Am not a racist: But in my opinion I feel white women had it good, and women's right was out of boredom?

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Yes women couldn't do this or that, but overall your men treated you well, like royal and you had it all even if you were poor things were not so bad. Now women's rights is very good, but its not needed as so today. Like for example I seen this happen before! A women will cry out sexist when a guy looks at her.........but then she dresses like a semi slut.

Or women want to be professors, but never fight to be plumbers.
Or fight to be able to be forced in war like men were (still today)

To me its silly.

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You coudn't vote or have careers........thats not the end of the world.

I agree white women went through somethings too, BUT overall they had it good. Their men were good and made sure they were taken care of........I read American history too.

Emma....the man is not keeping me down, and who is the man? The only man I know is God....but thank you?

I have noticed though model looking women never complain about having women's right...........I saw a tv this amazing women she looked great! She was white, long blond hair, green eyes, very fit and worked as a engineer non of the men ever gave her any issues.

I brought up race because it was white women who invented it.

If women became the rulers, wouldn't that be unfair too?

The white men.........emma thats so 60's.

Today we say Bush is keeping us all down meaning all races! Emma your funny and very far out.

Mad luv was the manager male or female?

I think you all should give your men more credit, they didn't give you those jobs because they didn't want you to get hurt also on the job.

Rio.........if the army is ever short they take men by force into it....not women, shouldn't women's right fight against that?

Answer 1

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In the 1970's I lived in a rural midwestern area where most white ppl were working-class farmers or were poor farmers, some had old homes, others had mobile homes, others had no running water or indoor plumbing-they used an outhouse. I lived in a house with a coal furnace and plumbing that failed on a regular basis. I didn't see bored men and women, they worked day in and day out taking care of their farms.

When I looked for a job in the mid-1970's, I was told I couldn't apply for a number of jobs because "women don't do that, only men do". These jobs were not well-paying either. Plenty of women are still filling gender discrimination law suits, over a million Walmart female workers are suing because they were denied positions that paid a few cents more, even if they had more experience or education than the men who got the job.

I'm glad the federal government doesn't think like you do, and still has the EEOC or women would just have to accept unequal pay in spite of the Equal Pay Act of 1963. Some women don't have a choice and have to work-they're not married, they are widowed, they are divorced, so just what are these women suppose to do if you think they don't need employment or equal pay rights? And if women's pay is going to be taxed, shouldn't we have a right to vote on how it's used? I'm glad you want or have a sugar daddy, but plenty of women don't or don't want one, we'd rather pay our own way.

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Wal-Mart Class Action Gender Discrimination Case Holds:
http://www.business-marketing.com/store/…
EEOC and Sex-Based Discrimination claims (2008): EEOC resolved 24,018 sex discrimination charges in FY 2008 and recovered $109.3 million in monetary benefits for charging parties and other aggrieved individuals: http://www.eeoc.gov/types/sex.html

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You really put some thought into it, and I respect that. I did mention poor white women, but over all you guys still had it good. Womens right is no longer needed, but your info was interesting.

Answer 2

You said: "You coudn't vote or have careers........thats not the end of the world." I think they strongly disagreed on that. By the way, if you can give your opinion on a forum, it's thanks to them. Women were not taken seriously, they were not allowed to have an opinion on "serious subjects".

That's evolution: once you have your basic needs fulfilled, you want more. You want intellectual freedom. Of course, that was before the consumer society!

Answer 3

Of course it wasn't out of boredom. I was born a long time ago and I know. I remember when an employer could tell me, a qualified applicant, to take a hike because he would prefer a man. I also can remember when women were looked down at and talked about if they wanted to work outside of the home. Think about it.

Answer 4

Yeah, and I'm not racist either, but I'm tired of black people complaining about the man keeping them down.
Oh, and the reason police profile young black men, is because it's young black men who do most of the violent crimes.

The "white man"
That's what so many of the blacks say.
Whitey's keeping us down.

Answer 5

if this is about womens rights why are you including race

Fact of the matter is women would be sittin at home tending to men still if women rights movements werent started. Like keepin house clean, cooking, takin care of kids, and not working
you should be thankful for womens rights

but i agree with the last part

Answer 6

Oh come one. White Women, whether you believe it or not.
Have dealt with all undelying, and degrading forms of oppression. Obviously you are not aware of them my dear. Just educate yourself
about the world, and social issues with the female species. You
will understand it then.

Answer 7

''overall your men treated you like royal'' im quite well versed in history and that is, good sir, bullshit
theres no question here

Answer 8

Ever heard of Ida Wells? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Wells

The fight to get votes for women was for all women.

I pretty much agree with the rest of your rant.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

You're right. You're neither a racist nor a Feminist.

Answer 11

I don't think that is really a fair statement. Not all white women are middle class or well off.

There are white women in the lower socioeconomic classes, and some of them have had it just as hard as non-white women. If you go to places like Appalachia or even some of the lower income urban areas of some major cities, you'll see what I mean.

As for a case of fighting for non-traditional jobs, here's one for you:

Back in the 1960s, there were a group of women who trained to be astronauts. Nicknamed the "Mercury 13" these were all experience pilots, and they went through all of the same rigorous tests that the men did, even outpassing the men in several cases.

