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Originally Posted by rozalia qual  i also don't understand how women's rights on a global level are relevant in a UNITED STATES election? it's awful the way some countries treat their women, but this is the US, where violent racism still exists within our borders and men who beat women are socially demonized and can expect jail time for it.
just two weeks ago in my city a white kid drove through a black neighborhood and shot people from his car, openly stating that he hates black people. fuck. |
And just a couple weeks ago, a black man murdered five women (would have been six if he was a better shot) in a Lane Bryant store outside Chicago. I'm sure he just happened on a woman's clothing store and didn't target it on a Saturday morning just after business opened.
Thousands and thousands of American women are raped every year. Sexism is dead because you perceive wife beaters to be "socially demonized"?? I would ask, why do we live in a culture where violence against women continues to be such a fixture of social relations?
Domestic violence is an epidemic, and it's usually perpetrated on women. Just because it is illegal doesn't mean it isn't continuous and that we aren't desensitized to it.
The base logic behind racism and sexism is ultimately the same, even if they are manifest in different ways in society. Both have been factors in this campaign and sexism is, as usual, the one that is most easily explained away and denied. By women as well as men, of course. Surprise!
Following your argument, why should the U.S. care about any ethnic conflicts in other countries? Weren't you just expressing your dismay about the conflicts between Serbs and other ethnic groups? I mean, why should we give a fuck here, then? Should foreign policy and international relations have nothing to do with lived human experience, and instead focus solely on "national security" and economic considerations, as realists suggest?
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