“So why is she relevant today - when legally women are afforded almost all the same freedoms as men? When discrimination is both socially frowned upon and legally impermissible? When most people when polled agree with the idea that women should be allowed to do what they want?”
What freedom are men afforded that women are not?
I would put it to you that the problem is not so much that women are presumed to be weaker and therefore in need of protection, but that men are presumed to be absolute *monsters*, to be engaged with extreme caution, and only if necessary. The very real difference and strength between men and women only becomes applicable in the very rare circumstance in which a man actually does attack a woman.
“So why is she relevant today - when legally women are afforded almost all the same freedoms as men? When discrimination is both socially frowned upon and legally impermissible? When most people when polled agree with the idea that women should be allowed to do what they want?”
What freedom are men afforded that women are not?
I would put it to you that the problem is not so much that women are presumed to be weaker and therefore in need of protection, but that men are presumed to be absolute *monsters*, to be engaged with extreme caution, and only if necessary. The very real difference and strength between men and women only becomes applicable in the very rare circumstance in which a man actually does attack a woman.
Could I suggest you peek behind the veil of Islam….
Islam has nothing to do with this very Western issue.
Yet as Islam begins its dominance in certain Western societies ….. it’s certainly got a foothold here in the UK…