To summarize: America is like 50 years behind culturally rhe rest of the civilized world. They already got the social issues we are currently dealing with sorted out
Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
the sexual revolution took place in the 60s/70s, partly due to invention of the contraceptive pill, which became available to unmarried women in 1967. homosexuality was partially decriminalized in 1967. abortion was legalized. no fault divorce was introduced.
it was the biggest social movement of their lives, perhaps started by women joining the workforce for world war II.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
note the items i listed were for the UK. Americas stances on them are devolving.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It was ABSOLUTELY started by women joining the workforce due to WWII.
I like to make a joke how Hitler was the biggest driving force in the feminist movement. Not because I support Hitler, and not because I’m anti-feminist.
I do it because it amuses me so much to say a wild and absurd claim like that, where womens feminists movements happened because of Hitler, and then watch their faces when I explain in a calm voice, with logic and reason, that there is a legitimate explaination for how all of womens progressive movements happened because of the most evil man in modern history.
I make sure to carefully tiptoe around saying that HE was a feminist. He was not. I never claim that. But by making THE LISTENER frame it in their own mind that way, and then explaining facts and truths, their faces contort trying to find the flaw. It’s great.
Again, not pro-hitler, not anti-feminism. Just very much pro-trolling chaos.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
And it’s bullshit, woman’s suffrage, a global phenomenon started long before Hitler was born.
And it ignores all the women who worked during WW1.
callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Pull the stick out? I love history and thought of what you said as well and those women ARE remembered, but for a fleeting forgettable moment in a lemmy forum, even I had a laugh.
Hansie211@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Haha, suffrage. Not suffering
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s a very abrahamic religious centric view. No fault divorce existed in the latter Roman empire, and was in certain Norse communities and other “pagan”/heathen societies the world over.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He said suffrage not women suffering. Lol Jesus. Look it up in an encyclopedia.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
To make your little prank more airtight you should say “driving force behind the feminist movement,” not “in the feminist movement,” because he was not in the feminist movement.