Comments on: Women’s Rights: All We Take for Granted

By: Chassidy

Chassidy — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:19:44 +0000

Infmroation is power and now I’m a !@#$ing dictator.

By: Clippy

Clippy — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:31:15 +0000

I am proud to be related to both (but descended from neither) Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. They were contemporaries and outspoken allies in the movement supporting women’s rights. When we think of these two remarkable women the issue of women’s right to vote comes to mind, but it was more than that, including women’s right to own property, oversee her own finances, control her reproductive rights, and make a decent wage. Both women would be thrilled with the many progressive steps women have made, but frustrated that women’s earning power in the US still lags and women in some parts of the world have no more rights than did the black slaves of their time. Both women were also friends and contemporaries of the great Frederick Douglass, women’s rights having many themes in common with the issues of slavery.

By: tinatessina

tinatessina — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:10:00 +0000

Lovely post. I, too, have been long concerned with the plight of women, focusing mostly on our own country, where women are still abused and disempowered daily. I thought the male terror you write about was obvious in the hearings of Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor. I’m fortunate enough to be married to an enlightened man, and know many others, but the ones who seem to need the power are the scared ones. I loved the connection you made between that fear and the rejection of love stories. thank you.

By: sheila316

sheila316 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:54:32 +0000

When you think of these freedoms remember NOW, the organization that continues to fight for rights for women. Young women need to get active and continue the battle and not take the rights they have for granted as they could all be swept away with a bad vote in Congress.

By: Catlady3

Catlady3 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:39:40 +0000

As a woman, I’m incredibly grateful for the freedom that living in the U.S. affords me. As a student of history, I must point out that freedom for women in the U.S. and other Western countries hasn’t been around that long. In the U.S., a law was passed after the Civil War that gave women the right to make decisions about the property they brought to a marriage.
Prior to that, marriage meant that the woman’s possessions were the property of her husband and could be disposed of as he saw fit. I wish I knew the answer for other countries and cultures. I would think that promoting law and justice for all in these countries should be an ideal.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:49:33 +0000

Romance novels were never my cup of tea, but this gives me a new view of them that I had never considered before.

All too often people “romanticize” life in non-Westernized nations. They play up the music, art, clothing, history, “tribal spirit” or whatever other aspect of the culture they want, and either downplay or completely ignore the brutality such cultures execute against women. It’s considered the height of evil imperialism to suggest that such cultures should embrace any Western ideals. Western society is not perfect, nor does it have all the answers, but it sure is doing a heck of a lot better at taking care of women!

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:06:39 +0000

Links?