathers, not to boyfriends, not to anyone. Women need to be seen as in charge of their own sexuality. When something like spousal rape happens, it needs to be seen not as an abuse of the authority a man has over his woman, but as curtailing and downplaying of the woman's right to consent and autonomous sexuality. Everyone needs to be understood as responsible for their own sexuality, with the ability to give or withhold consent, and have that autonomy recognized and abided by. Then no one will be viewed as worthless outside their value as a sex object.
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