Quote (sylvannos @ Apr 25 2017 12:16pm)
So back when my aunt was pregnant with my oldest cousin, she got fired from her job as a bank teller "because customers won't think you're sexy anymore and we might lose business."
While the women of first wave feminism secured the rights of women to vote and enter the workplace, the second wave made those conditions better. Today, my aunt wouldn't have gotten fired for being pregnant...quite the opposite! And that's thanks to the second wave who pushed for equality in the workplace and an end to sexual harassment.
However, the situation my aunt was in isn't universal to all women. Securing the right to not lose your job because you're pregnant is at the bottom of the list for other women's groups, like homosexual couples. Lesbians in the second wave were left out of this discussion over maternity rights. They didn't even have the rights to pregnancy in the first place. There wasn't artificial insemination. They were banned from adopting. And because most jobs were for men as a means to be the breadwinners, a lesbian couple didn't have the income to support a family. The idea of maternity leave is so foreign it's not applicable.
This was the problem with second wave feminism. It existed largely for middle and upper class, heterosexual, cisgender, WASP women and no one else. Trans women, intersex women, black women, poor women, Asian women, Latinas, Jewish women, lesbian women, bisexual women, etc. etc. and so on and so forth were all left out of the conversation.
Intersectionality is the way we're correcting the problems faced by women who lack privileges in other areas and were left out of the second wave. A lot of the strides made in the first and second wave were things that only applied to women who had careers, education, and a healthy family. It goes back to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. People need to satisfy the basics before they can begin to satisfy their esteem and reach self-actualization.
You don't exactly benefit from offices being free of sexual harassment if you're afraid someone will rape and murder you outside your appartment.
Being scared of this in 2017 in the United States is just hysteria.
Violent crime has fallen 50% or higher since 1990 and in regards to rape, this is with the suspicion that rape was not as often reported as it was in the past which means the reduction in rape has fallen even farther than what has been recorded.
Other than accidental death and death to risk factors such as heart disease and smoking etc , you're more likely to die from you killing yourself than someone else killing you.
I mean I'm on board on the idea inequality needs to be corrected but you don't do any service with statements like that cause it does not mimic reality.
This post was edited by sir_lance_bb on Apr 25 2017 11:50am
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