For example; what percentage of people today (let's limit it to the Farang world, the West, because that seems to me where feminism seems to concentrate its efforts) differ in how they value human life based on the sex of the living being? How much of this can we change in this generation? By extension from that, how many generations will it change to effect it generally?
In the Western world, I think 80% of people would say they believe both sexes are just as important, but I think 80% of people behave as if they subconsciously strongly believe women are less important. This is especially apparent in meetings. How much can we change? All of it in one generation, if everybody simultaneously stopped teaching their children these behaviours. As it is I would reckon between five and fifteen generations, as long as nothing disastrous happens e.g. the far right invents a mind control ray.
Why do you think feminism concentrates its efforts in the West? I think the opposite is true, that feminists currently make most effort and most progress in the poorest countries, especially in South Asia and some parts of Africa, where there is most obvious need for change and more unhappiness to fuel action.
I think feminism concentrates its efforts in the Farang world, in the West, because I've never seen anyone seriously propose invading Saudi Arabia; nor Pakistan; nor the Sudan because of their horrendous records on women's, and human, rights, and I think such a proposal would be very important to any women's movement that wanted to show an interest in that part of the world.
There are better ways of doing it than to launch an invasion with guns blazing! The women who live in these countries are by far the people making the strongest effort toward sexual equality. UNFPA and other organisations are carrying out the quiet revolution against these injustices, by educating the population about the female body to replace the myths about "virtue" and "demons" that belie most of the mistreatment of women in the developing world. Once these women are free of their burden of continuous baby-minding and water-carrying, they effect social change themselves with alacrity.
Why do you think feminism concentrates its efforts in the West? I think the opposite is true, that feminists currently make most effort and most progress in the poorest countries, especially in South Asia and some parts of Africa, where there is most obvious need for change and more unhappiness to fuel action.
I think feminism concentrates its efforts in the Farang world, in the West, because I've never seen anyone seriously propose invading Saudi Arabia; nor Pakistan; nor the Sudan because of their horrendous records on women's, and human, rights, and I think such a proposal would be very important to any women's movement that wanted to show an interest in that part of the world.