- There are fewer women in the world because more girls are discriminated to death than all the people killed in all the battlefields in the 20th century.
- When you educate a boy, he has slightly fewer children.
- When you educate a girl, she has significantly fewer children.
- When you don't use women as part of the solution you not using all the solution resources you can.
- 80 000 slaves were transported to the new world, 800 000 women are trafficked across borders.
Flashback Friday, a column on feminist notions ... To be fair - it's difficult to think of a non-self-defining feminist woman as anything but a tool of the patriarchy. I have to concentrate on the fact that even though a woman would not call herself a feminist, she would never endorse footbinding (to name a radical example) and it doesn't necessarily mean she is a doormat either. In fact, some of my favorite women scorn my feminism and hate it when they are judged solely on their marital status or gender. Ironically if you look at films made during the so-called liberal 60s and 70s you will see that movies align the woman's role less to what is happening politically in the big wide world and more to what is happening in pornography. The rise of the snuff movie mirrored the rise of violence towards women in the movies, serial killer paradise. Pornography always centers on the woman - probably in an attempt to hide the size of the penis. From my perspective, I am less un...
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