Yet when the Johnson Administration got wind of those tests and training, they put the kibosh on the program. On a memo to Vice-President Humprey re: the would-be women astronauts, Johnson wrote "Let's stop this now." Johnson actually told one of the women, Jerrie Cobb, that the reasons he shut down Mercury 13 was that if he allowed women to become astronauts then they would have to let racial minorities join the space program and they "just couldn't do that." There were people who testified against having women in the space program, amongst them were several of the male astronauts. Even on woman pilot, the infamous Jackie Cochran, sold out the Mercury 13. She had initially backed the program, but then later on testified that if women were put into the space program it would hurt the program and the Russians would win. Years down the road, Jerrie Cobb campaigned to go into space again along with John Glen to test the affects of space on aging people and was once agains shut out.

Also, there are women who wind up on the front lines despite being officially not allowed.

As for not having the vote, and not having careers, I think that is very important and it would most definitely be the end of the world for many people! We black women have only had the right to freely vote without harrassment for only 40 or so years, so why are you discounting it so quickly? As for careers, we black women were not availed of a variety of career opportunities until within the last 30 years. I can still remember having a guidance counselor tell me as recently as 1978 during the recession "why should someone hire YOU for a job when white men can't get jobs?" Back then black women still were routinely passed by for public contact jobs in a lot of places because of fears they'd "offend" Southern customers.

Source(s):

http://www.mercury13.com/

Answer 12

i'm sorry i don't see how this is aimed towards a white women!
but for women in general yeah! right on!

but i do agree with your question i feel that the black women has it worse off then a white women! and I'm not racist either! I work with a mixed people! and in sales i have seen the white women get the deal and the black women get passed by! it's hardly fair!
Agency's want someone white i guess! but whats sadder than that is the people who pass out the "New clients" guess who get's first dibs! yep! don't matter that you have a top seller that is black oh no give it to the 5th top seller because she is white! WTF and the manager was black too! why would he do that! so glad i don't work for that company anymore!

edit: the manager there were 3 of them.. 2 Males 1 Female all black

Answer 13

I have to disagree. Plenty of white women were poor, and you can't assume the top 10% of the country economically represents all white women. That's the upper class. Most women of all races weren't living the high life.

To be fair to the upper class women, they were in a position to think about things beyond survival mode. Maybe they were bored, maybe they were just in a strong enough position to question things while the underclass couldn't even find energy for it. Survival mode doesn't leave room for alot of improvement to your lifestyle. I'm glad they did.

Answer 14

That is one of the most ignorant things I've ever heard. We were treated well?! Sure who wants to vote or own property or be free to wear pants? That's just silly, we should have stayed like that, helpless, dependent and OPPRESSED! Of course it can be taken to extremes but if you haven't noticed there are plenty of men who still see nothing wrong with being sexist jerks. We still have to fight for equal pay and fair treatment. We still need "women's rights" advocates because the men are still the rulers.
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Yes it would be unfair if only women ruled. That's why both of us should. That is what equality is. When I go to the bar for some drinks and bring home a guy I hardly know without being called a skank that will be equality. When I can talk to my mechanic without him asking for my husband even though it's MY CAR that will be equality. When I can have a job and not worry that I make 70 cents to the dollar of what my male co-workers make that will be equality. When there are as many women as men in politics that will be equality. When one of them is elected as president and then another and another and another that will be equality. Finally, when all of this happens and we no longer even have to make the distinction of sex where it is not relevant THAT will be equality. AND THAT IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR.

Answer 15

rights for anyone, do not come from boredom but are born out of protest against oppression.

Oppression is when another has the upper hand over another, has power in someway deemed important over another.

Woman were very oppressed not long ago. I think there are alot of misconceptions on how bad woman of all colors were oppressed.

Its all stems from issues of power, internal and external.
For example, in the past, woman could not read books? Knowledge is power, and by not allowing woman to read, or vote, they do not have the power to change their decisions based on the truth and reality of the situation.

If you keep a person from knowing that he/she is a prisoner, they will never think about what freedom is. Society does this by always teaching the people that there are authoritues we must listen to, because they are right and we are wrong. If a woman is under the authority of her husband because she has been taught that he is the authority, and she must trust him, she is subject to all kinds of limitations put on her true potential. It goes for any human being from any culture, ethnic backround, race, religion.

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Sociology student, psychology student

Answer 16

Not all white women were treated like royalty. There were plenty of poor white women who always had to work for a living, and probably worked as hard as black slave women did (though without any of the indignities and humilations that were heaped on slave women).

I agree that the middle class white women who were the instigators of the movement would generally have been pretty comfortably off, but even middle-class women could be disadvantaged in say, a case where their husbands abandoned them, or divorced them and claimed custody of the children. giving women equal legal rights with men was, I think a good thing.

What I do find amusing is the modern obsession with work as the be-all and end-all of life, and the assumption that being at home with the children is a fate worse than death (as some replies to your question suggest). For women who had been slaves in the USA, one of the great things about being free was that many of them were able to stay at home with their children, instead of having to labor all day in the fields.

Nowadays, in our strange reverse culture, the assumption is that we should all be like slave women, toiling endlessly.

Answer 17

I'm not going to suggest that white women had it worst of all; that would be complete bull. But being treated like royalty by their husbands meant nothing when they couldn't vote and were shamed from having careers.

"Or women want to be professors, but never fight to be plumbers." I can think of at least three stories of women suing for the right to be allowed into blue-collar jobs.

"Or fight to be able to be forced in war like men were (still today)" So? Women become soldiers for the same reasons men become soldiers: either economic considerations make other jobs impossible, or they want to fight for their country.

EDIT: Children and adults who are not of sound mind or body need to be taken care of. Healthy adult women don't.

EDIT: Frankly, no. Not many of us are comfortable with Selective Service, but if the war in question is that serious, women with the necessary ability should be included, too. And it's not the place of men to tell women how to avoid getting hurt. We're not children.