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Feminism In History

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Feminism: throughout history, women have fought for their rights, and have succeeded in obtaining them: but what are they fighting for now? Now that they’re in America, this paper is going to go over these points and how they are false and may negatively impact future generations. Beginning with what is most likely the most impressive accomplishment achieved by feminists. The first wave of feminism went on for around one hundred years. In this time they fought a long campaign and on August 26, 1920, the nineteenth amendment to the constitution (women’s suffrage). This was a momentous moment for women in American history.his is when women began to become equal to men, and many men feared this. Around the time of world war two then next …show more content…

People think that women dressing certain ways is “rape culture”, or that blaming the victim of rape promotes rape culture, who blames the victim? There is a case of a Pennsylvania woman being blamed for her own rape she worked at a prison and was raped by an inmate Omar best for twenty-seven minutes ( Sara Ganim).They bring up a point that not believing rape claims supports this so-called “rape culture” then the problem with that is so much as a sexually explicit joke now could be considered rape or “rape culture” that is utterly ridiculous, so a stand up comic is a rapist? This is beyond simple thoughts as well at this point it is fact, people have deconstructed a very serious, immoral, and disgusting act and turned it into something you can do to someone over the phone, or perhaps someone can overhear a conversation and they were raped that …show more content…

The reason for this is that was set up during a time in which men and women where not equal in the eyes of the law and didn't have equal rights, now that equal rights have been established.. Why are they not required to do something like the draft when men can be placed in jail for if they receive the same benefits as a woman that doesn't have to sign up for the draft (selective service). This brings up the argument of why do feminists not fight for this, and only take the “good” of equal rights. It's reminiscent of a child getting their first pet, but won't accept the responsibilities of ownership. Perhaps there should be a movement for this how many feminists truly believe in the “equal rights” they scream about, equal meaning the same as something else, but in this case it doesn't seem that equal. How will younger males react to this? Knowing that one day they may be forced into a combat situations that they wanted no part of, while there are women who protest and say that men and women are equals or men are above them, when they don't have a possible call to arms at any given notice on their

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